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Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline is brought on not by bum knees or embarrassing arrests--in rap there's no such thing--but by something far more mundane: words. Jay-Z's aptly titled classic What More Can I Say is more than 800 words long, and when it's over, you know everything you could possibly need to know about him. (By contrast, James Blunt's pop ballad You're Beautiful has fewer than 200 words, half of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline isn't brought on by bum knees or embarrassing arrests - in rap there's no such thing - but by something far more mundane: words. Jay-Z's aptly titled classic "What More Can I Say" is more than 800 words long, and when it's over you know everything you could possibly need to know about him. (By contrast, James Blunt's pop ballad "You're Beautiful" has less than 200 words, half of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/24/2006 | See Source »

...know a TF—it is hardly enough time to make lasting bonds with siblings. My impact on Adam and Mariam’s lives has been minimal, and the prospects don’t look good. Because Windsor, Ontario is kinda like the Canadian equivalent of bum-fuck-Texas, I will not be moving back home after I graduate in June. Am I going to be the sister they never knew...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Growing Pains | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...because we firmly believe that this is a time of reflection on irony of the highest caliber presented by the twisted hand of fate. For perhaps this is the only time you will hear of Eliot residents seeking to be placed in Dunster in order to escape getting the bum-end of the deal...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Smell of Irony | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...don’t want HRES to get a bum rap for this,” he said. “They don’t deserve it. One of the easiest things in the world is to beat up on Harvard...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Camera Shop Shutters, Its Long Kodak Moment Over | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

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