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...have thought it was a gag. Sometimes he used it for fun, in high-pitched baby talk, as George Rock's comic falsetto had for the vocal in Spike Jones' 1947 novelty hit "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)." And the reading of "bay-yay-bee" in "Sherry," offers a few seconds of comedy-record crib noise...
...Fella wasn't the only label to pass on Kanye (pronounced Kahn-yay; it means "the Only One" in Swahili) West. Executives at record companies large and small failed to reconcile West's appearance and demeanor with their expectations of what a rapper should be. They had no idea how to market him. "It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs," says West, 28, who grew up in suburban Chicago and often dresses as if he's anticipating an acceptance letter from Exeter...
...third bedfellow to deal with: the Harvard bureaucracy. FYI, a Quincy House tutor had to leave last year following allegations of a relationship between her and an undergraduate. So, the basic problem here is that no matter what your real feelings, the rules are clear—simple friendship: yay. Deep passionate relationship or casual sex: nay. Harvard rules prohibit tutors to have student friends with “benefits...
...Yay for popcorn chicken! Get in my belly!” exclaims Laura G. Brent ’08. However, she adds, “As ‘yay’ as popcorn chicken is, I would prefer healthy food...
...introduction. “Son, I’m thirty / I only went with your mother cause she’s dirty,” Shaun Ryder enters, immediately launching listeners into the Mondays’ bent, polluted world, where joyous “Yippee-yippee-yi-yi-yay!”s stolen from Patti LaBelle are followed by “I had to crucify some brother today!” Properly indoctrinated, we progress through a surreal encounter with the police (“God’s Cop”) a tribute...