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...just plain old bad. Probably a bit of both, says Kenny. "They are the newest in the professional world, so they are still learning the professional lessons of integrity and quality," she says. "Sometimes they can only be learned the hard way." (Read "Does Office Romance Get a Bad Rap...
...video. During the requisite money raining scene, Foxx actually puts the bills into his pocket as if to say, “Gee, this economy isn’t conducive to the gangsta lifestyle anymore.” And he has to be making fun of the rap genre in those scenes where he is dancing with a set of back-up dancers wearing matching hideous sequined tracksuits. It’s alright though if he doesn’t care for rap culture all that much. He seems to have more fun hanging out with movie stars anyway...
...this album, a project five years in the making that features close to 40 artists in often unlikely match-ups. “Gifted,” the lead single, is the clear standout—maybe it’s just nice to remember that Kanye can actually rap. A verse that outshines most of “808s and Heartbreak,” alongside the nasal voice of Santogold, cuts the sweetness of Lykke Li in a deceptively catchy hook: “So knock me out and shoot me down / With mics in hand, we?...
Bleak. That's always been the rap against American novelist Richard Yates. Though he has been celebrated as a writer's writer and a consummate craftsman since his death in 1992, even his admirers found his work depressing. Fellow novelist Carolyn See explained it in 1981: "He's not going to get the recognition he truly deserves because to read Yates is as painful as getting all your teeth filed down to the gum with no anesthetic." Joyce Carol Oates agreed, writing in the Nation, "A sad, gray, deathly world - dreams without substance - aging without maturity; this is Yates' world...
...secondary project concerns Shakespeare’s rap songs. One gem, obviously inspired by Shakespeare’s contemporary, notorious rhymester DJ Time, flows: “And nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defense / Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.” My work in this field will be focused on unearthing the historical origins and literary manifestations of the feud between the DJ and the flow doctor...