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While figurative lyrical flourishes were once treated as mere embellishments on relatively representational rhymes with concrete subjects, today’s avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
While figurative lyrical flourishes were once treated as mere embellishments on relatively representational rhymes with concrete subjects, today’s avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
Instead of unfairly reproaching student groups for the speakers they choose to bring to campus, it would be more encouraging for the sake of bringing awareness to the issue if student groups offended by the panel sought out speakers to come present their side. In the name of academia, this should be expected...
...crowds can form." Another district aide says, "The leaders are nervous. They are doing everything to stop protests from happening again." The strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake of the city's stability. This time around, officials in China's financial capital can only hope the crackdown will compel its citizens to get back to business as usual...
...sake of argument, let’s all be literalists for a moment...