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...futile. "The government can't control music," he says. Artists like Mapfumo will be heard - on tapes copied until they're frayed, on short-wave radio, in bars and beerhalls. "Ministers had better listen," says Tsodzo. "Musicians are voicing what the people are saying." Mapfumo's latest album, Toi Toi, was released three weeks ago in Zimbabwe. The sounds are familiar - melodic mbira, twangy guitars, Big Band brass. The name comes from a type of protest music, but Mapfumo's manager, Cuthbert Chiromo, says Toi Toi is "more reflective, less political." Not apolitical - this is Mapfumo, after all. The biggest...
After meeting at the John Harvard statue in the early afternoon, the group learned the “Toi-Toi” dance, which SGAC co-founder Benjamin M. Wikler ’03 said is “a South African anti-apartheid dance that is now used in the fight against global AIDS...
...going to represent the black women of the world with this,” Ms. Toi announces in her official bio. What this ambitious West Coast hip-hop rookie’s representin’ entails is a take-no-prisoners aggression, unapologetic sexuality and an obstinate independence...
...Toi dubbed her debut That Girl, because after she lent spitfire to Ice Cube and Mack 10’s “You Can Do It” for the Next Friday soundtrack, that became her most common moniker. First she resisted the label; then she embraced it. After the decade of grabbing for MC fame that led Ms. Toi no further than the gender gap, this inspirational exchange, sputtered over an admittedly tight beat, was all it took to get her signed to a major label: “Ms. Toi: You can do it put your back...
Very well. Ms. Toi has no problem with booty per se, and though the dubious plum Russian fur hat and similarly purple vinyl attire she sports on the cover of her album bespeaks bling, she has more to offer. Track after track, she never lets up on the flow—or the venom—though her insistence occasionally gives way to repetition. The best tracks are those in which she forgoes the lackluster, quasi-operatic sampling for the rhymes she does best. Unfortunately, given the as yet unspectacular reception of her November release, the world...