Word: successes
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...musicians as successful as rap legend 50 Cent have ever been less innovative. Indeed, 50 has gained enormous and well-deserved fame by creating the archetypal song for many of hip-hop’s most fundamental clichés—in his 2003 masterpiece “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” alone, 50 brought the dance floor bump-n-grind to its apotheosis with “In Da Club,” painted the precise portrait of one of rap’s cardinal tropes with “P.I.M.P...
...newest album, “Before I Self Destruct,” reveals the shortcomings of this formula. As before, the album is limited to the rap’s essential subjects: self-promotion, industry feuding, and street cred. This newest release also resembles 50’s past success in its stellar production and moments of great lyrical intensity. But “Before I Self Destruct” is limited by its combination of forgettable hooks, tired themes and unfocused narratives...
Similarly, the critique that this is a peculiar gesture or in some way not in keeping with a tradition of diplomacy misses the mark; former President Nixon attempted a similar gesture when he met with an emperor of Japan in 1971, albeit with more success. Nixon certainly had other problems with his presidency, but showing respect to a foreign dignitary was not one of them...
Throughout the book and last night’s presentation, Plouffe addressed what he said were four fundamental threads to Obama’s election: belief in the campaign’s ability to defy political convention, refusal to judge success by the news and politics of the moments, the power of the grassroots campaign, and Obama’s performance as a whole...
Going into play, the Crimson knew it was going up against not only one of the best overall teams in the country, but also the top ranked team on power plays. In comparison, Harvard’s nine-percent success scoring on power plays seemed dismal to the Wildcat’s 34 percent...