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...masturbatory tendencies of one’s deepest thoughts reach the point when they are freely allowed to rear their head in real life, you can be certain of two things. One, you’re crazy. And two, you might just end up being a pretty successful rap star (cf. Kanye). But not long into “Gimme That,” it becomes sorrowfully clear that self-centeredness à la Mr. West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed...
...kill my whole family.” It’s been disheartening to see the Ice Cube persona (if not the man himself) emasculated, sanitized, and dismantled over the last ten years in third-rate family films. After a decent comeback album in 2006, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It”—the lead single for O’Shea Jackson’s 2008 album “Raw Footage”—serves as a promise to hardcore headz that he is, in fact, true to the game...
...different era, the night of September 14, 2007 on Boston’s Lansdowne Street might have felt more like a rumble between the Jets and Sharks. Or maybe a meeting of rap rivals like Nas and Jay-Z, or LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee, or—well, insert your favorite beef here. A little after midnight that evening, a crowd from the Yankees-Red Sox game belched out of Fenway Park. Whether the game had finished, who had won or lost—I did not know the answers to these questions, and still...
...Come on,” says former Pussy Cat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. “Let me in. I can be a dame. Won’t blow the whistle. Get you cheesed.” Cue music, dance sequence. Seems like a good beginning to a rap video, no? The Bonnie and Clyde homage has worked before—remember Jay-Z and Beyoncé back in ’03? While “Scream”—the video for the fifth single off Tim’s 2007 album “Shock Value...
...Perhaps the strangest thing about Rudy's collapse was the candidate himself. The rap on Rudy was always that he was a successful mayor but a nasty man; the critics never understood that his nastiness helped make him a successful mayor. He never spent much time worrying whether reporters or interest groups or The People loved him. ("If people like my personality, thank you," he fumed to a room full of reporters the first time I saw him in action. "If you don't, I really don't care.") He wanted a city that worked, and he pursued that goal...