Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartmouth choir took the stage and launched into its first song, the audience began clapping along, tapping its feet, and calling...
...Dartmouth choir took the stage and launched into its first song, the audience began clapping along, tapping its feet, and calling...
NAME: Rosa ("Bus-ta") Parks OCCUPATION: Civil rights elder stateswoman AGE: 85 BEST PUNCH: Claims OutKast exploited her by using her name without permission for a song titled Rosa Parks. Though her name was used only for the song's title, not its lyrics, Parks is asking for it to be removed from all OutKast products...
NAME: OutKast, the "OutKlassed" OCCUPATION: Upstart rappers AGES: 23 (Dre); 24 (Boi) BEST PUNCH: The duo, Dre and Big Boi, say the song (sample lyrics: "Ah ha, hush that fuss/ Everybody move to the back of the bus") is an homage to Parks, and the group's record company is standing by its "right to creative expression...
...best songs on the album is Ghetto Prisoners, a stirring call for the poor and downtrodden to stand up and resist the powers that keep them down. "Get up/ Wake up/ Rise," raps Nas. Another sharply realized song is Undying Love, a violent tale of a man who kills his cheating lover and then himself. Other, less talented rappers might have turned the song into something venomous and exploitative. Nas' rendering of this bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying...