Word: hipping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...drinking the bar wine - always a mistake. Find ourselves at the Crystal Ballroom, one of the last true bum bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves out into the audience - still clutching the microphone, still singing - on her hands and knees. I look down and she?s crawling between...
...fluff bands like Matchbox Twenty supplied the sleeping pills. And gangsta-rap acts like Jay-Z, gloating over their genre's dominance in the marketplace, delivered the eulogy. But rock still isn't dead. In fact, in the past two years it has been rejuvenated creatively and commercially by hip-hop rock acts such as Deftones and others. And this week rock receives another jolt of new life in the form of Radiohead's spectacularly inventive album Kid A (Capitol). As the funeral procession winds through the streets, rock rages on. It sounds pretty good for a dead...
...soundtrack to the movie Bait features a star-studded, diverse lineup of artists that is sure to make this album a hit with the hip-hop audience. Artists such as Mya, Total and newcomer Majusty give this album a touch of love, while the banging bass lines of Trick Daddy's "Can't F**k With Me" provide a more rugged edge. In contrast, Donnell Jones puts his award-winning vocals to work on "Take it There," an R&B track that is sure to hit radio waves across the country...
Blend the bass line from Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" and underground rap and you have the Roots' "Work," a track guaranteed to earn respect from the hip-hop world. Meanwhile, St. Louis rapper Nelly continues his assault on the rap world with "Icey," a smooth, melodic piece about the rapper's newfound spending power...
...through. Ironically, the album's strong diversity also provides its only weakness. How does a love song entitled "Remarkable" from Jaheim make it onto an album with songs such as "Sex, Sex, Money, Money" and "I Love Being a Gangsta?" Despite this, the soundtrack is worth a listen from hip-hop heads of all types...