Word: rapping
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...When I read the script, I just liked the script. I thought it was an interesting story—the little train that could. I was attracted to the fact that it was about the spoken word. Dominant aspects of our culture now are hip hop, rap, and poetry.” He goes on to praise the script, which he read for the first time over three years ago, for containing the three basic elements that every great movie requires: “It made you laugh, it made you cry, and it made you cheer...
...Solution.” And even though Sigel has been around for over a decade, we may not ever be ready for him. Sigel, who repeatedly touts himself as an “ignorant nigga,” doesn’t subscribe to the rap legacy of say, his long time friend Jay-Z, who intricately combines intelligent metaphors with impeccable flow. Beanie opts instead for hard-hitting, realistic lyrics with a pretty flat delivery that, at its best, sounds like Hova’s more mediocre stuff. At its worst, Beanie’s flow doesn?...
...music scene: David Guetta and Bob Sinclar both released international hit songs this year, albeit with Anglo-Saxon singers. Over the past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...
Between working on a book about underground rap battles in Los Angeles, founding the Hiphop Archive, and playing out her own East Coast/West Coast rivalry, Stanford professor Marcyliena Morgan may just be too legit to quit. After ditching Harvard for California when then-President Lawrence H. Summers denied her tenure, Professor Morgan is due back in Cambridge this January as a tenured professor. FM chatted with Morgan by phone about Ebonics, sexual innuendo, and the future of Hiphop. 1.Fifteen Minutes: You’ve been called the “hip-hop” professor. Harvard isn?...
...Ironically, Whitlock disproves his argument with his own words. His theory concerning the detrimental effects of hip-hop is based on the premise that the behaviors follow the music. But any sensible person sees the endogeneity problem. The existence of rap music can be explained by the prevalence of the behaviors it glorifies. It may sound like a chicken and egg problem, but in this case, the causation is actually pretty clear. Misogyny, violence, and crime have all been endemic to and glorified in America since long before rap music ever existed. Specifically, the rise of the lucrative crack-cocaine...