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...shots and attempts to create a hostile T.I. that not even a mother could love. the rapper’s dueling identities—the commercial T.I. and the rawer T.I.P.—against each other. This track is meant to remind listeners that T.I. has street cred and should be feared, as well as loved, by fans. While the video’s style takes pains to portray the rough underbelly of rap that no longer exists for some of its biggest stars, T.I. seems uncomfortable in a role he once played perfectly. Though he can swing...
...Nicaragua, a movement that started off channeling youth rebellion into the violent overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 is once again the governing party. And in many poor neighborhoods, the Sandinista Front has more street cred than the local youth gang...
...Maliki's Dawa Party, is beholden to Tehran. Twice in the past two years, Abdul-Mahdi has told journalists he was on the verge of quitting the SIIC to form his own party, only to change his mind - likely because he knows he has no grassroots support or street cred of his own. As Prime Minister, he would be little more than a puppet in the hand of Iran's ayatollahs, and would be unlikely to do more than Maliki has done to accommodate the Sunnis...
...bright, beckoning palette as a point of entry into all kinds of sophisticated reckonings with form. And though her work is full of references to comic books and cartoons, she didn't put them there as lazy quotations, a means by which to lend herself pop culture street cred. She connected her memories of Disney and Dick Tracy to the tropes of Surrealism, conflating them into a parallel reality that's both funny-pages funny and uncanny in that Surrealist...
This ain't Mika or Kelly Clarkson. Cool teen Londoners are into "credible music," according to Sam Killcoyne, the15-year-old organizer of the Underage events. And the roster of young talent assembled at London's Victoria Park for the festival was dripping with cred. The Young Knives, Jack Peñate and Cajun Dance Party may have already made an impression on the charts, but even the likes of Nottingham's electro-popsters, Late Of The Pier and Brighton's Maths Class have mustered a substantial London following by word of MySpace alone...