Word: rapping
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...airs shows about potbellied guys over 35. At CBS's presentation, Moonves gets to tell advertisers that they're crazy to focus on viewers under 35. At UPN, he tells them that's exactly what they want to be doing. He also gets to say things like - referring to rap star Eve, who has a sitcom on the new schedule -"Her new show is going to be off the hizzle...
Rehearsal is upbeat. In the third hour, the cast is still adding new lines to the script (“Have you heard about the vegetarian knight? He likes war and peas.”) and trying out different rap poses...
...fussed over, but they're also full of surprising grooves and are primed for club play. It's the vocals that could use a remix. Like Laurence Fishburne's oddball Morpheus in The Matrix, Madonna tries to accentuate the plight of humanity by enunciating like a robot. Her mechanical rap at the end of the first single, American Life--"I'm drinking a soy latte/I get a double shote/It goes right through my body/And you know I'm satisfied"--may be ironic, but it's also thoroughly annoying. There are a couple of other techno dogs, most notably Die Another...
...Most rap is violent these days,” says Hurd. “They just rap about stuff that’s not violent...
Power strikes a balance between Jurassic’s signature old-school party sound and so-called “conscious rap.” The result is juxtapositions like 2na’s couplet, “Some of you like the way my words caress tracks / While some of these politicians secretly suppress facts...