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...Kevin Powell: No, putting something in a museum does not imply that it is dead. It implies that it is important, crucial, an important part of the human journey. The art of Basquiat is not dead, although he has been dead for 13 years. The art of Bearden, Lawrence and others is full of life because art is about life, not death. And hip-hop is urban folk art, period. And that urban folk art is about the lives of a very unique group of people, of how they made something out of nothing, and how that nothing has come...
...world two years later. N.W.A. spawned a new breed of rapper, styled as gun-toting hoodlum supposedly giving suburban America a frightening peek into ghetto life - the group knew from pretty early on that about 80 percent of the people buying their albums were white, middle-class kids. Although the industry was happy to cash in, pressure by conservative advocacy groups on major corporations such as Time Warner (parent company of TIME.com) resulted in the industry backing away from promoting gangsta rap. "Hip-Hop Nation" includes original correspondence detailing efforts by Ice-T to be released from his Warner Brothers...
...Take heart, thou first-years, for although thy room...
That audience, of course, was me. Every Wednesday night, I would rush back to my Cambridge apartment, nuke a bag of popcorn, cuddle up on the couch and prepare for Survivor. Although some may consider a two-hour grace period between when my eyes were first glued to the television and when the opening credits for the show began to run to be a little excessive, I assure you the time was well-spent writing letters to CBS concerning how much Big Brother sucked...
Light said this is still a problem, although the percentage of the University's holdings invested in venture capital has risen because of the exceptional growth in this sector...