On 10 Rap Songs On Which Ladies Outshine Their Male Counterparts
Come on man! Keith Murray owns that song! Foxxy's verse is on permanent fast-forward.
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On 10 Rap Songs On Which Ladies Outshine Their Male Counterparts
Isn't Rick Ross like a quadrillion times worse?
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On I Know The 2012 Election Will Destroy My Life
I'd been afraid that this election will consume my time as well, just as '08 and '04 did, but I really think this will be more like '96 than the last 3 elections.
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On Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
Ha!! I'd forgotten about that!
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On Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
I'm skeptical of the new weird trend. Certainly there is hot-weird and wack-weird. I think wack-weird is describes most of it. Grab attention through hot lyrics, not by eating bugs and acting pseudo-crazy, like the Wolfman Jacks or whatever their name is. Kool Keith, OutKast, etc., established themselves as originals and then branched out further and maintained their skills. ODB was a hit because there was "no father to his style."
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On The Giant Cockroach That Guy Eats In The New Video Everybody's Talking About
"I see: the gimmicks, the wack lyrics, the shit is depressin', pathetic - please forget it!" T. the C. is what that Biggie line was made for.
Also I'd forgotten 50 said that about Yonkers - one of his many several hat-tips to DMX, I think, prior to the beef with Jadakiss...
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On Our Critics Will Not Be With Us Forever
I'm sorry, I just don't understand this at all. I don't know what it means or how to think about it.
"There's an assumption..." There is?
Op-ed columnists engage in critical evaluation?
Not sure what this means:
"(The hiring of Dargis was the last big outside critical hire in major New York publications in memory"
(James Wood to the New Yorker?)
And James Wolcott - didn't he move on to a better gig?
And Michael Kimmelman? When was he hired, who did he replace? (I mean...who cares?) And Anthony Tommasini? And Ben Ratliff and the other critics? If this is not exhaustive, I can't see what good it is to help form a picture of how the Times works. And even if were exhaustive, I'm not sure it would mean much.
"So while it may feel that most of our critics have been around forever, installed on the various soapboxes of the New York media world, most of their reigns have been long but not actually anywhere near endless."
But whoever said their reigns were endless? People have jobs...and sometimes move into different jobs...
I think like any field of endeavor, when it comes to the big names involved, there is a certain amount of fluidity and a certain amount of stability.
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On You Won't Be the Same Person When You Wake Up Next Year
"I am not now what I was yesterday. And I am not now what I shall be tomorrow. You do yourself an injustice to judge me by yesterday, when I have moved on!"
Freddie Foxxx feat. M.O.P., The Masters, 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cmaZKjAbc
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On 10 Rap Songs On Which Ladies Outshine Their Male Counterparts
Isn't Fat Joe supposed to say "tommy guns for fun, shotties for block parties"? Or was that another song? I also think Keith's verse was truncated ("like Redman...")?