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...Your Lights On. Hip-hop followers probably remember him from the 1990s as the frontman of the proudly uncouth, roughneck trio House of Pain. After four years with that group, he quit, dropped out of music, changed gears and then scored a surprise hit with his 1998 solo debut, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. That record broke all the rules, using acoustic guitars, rapping, blues riffs and elements borrowed from Johnny Cash and Neil Young to create a striking hip-hop offshoot that sounded tough and folksy at the same time. The songs were about working people and the small...
...ordeal's aftermath gave him a new artistic life. As he lay in a hospital bed recovering from the surgery, Everlast found himself filled with a wealth of new ideas, many of which he explores on his captivating new cd, Eat at Whitey's (Tommy Boy). The album grapples in a smart, nonpreachy way with heavy issues--love, death, faith--that usually don't spend much time on the radar screen...
...four art forms - deejaying, rapping, break dancing and graffiti tagging - but it quickly evolved into a cultural revolution in which young African-Americans literally remade their America. In the spirit of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, they didn't simply demand to be admitted as an equal in Whitey's world; they created their own popular culture grounded in the lived reality and aspirations of black life in America. Far from demanding to join the club, the hip-hop kids created their own. And once they'd built it, Whitey came, desperately seeking access to the "cool" that...
...Gore shot off a notice trumpeting the endorsement of Ted Kennedy, and anointing himself the bearer of the passed torch. Said Bush in response: "I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was…oh, never mind." The Gore campaign has repeatedly denied responsibility for the appearance of signs reading "Whitey says vote for Al," a reference to Whitey Bulger, the South Boston fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list...
Horowitz is as much despised among Externalists as Chambers was at Georgetown dinner parties during the Alger Hiss case years ago. Among racial intellectuals, Horowitz is "Not Our Class, Dear." Hating Whitey--with its inflammatory title--deserves a reading. Horowitz is angry and polemical, but he is also a clear and ruthless thinker. What he says has an indignant sanity about it. For cautionary perspective in an argument like this, it pays to remember that Hiss was guilty and Chambers was right...