Word: rappings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COOLIO Gangsta's Paradise wins rap award with antiviolence plea, repeated in hip acceptance...
...trend comes to a halt with the release of his ambitious new album, All Eyez on Me--the first double album in rap history. A year ago, Shakur was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan; now, thanks to recent court decisions that allowed him to be freed while he appeals his conviction, he's out on $1.4 million bail, and he's angrier than ever. As the title of his highly anticipated album brags, all eyes are indeed on him--and it's not a pretty sight...
Shakur is fiercely talented. He has an ear for tough-but-sweet tunes, an ability to write colloquially eloquent lyrics, and a husky, passionate delivery when he raps. The white power structure he denounces so vehemently must enjoy seeing him squander his gifts reifying its stereotypes of blackness--that is, if the white power structure thinks about him much at all. By leaving the lockup for the world of gangsta rap, he's just entered another prison...
Playing his funky square guitar, the seated Diddley led his band through rockabilly, Motown, and delta blues numbers with occasional Carribean and rap infusions. The mostly danceable tunes were as quirky and fun as his guitar solos. There was none of the guitar-hero intensity of the likes of Buddy Guy; Mr. Diddley had little to prove. His authentic down-home blues riffs came simply and naturally, projecting an expressive but hey-let's-just-have-some-fun attitude...
Jeanne Calment, 121, isn't just the world's oldest living human. She's the world's oldest rapper. The acquaintance of Van Gogh has cut a record, Maitresse du Temps, in which she talks about her life over rap, techno and dance music. Some of the proceeds from the CD will go toward buying a minibus for her nursing home. Next up for Calment is, of course, a video...