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Word: slippin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TOUGHER THAN LEATHER (Profile). Rappers supreme, slippin' closer to the old mainstream. Music still struts, though, and the braggadocious lyrics can be smart and funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 13, 1988 | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...seemed possessed of darkling forces. A chimney-high pompadour. Eye shadow, for God's sake, in 1956. Piano-jumping, speaker-climbing stunts onstage, along with dancing that was camp enough to get anyone busted in a back alley. Songs that sounded like nonsense (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Slippin 'and Slidin ') but whose beat seemed to hint of unearthly pleasures centered somewhere between the gut and the gutter. Ooh! My soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing in the Outer Darkness | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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