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...musical scenes. Back in those early days of block parties, b-boys and b-girls, the early focus on DJs like Grandmaster Flash and Kool DJ Herc gave way to a more producer-centric organization as hip-hop started to have a commercial life beyond the South Bronx. As rap radio shows and records soared in popularity, Marley Marl became the archetype of the champion beatmaker for the “Juice Crew” of rappers centered on the Queensbridge projects. Ever since, from Dr. Dre to Organized Noize, Timbaland to the Neptunes, hip-hop producers have often been...
...video, like the track, is not particularly original. Just as the song recycles the lyrics of wildly successful tracks including “Snap Yo Fingers” and “Walk it Out,” the video is replete with the apparent prerequisites for any commercial rap video: darkly-lit shots of a club where beautiful women dance around the singer, with money raining down and Cristal in the cups...
...just as the song is an undeniably catchy fusion of pure pop-rap-bubblegum ridiculousness (the phrase “I’m gonna buy u a drank” has never sounded so smooth), the music video too achieves success. There’s one particularly memorable image where, as T-Pain sings “I got money in the bank,” money appears on-screen, dripping with liquor. No longer are money and dranks separate considerations; in T-Pain’s world, you have money-dranks. In the ultimate display of making...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night. The battle was like “American Idol” but with a hell of a lot more street cred. Six contestants took part in the veritable verbal skirmishes before an excitable crowd in three rounds. The contestants went head-to-head exchanging heated personal attacks...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night...