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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urban counterculture of sorts, its current worldwide appeal has rid it of its most essential element, its countercultural defiance. It's now a genre up for grabs, a space for marketing frenzies. Consequently, its prominent products comprise not much more than mediocre commercial formulas devoid of the creative zeal of yesteryear, aimed instead at providing new images for advertising agencies or at escalating the Billboard mountain. According to my boy, the recent Time "Hip Hop Nation" cover and Eminem's success story are symptoms of the culture's sad commercial zenith, comparable to the beginnings of the demise of every...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...social responsibility is less inspiring--when asked if there exists a unifying philosophy behind hip-hop, one record company executive states that "the one thing that I think every artist can agree on is the desire for artists to own their own masters." Rather than ruin my newfound zeal for hip-hop, I tune out and sift through the ideas in KRS-1's keynote address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As It Were | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...reforming zeal, say GSC members, the good advising that went on was overlooked...

Author: By Kiratiana E. Freelon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Receive Mentoring Awards | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...social responsibility is less inspiring--when asked if there exists a unifying philosophy behind hip-hop, one record company executive states that "the one thing that I think every artist can agree on is the desire for artists to own their own masters." Rather than ruin my newfound zeal for hip-hop, I tune out and sift through the ideas in KRS-1's keynote address...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: This Ol' Dirty Bastard: How I Came to Terms with My Hip-Hop Roots | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

Some students go all out in their zeal to host a good party. Soman S. Chainani '01 says he and many others worked for two weeks in preparation for a Studio 54 party he hosted in Quincy House on Halloween...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Variations on a party theme | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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