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...Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat," wrote Robert Frost. Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...
...actually liberating: "I don't find it an inhibition; the interesting part of the policy is that the more I scientifically measure up the ground that's available, the more ideas strike me about what one can do. It's rather like having a limited number of lines and rhyme schemes when you write a sonnet: it doesn't restrict your ideas, it concentrates you ideas and in fact I think improves on some of your thinking because of the restriction that appears to be there...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
...These guys from the street carry guns andknives all the time," a police official said."There is no rhyme or reason really...
...General appeals to their sympathy as fellow orphans--the pirates' well-known weak spot. Torbay, decked in britches, cape and sideburns, is the quintessential G&S nobleman, lovable and powerless. His skillful voice and comic ability shine in a song describing the Major General's impractical knowledge recounted in rhyme...