Word: braggadocio
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Atmosphere’s hip hop looks past hollow braggadocio, reviving the music’s original impulse to reach out rather than push back. Slug sees no future in battle rhymes: “You can’t feed your kids with a battle rap. You can make your kids think you’re the dopest battle rapper in the world, but you can’t feed them.” Instead, he aligns himself with conscious emcees KRS-One and Chuck D, as well as songwriters like Tom Waits and Stevie Wonder...
...Streets revels in his London accent and phrasing at least as much and to greater effect as any American East-side gangsta. In his skinny-whiteness and mix of braggadocio and self-mockery, he is reminiscent of another white rapper known for his originality and his crudity. Original Pirate Material’s “Too Much Brandy” sounds a lot like, say, “Drug Ballad,” or possibly “Lounge...
...trash talking to his opponents, the press and anyone else who would listen, he connected things as seemingly opposite as Davy Crockett's braggadocio and the aggressive posturing of the black streets and locker rooms where he grew up. His startling wit was as exhilarating as those flying pies in American slapstick movies...
Churchill is reputed to have said, "Who would want to live to be 90? Everyone who is 89." We're a greedy lot. I'm not saying this out of braggadocio. I don't fear death. I really don't. My wife of 60 years, Ida, is gone. That's a gap, to put it mildly. How does it feel to be 89? Like 89! [Laughs.] My hearing--off and on, mostly off. I still do the treadmill, every third day, 15 minutes, and then the Exercycle and the dumbbells. But so far as the actual going, I really...
Player haters. Maybe that's the deal. Jealous people are always player-hating the Williams sisters, calling them arrogant or aloof or unfocused on tennis. Maybe it's sexism, the resentment of a dominant pro athlete's braggadocio, seen as unseemly in a woman. Maybe it's simple racism. Or maybe it's just that the Williams sisters, as good as they are, are kind of arrogant and aloof and unfocused on tennis. "People criticize me as being arrogant," Venus said last Monday during a tournament in New Haven, Conn., her toy Yorkshire popping out of her Kate Spade...