Word: hipping
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...people. Mariah is a great example; we're not looking at a "someday" Mariah. She's in the studio dropping dance beats, rapping with Jay Z. Kid rock has a got a guitar and some great beats. All the types of music are really influencing each other now, hip-hop and pop, rap and rock. It's all a lot closer to the people. Pop is sounding really progressive now, intergrating new beats and tech. Lots of kids can own Backstreet Boys and a Limp Bizkit CD, and defintiely Blink because it's right in between...
...doesn't pass judgement. The trend is a media-based way to describe the music scene. Our loyalty is to the music: hip hop is hip hop whether its DMX, Jay Z, or Kid Rock. The Latin explosion is a great example. I was talking to Enrique Inglesias and asking him what he felt about his music being labeled and he made the tandamount statement. He plays pop music; the only thing Latin about Enrique Inglesias is Enrique Inglesias. Out of ignorance, people are quick to label his music based only on his last name. Eminem is another good example...
Even the process of getting to the hospital in an ambulance has become more fraught. Consider the tragedy of Londell King, a 16-year-old straight-A student from Bridgeport, Conn., who was shot in the hip while standing on the street one March afternoon in 1997. Though an ambulance operated by American Medical Response arrived promptly, the EMTs on the scene allegedly didn't take King's vital signs or recognize his internal bleeding. They kicked him out of the ambulance and drove off, according to a lawsuit filed against AMR. Relatives took King to the hospital...
...camera trickery and fantasy sequences practically mugging you for your attention; the pandering barrage of slang and pop-culture references; even a teen-film star--Eddie Kaye Thomas, playing essentially the same smug, sleepy-eyed horndog who was the least appealing part of American Pie. Guess the title Painfully Hip was already taken...
...been out of the cage for years after injuring his hip attempting a particularly dangerous dance move mastered only by A.J. of the Backstreet Boys. But, Simon added, his retirement is by no means permanent...