Word: triteness
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...claim that a Brooklyn rapper could never do justice to the realities of the Harlem streets and the implication that Jones can. Yet what we find in the tracks of this mixtape is not a window into the world of an American gangster from Harlem but a rehashing of trite gangsta-isms that anyone with a copy of the film “Boyz n the Hood” could have easily conjured. Each track vaguely covers all of the following topics: selling crack, making money, snorting coke, getting hoes, and of course, ballin?...
...Shea Jackson’s 2008 album “Raw Footage”—serves as a promise to hardcore headz that he is, in fact, true to the game. The sad thing is that the promise rings a bit hollow, as trite Storch-esque piano chords and a dearth of true street knowledge belie the gritty aspirations of the video. Cube opens with the now-obligatory pre-music skit, this time set in a dystopian futuristic classroom in which the teacher is brainwashing kids about the evils of gangsta rap (“COMPTON...
...that her life has taken an unexpected turn, but that Sun’s course has taught her that life could hold more for her than the harsh world of the Bronx. Sun presents the scene as a moment of enlightenment, but the girl’s comments seem trite and unrealistic...
...hospital, is a man who lives by breaking the rules—always taking what he wants before considering others. The contrast with Chambers, a hard-working mechanic who has sacrificed his own happiness for that of his wife and children, is less than subtle. But despite this trite beginning, “The Bucket List” sustains itself on Nicholson and Freeman’s abilities. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, both men suddenly find themselves at the same point in life—no matter how different they may have been the day before. Together they compose...
...Because If You Put Numbers on It, People Will Read Anything, However Trite, Trivial and Insipid, from Beginning...