Word: mainstreaming
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...real life, he’s known as Bronx-based MC and producer Mike Ladd, the man behind Beauty Party, the second triumphant episode in the ongoing battle between the Majesticons and their arch-nemeses the Infesticons. Beauty Party is a complete success, parodying the misplaced values of mainstream hip-hop and R&B, while reveling in the guilty pleasures of club-bumpin’ bangers, booty, Burberry and blow...
...album’s great achievements is that it portrays an invisible, ongoing transition in mainstream hip-hop: from ghetto-fabulous rebellion to upper crust complacency. On “Fader Party” the Majesticons play defiant street rappers as they “count the funds / count my guns / count my sons / count my clout / count you out.” But by the time “Platinum BlaQue” arrives, they’ve begun to assimilate: “New Republic on the table with the New York Times / Used to read The Nation...
While Ladd clearly loves the art and comedy of mainstream black music, his point is striking: that the Majesticons of the real world are in danger of assimilating into the ruling class, against which hip-hop has traditionally struggled. It is this tension between celebration and censure that rings true to fans of the music, and makes Beauty Party at once a joy and a challenge...
...front lunch tables, passing along notes written on napkins. We were putting together the National Organization for Women under the noses of the people who wanted to put us off. I wrote on one napkin that NOW had "to take the actions needed to bring women into the mainstream of American society, now ... in fully equal partnership with men." As people rushed to catch planes, the founding members collected $5 from one another as our charter budget. Anna Roosevelt Halstead, Eleanor's daughter, gave...
...Asians I've met used to say America is the country that defeated the Nazis and won the cold war. Now, in the mainstream, I hear that America "was" the country that performed those noble services. This 21st century incarnation, with Bush at the helm, "is" the country that they feel countenances Israeli occupation of Palestine, that never articulated a convincing or consistent case for war against Iraq, and that has temporarily suspended tenets of its own Constitution...