Word: trickyness
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What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare - like Washington coloring books - there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's "The Buck Stops Here" is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St...
1. "Testify" Rage Against the Machine 2. "Overcome" Tricky 3. "Fear Not of Man" Mos Def 4. "I'm Diggin You (Like an Old Soul Record)" Me'Shell NdegeOcello 5. "Sugar Water" Cibo Matto
5. "Check the Rhime" A Tribe Called Quest My all-time favorite - breathtaking rhyming skills, tricky abstract poetics creating mental aerobics for the listener, and a profound musical commentary on the MC as bebop inheritor.
Gangsta rap, with its narrative tales and its cinematic funk-driven sound, offered a distinct alternative to the tricky bebop gymnastics of the freestyling East Coast. But hip-hop came close to destroying itself in the mid-'90s when that bicoastal rivalry almost turned into a shooting war, as Tupac...
"The tricky part from the perspective of students is that they often feel patronized by a sense that we have this attitude, that we're treating them like children," McAfee says.