Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women is one that makes room for subversion, because if women are going to argue for room at all, it needs to be new room. Let me restate: Honey, we gotta make a change. In fact, if we are to look at hip hop from a progressive-evolutionist stand point, we'd have to say that the boys can never go back to the way they were, go back to speaking because they didn't really have a voice. The existence of ice rocking, megalo-maniacal, comic book/mob-movie obsessed opportunists is going to keep men that aren't like this...
...propose that we get confrontational. Men's insistence that we can't raise our children bugs me. Let's take it to the stage. The constant mantra in male hip hop is about the absense of a father, while mentioning the mother only because she was there, like a stand in. Boo! Okay, the woman's place in the family is extremely important, and women emcees should speak to the world about this. The best way is to not even engage men in debate about whether or not the role of the mother is important, but to get out there...
Take deejay battles. Turntablists stand before two Technics and a mixer to vie against their opponents by cutting samples, juggling beats and hyping up the crowd with antics like scratching as they give their opponents the finger. Standing in a crowd before such a spectacle is especially dope because everyone else around you shares your aesthetic sensibilities. It's as if you hear echoes of your own thoughts: "Yo that shit is RIDICULOUS...
...listeners live the music is at the shows where signed artists come to a town near you to perform their album material. Put simply, next to the cozier, more covert settings of what we can loosely term the "underground," such shows are just weak-wack. Typical rap artists either stand on stage with nothing entertaining to deliver except the mere presence of their stardom (e.g., Jay-Z), or they riddle their acts with gimmicky stage props or too many cohorts (e.g., Nas, Wu-Tang). Or they repeat their tracks with genuine energy, but without anything you couldn't find...
Murphy also took a stand in opposition to the students' wish to get rid of the GRE as an admissions requirement...