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Park, 33, will bring his indie-folk stylings to Cambridge on April 18 at Tercentenary Theatre, rounding out the rap of Kid Cudi, whose act was reported by The Crimson on Monday...
...Battle of the Sexes” are few and far between on the album. Perhaps this is because, for Ludacris, the words “sex” and “relationship” are effectively synonymous. The militant introductory song seems to promise a rap battle between Ludacris and female rappers addressing gender issues, but the album does not deliver. Perhaps “My Chick Bad” might be intended to be a shot in favor of women since it is somewhat complimentary to the fairer sex—“My chick bad / Better...
...Concrete Seduction,” is heavily auto-tuned with some special effects scattered in for good measure. It shows a continuous party throughout the House. A gorilla and wizard roam the halls, opening the doors to reveal rooms filled with dancing Matherites. In the final rap, an unsuspecting first-year succumbs to the “concrete seduction,” as the featured vocalists verbally batter the other Houses—“Cabot sucks and Dunster swallows / Jerkland blows and Adams follows...
Indeed, the line between lyrics and music is blurred throughout “Plastic Beach.” In their departure from rap and its focus on language, in search of a new, more sonic form of musical expression, Gorillaz have made their music and lyrics blend to form what is often no more than raw sound. An appropriate decision—after all, what could speak the language of plastics and machines better than pure noise...
...discussion—which centered around a draft of one of Young’s papers titled “Black Ops and Sleeper Cells: Race, the War on Terror and Popular Culture from Above and Below”—explored how rap music and television shows such as “The Unit” and “Sleeper Cells” manifest changing popular conceptions of blackness and how the media can influence such race issues...