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...Hate the Game” with the real Nas and Marsha from Floetry, he reflects on the feud with 50 and backtracks on the Pac comparison: “He ain’t B.I.G. and I ain’t Pac, and we just eatin’ off rap...
...Geto Boys “Gangsta Boogie” sample to create a track that runs over your face like all the others are supposed to. This track proves that the Black Eyed Peas frontman, who effortlessly spits the gangsta-homage hook, would might be considered a great rap artist if he weren’t responsible for Fergie. On “Compton,” and to a lesser extent on the Public Enemy-jacking “Remedy,” Game transcends his obsessions with the Good Doctor and label politics and creates an organic, vivid...
...painstaking counterpoint of Yo La Tengo’s score for recent indie showpiece “Old Joy.”Video games are much the same, and what many are ignoring is that they have been for years.In contrast to the blaring heavy-metal, pop punk, and rap lineups of such popular series as “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater,” “Grand Theft Auto,” and “NBA Jam,” more sophisticated games have long relied on soundtrack music for subtle mood manipulations...
...damn. As the survivor of a life-threatening car wreck (he recorded his vocals for the song Through the Wire with his jaw wired shut), West isn't really anticollege so much as drunk on live-life-now narcissism. He uses most of Dropout, winner of the Best Rap Album prize, to congratulate himself for doing the work it took to become a star and berating the chumps who buy into a system that he believes slowly deprives them of their dreams. There are moments when West is as funny (and as petulant) as Eminem, but as his choir sings...
Even with extended skits and lots of filler, West's debut stands as the smartest, funniest and most important rap album of the new century. The pink-Polo-wearing son of an ex--Black Panther and a college English professor, West wasn't the first to bring a buppie sensibility to hip-hop, but he infused Jesus Walks, All Falls Down and Never Let Me Down (which featured a tremendous guest verse from his mentor and record-company president, Jay-Z) with wit, intelligence and, most of all, complexity...