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...this was supposed to be a rock show, and the glorious reentrance of the Flaming Lips during the bittersweet song “The Golden Age” did little to lift Beck’s spirits. During “Lord Only Knows”, a kitchy trucker rap from Odelay, Coyne lifted his arms in desperate appeal for the applause he apparently knew Beck needed. The crowd cheered loudly in loving spurts; but all attempts to make the singer say something were met only by reticent nods and waves. Beck did start to break out of his shell...
...anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately named cousin “smart rap...
Atmosphere’s hip hop looks past hollow braggadocio, reviving the music’s original impulse to reach out rather than push back. Slug sees no future in battle rhymes: “You can’t feed your kids with a battle rap. You can make your kids think you’re the dopest battle rapper in the world, but you can’t feed them.” Instead, he aligns himself with conscious emcees KRS-One and Chuck D, as well as songwriters like Tom Waits and Stevie Wonder...
Bonds, on the other hand, suffers the rap as the dark star of baseball's universe, a sullen, selfish man unloved by his teammates. Unlike Ruth, he has no adoring press and has never tried to craft a nice-guy public persona the way media masters like Michael Jordan have done. Bonds' dyspeptic relationship with reporters--he doesn't trust them, fancy that--has sent them digging for dirt...
During a reception for the outgoing department chair, Winthrop says of the absent Sanders: “And where is he today? He’s probably still working on that rap record...