Word: snapping
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...genre’s “Rapper’s Delight,” crossovers can happen in many directions, especially for a genre like reggaeton, at the crossroads of pop, hip-hop and more traditionally Latin and Caribbean music. As hip-hop turns towards bare-bones snap music and syrupy “chopped and screwed” remixes of minimal thug anthems, reggaeton offers exciting instrumentals and a beat that couldn’t be much easier to synchronize on the fly. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Marley Marl and Kool G. Rap handed...
...student, faced crowd-favorite Finkton. “Bennie Els” rapped that Finkton belonged on the basketball court. Finkton quickly responded, saying he had gotten his “[rhymes] from education” and didn’t need racist jokes to trounce his competitor. Oh snap...
...belly dancer be boring? The pair is steamy writhing on the floor, grinding up against a wall, and shaking in the rain. And the song itself isn’t half bad—“Beautiful Liar” is sure to make the dance floor snap, crackle, and pop. As Beyoncé and Shakira prove, the best way to improve a winning formula is to team up with another winner. From the slinky attire to the sultry looks, the video is right-on. “Beautiful Liar” is everything one would hope for from...
...good book can take something that seemed impenetrable and make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...trippers, who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and let it go at that, and the hard core--the mighty Uruk-hai of Tolkien fans--who have delved into The Silmarillion and grok the deep history of Middle-earth. The latter group will snap up The Children of Hrin, a "new" tale of Middle-earth cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien out of manuscripts left behind by his dad J.R.R. But there's a lot there for the weekend warrior...