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...Slug of hip-hop group Atmosphere wants to change the world...
Easily among the boldest and most refreshing voices in the underground, Slug, who performed at the Middle East last Friday, is helping to push independent hip hop firmly into the public consciousness. The renaissance at the fringes has been winning over critics and fans alike, ranging from the lo-fi sampler virtuosity of Madlib and MF Doom and seething electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations...
He’s far from gangsta infamy—but to tens of thousands, Slug is already a hero. It’s perhaps indicative of the current hip-hop climate that so many youths have latched onto his brand of reflective lyricism. While most mainstream and independent emcees seem perennially obsessed with the exterior—be it ice, skills, intelligence, or hip-hop itself—Slug raps about what eats at him inside. Check “Shrapnel” from the new Atmosphere album, God Loves Ugly: “Check your mail, climb your...
Atmosphere’s hip hop looks past hollow braggadocio, reviving the music’s original impulse to reach out rather than push back. Slug sees no future in battle rhymes: “You can’t feed your kids with a battle rap. You can make your kids think you’re the dopest battle rapper in the world, but you can’t feed them.” Instead, he aligns himself with conscious emcees KRS-One and Chuck D, as well as songwriters like Tom Waits and Stevie Wonder...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...