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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If Caltech's experiments are successful, Clemmons says, she wants to demonstrate her theory on a grander stage: in the shadow of the Giza pyramids outside Cairo, in what she envisions as the most notable kite flight since Ben Franklin's. In the meantime, Clemmons is taken with the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Build A Pyramid? Go Fly A Kite | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Don't call it alternative hip-hop. Don't call it neo-rap or jazz-rap or anything that would separate it from itself. What it is, straight up, is hip-hop. Call it underground hip-hop, if you have to; call it the Next Wave, if you need a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop's Next Wave | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Three acts--the Roots, Q-Tip and Mos Def--are at the front of hip-hop's new movement. All three have recently come out with accomplished albums. And all three are creating hip-hop that's more personal, political and spiritual than the bulk of what passes for Top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop's Next Wave | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

What makes Amplified noteworthy is the fact that it is ultimately reflective about its playfulness. The CD's unlisted final track, Do It, See It, Be It, contains a heartfelt message. "The song says you can be who you want to be," says Q-Tip. "Just see your goal." Q...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop's Next Wave | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

What's compelling about these acts is that they are not overtly focused on chart topping. "Follow your heart/And not mankind," Q-Tip raps on Do It, See It, Be It. Eclecticism is seen as a virtue. The Roots is working on a cover of Bob Dylan's 1976 song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop's Next Wave | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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