Word: underground
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Formerly of the Living Legends crew, currently on the cutting edge Def Jux label and aspiring Harvard student, Murs is finally starting to break it big after many years on the West Coast underground. Def Jux has become the hip-hop label to watch thanks to the careful management of rapper and CEO El-P, the Jay-Z of the underground. Jukies always appear on each other’s albums, and the tours become traveling carnivals of talent dominated by the Jukies themselves, but with a healthy accumulation of friends and guests to round things out. In fact...
...Fakts One, who tore through unreleased political tracks (“Where are the weapons of mass destruction?” goes the chorus of one surprisingly catchy track) as well as an extended praise poem to the New England Patriots. Shock G, founding member of Digital Underground provided a bridge between the acts, guesting with The Perceptionists and playing his own cover of Tupac’s “I Get Around” as well as backing up Murs throughout his set. Shock emerged from behind his decks and keyboards to play himself and alter ego Humpty...
...commercial rap often has the best beats, underground rap tends to rule the roost when it comes to performance, and Murs proves the point. A long, pointed beard offsets his Denzel good looks. When he raps, his energy is channeled through blazing eyes while one hand reaches towards the audience, fingers outstretched to draw them in. His beard remains surprisingly still behind the fist clenched around his mic. In between songs, he executes flying leaps, coming dangerously close to connecting with the Middle East’s low ceiling. At one point, during a small dance routine, he even does...
...folk sounds. So popular is Rekha, 33, that her parties have become tourist attractions. "I can go anywhere in the country," she says, "and someone will go, 'Oh, I've been to Basement Bhangra.'" At Sonotheque in Chicago, Brian Keigher, 31, spins a popular fusion style known as "Asian underground"--fast, irresistibly danceable music studded with sitars and thumping tablas. Wade your way through the crush on the dance floor, and you will find Indian students, Pakistani locals from Devon Avenue, white clubgoers from the North Side and West Side blacks, always hungry for a new sound. At music clubs...
Israel's assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas' leader in Gaza, has thrown the Islamic movement's chiefs into a panic. Coming less than a month after Israel eliminated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Rantisi's killing forced underground Gaza's political leaders. It also dangerously deepened fissures between the group's military and political factions. Fighters in its military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, fear that surviving political leaders are less committed than Rantisi was to attacking Israel, say senior Hamas sources in Gaza. Izzedine al-Qassam members want to strike back at Israel soon to avenge Rantisi's death...