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...than their debut Quality Control. Although their patent irreverence remains a major part of their work, often beginning songs with silly dialogues or injecting odd samples from movies or television shows, the content has taken a more serious turn. Veering sharply away from the well-traveled path of mainstream rap, this album has a very high proportion of tracks with fairly deep messages. “Freedom,” the second track, introduced by the 53-second first track “This is,” is a complex rap about how freedom relates to the people...
...heads.) The genius of Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibunouva/Majavi an de buguni an de buididipi"--means the same thing in Spanish as in English: nothing. The words are a gibberish homage to the opening line of the first rap song, Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight. America's familiarity with the original incomprehensible lyrics--"I said a hip hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop"--have fueled Ketchup's transatlantic voyage, while a simple six-step dance move...
DIED. JASON MIZEL, A.K.A. JAM MASTER JAY, 37, one of the forefathers of rap and turntable maestro for the iconic New York rap band Run-DMC, famous for stripping down hip-hop music and injecting it with rock, and for its storming cover of Walk This Way with Aerosmith; by gunmen in New York City. Although street violence has always haunted hip-hop, the music of Run-DMC, known as "the Beatles of Rap," never celebrated gun culture. Rather, with almost religious fervor, it preached unity and peace...
...doubts to the full impact of Slug’s work were quelled as the God Loves Ugly tour hit the Middle East. Brushing off notions that he is the rap equivalent of a whining emo boy, Slug lit the stage like a firecracker and had the hoodie-laden audience at his fingertips from the get-go. Sharing the limelight with fellow wordsmiths Blueprint and MURS (of Living Legends fame), he tore through a carefully orchestrated set of Atmosphere classics old and new, with the crowd belting out the choruses right along with him. The obligatory freestyle cypher was almost...
...album hit the streets fully-formed, charting a new direction from its predecessors. Even more rarely is the inventiveness maintained for more than a few standout tracks. What a blessing then is cocky Englishman Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, and his debut album Original Pirate Material. Blending elements of rap, spoken word, two-step garage and enough attitude to start a personal clothing line, Original Pirate Material is exactly the sort of album we’ve learned not to expect...