Word: songfulness
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...they have an independence that is very rare in hip-hop. Stereotypes like Tupac’s reformed thug or 50 Cent’s muscled, gun-totin’, sex god aren’t characters; they’re devices a rapper can use to move a song along. Ghostface lets his characters get away from him. His stories are so exhilarating to listen to because he doesn’t seem to have complete control over them...
Just Blaze’s guitar and horns assault gives Ghostface something to yell over, and he transforms the vague “I’m better than you guys” slog into a universally potent threat. It’s a boast song that’s so good, it sounds like a diss track, and it’s the best once I can think of since Jay-Z’s “The Takeover...
...unravelling it over the last quarter of the film, letting out whatever steam might have been collected along the way. Two other misdemeanors are a) continuing the trend of crediting Ben Kingsley as “Sir” for lame action movies and b)playing a rap song over the credits that summarizes the plot, “Mighty Ducks” style...
...courtroom battle over a fruit. Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, wants Apple Computer to remove its bitten-apple logo from its iTunes music store. A lawyer for Apple Corps, which is co-owned by Paul McCartney, RINGO STARR, George Harrison's estate and Yoko Ono, downloaded a Coldplay song from iTunes to show a London judge how Apple Computer uses its logo to sell music, in violation, the lawyer said, of a 1991 agreement that it would stay out of the music business. Apple Computer's lawyer responded that "even a moron in a hurry" could distinguish between...
...tunesmith whose hits for performers from Bing Crosby to the Byrds--including You Don't Know Me and In the Misty Moonlight--made the pop or country charts some 400 times; in Mexia, Texas. She drew unequaled praise from peers (Dolly Parton said Walker had "never written a bad song"; Willie Nelson last month released his CD of her songs; songwriting legend Harlan Howard called her the "greatest living songwriter of country music"), and she had Top 10 hits in every decade from...