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...Rich or Die Trying, out last week, is expected to sell 500,000 copies and enter the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1 in its first five days of release. A decade after Snoop Dogg put out an album while prepping for a murder trial, blending gunplay and wordplay remains rap's most potent marketing strategy. But what makes 50 rap's hottest act (he has two songs in the Top 20) is more than his resume. He happens to be very good, particularly at setting a mood with his rumbling baritone. (Eminem declared 50 his favorite rapper and made...
...contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else contain nothing at all, Herpich bounces the reader along. Combined with...
...Mnant” (Con Stella Tion Records, Montreal, Canada). Put the two together and it makes re:mnant. The name of every song is a suffix to re: - scue, -duce, -solute, -cipe, -straint, -buke, -pent, -legate, -volve, -ject, and -gulate. This musical wordplay sits well outside the mainstream, but then again so does its off-beat creator...
...Mnant” (Con Stella Tion Records, Montreal, Canada). Put the two together and it makes re:mnant. The name of every song is a suffix to re: - scue, -duce, -solute, -cipe, -straint, -buke, -pent, -legate, -volve, -ject, and -gulate. This musical wordplay sits well outside the mainstream, but then again so does its off-beat creator...
...Mnant” (Con Stella Tion Records, Montreal, Canada). Put the two together and it makes re:mnant. The name of every song is a suffix to re: - scue, -duce, -solute, -cipe, -straint, -buke, -pent, -legate, -volve, -ject, and -gulate. This musical wordplay sits well outside the mainstream, but then again so does its off-beat creator...