Word: yo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...
World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 received the medal last year and became an honorary associate...
...Bear's--10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Shudder to Think, Jawbox, Miranda Warning on March 12. Yo La Tenga and Womb to Tomb on March...
Shocklee and Chuck D deejayed on the party circuit, appeared at local clubs and concocted a local video rap show. When they cut their first single, Public Enemy No. 1, in early 1987, their sound was already incendiary. Their first album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, sold 400,000 copies later that same year without benefit of airplay. Each succeeding record displayed new fire and fresh momentum, culminating in Fight the Power, which soared up the singles charts in the summer of 1989 and became the signature song in Do the Right Thing...
Spradlin operates a shuttle car, ferrying four tons of coal from the face of the mine to a conveyor belt. The monotony of the job is numbing. "It's like a yo-yo, all day, back and forth, all day," he says. Sometimes he is two miles within the mountain. Often he kneels in mud and water. He has worked in low- seam coal, a claustrophobic 29 inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When...