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...also strikingly different from her 2002 disappointment The Autograph Man, which degenerated into an artificially clever, pop-saturated riff on the anxieties of being twentysomething, and cast a shadow over her early successes. She still can't resist dotting the pages with inside references to everything from Tupac Shakur to Harold Bloom. But this time she shows greater restraint - and self-awareness. In the past, Smith's chief flaw was similar to that of Zora Belsey, Howard's ambitious daughter, a sophomore at his university, who tries too hard to show off her literary cool. Through Zora, Smith now pokes...
...first person to bring a Buppie sensibility to rap. In the '80s, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, A Tribe Called Quest and LL Cool J successfully wove suburban perspectives into rebellious music, but when gangsta rap arrived, nuance was smothered by a blanket of extreme poses. Tupac Shakur, once a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts, died with THUG LIFE tattooed across his torso. On The College Dropout, West found a way to bridge the divide without self-destruction. His follow-up, Late Registration, arrives Aug. 30 and continues to mix race and class with beats...
...33—Colby quits as campaign manager, and J. Isaac, who has officially lost his mind at this point, swears revenge on him. There’s more beef floating around than at the Shakur and Wallace families’ annual potato-sack race...
Unlike Warrick, Shakur was an early bloomer. Rated the No. 1 high school point guard in the country, Shakur attracted so much interest that Frank felt...
...senior year, he captained a team whose point guard was Mustafa Shakur, now the starter at point for Arizona, a title contender in the Chicago region. That same year, his team’s biggest rival was Germantown Academy, whose two starters were Florida star Matt Walsh and Duke regular Lee Melchionni...