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...most ambitious new CDs is the Roots' Things Fall Apart (named after the book by the Nigerian Nobel laureate Chinua Achebe). The CD features live instrumentation, lyrics suitable for a poetry slam and a cameo from Erykah Badu. Roots drummer Ahmir hopes, in the future, the more creative wing of performers in hip-hop will form a support network. "There are some people in hip-hop that care about leaving a mark," he says. "There are some of us that look at Innervisions as a benchmark, or Blood on the Tracks or Blue or Purple Rain. Leaving a mark...
...also over in Washington, where the trial of the president began yesterday. There is no suspense surrounding the trial, whether or not witnesses are called, since everyone assumes that 67 senators will not vote to convict Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. It's a slam dunk for the White House, but in a way this game will have three winners: the president, who will hold onto his office; the Democratic Party, which has stayed or, recently, has become doggedly loyal to him: and the Republicans, who will claim that they were both high-minded in their...
...from downtown in the first half and scored 16 points in the first 20 minutes, including an authoritative slam dunk with 3:34 left before halftime that put the Big Green ahead by 10 points. Freshman point guard Flinder Boyd also hit two treys and scored 10 points in the first half...
...says he's a fan of such younger performers as Chris Whitley and Ben Harper, asks what's worth listening to in record stores these days. You recommend the new Seal album (in fact, you give him your only copy), the sound track to the hip-hop movie Slam and rapper/singer Lauryn Hill's debut album (you point out that like him, she's a Garden State resident...
...Slam were a book instead of a film, it would read like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. As the story of a gifted young black man's struggles on the streets and in the jails of Washington, D. C., the main piece of this puzzle is undoubtedly Raymond Joshua. The film poses some fabulous questions. Can a man be justified in selling drugs if he has to support his family in the projects? Who is to blame for the overpopulation of young black men in America's jails today? The point that this film tries to drive home is that...