Word: upliftment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President" instantly became a hip-hop classic. Although The Master, his second solo release doesn't match the freshness and energy of that early work, Rakim's rich-as-gold rhymes are as smooth and full of groove as ever. He flows effortlessly in funky tracks like "Uplift" and "All Night Long," and his silver-tongued baritone plays skillfully against Nneaka Morton's soft vocals in "I'll Be There." But it's in "When I Be On Tha Mic" that Rakim proves he is still master of tight verbal syncopation, complex rhyme schemes, and unforgettable lines: "DJs display tricks...
...Every other city we go, every other video. No matter where I go, I see the same ho." There are some women who are kind of ho-ish. But there are Tupac songs that uplift women: "Daddy's all gone and he left you by your lonesome. Thank the lord for my kids even if nobody else wants em. But you can make it. So stand up, Stand tall...
...Backstreet Boys, it courageously dares to not pander to radio. The album has an organic feel, with little of the machine-like velocity and crushing density of Spiral. Reznor leaves breaks in the sonic wall this time, allowing the songs to breathe. He drives home a subtle message of uplift by filling the open spaces with soft, surprising textures rarely found in rock: cellos, violins, a ukulele here and there, and a tinkling piano--many of those played by Reznor himself, who also does most of the singing...
...call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
...zero-chemistry courtship between Fraser and Silverstone prompts nausea. The film would have been better with less emphasis on their inevitable romance. The director attempts to uplift us with a scene depicting Adam's first sight of the ocean, but cheesy orchestral music coupled with shots of Silverstone's blank reaction basically kill the moment...