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Gayle: Are we judging the actual work itself, or the medium through which it is depicted? I haven’t heard anyone questioning what is actually said on the CD. All I’ve heard us questioning is the fact that it’s a rap...
...nowhere, though, because Smith was too "terrified" to sign on. "I didn't want to be the dude that messed up the Muhammad Ali story," he says. He also had trouble relating to a man whose life had been so defined by racial injustice. "I'm a child of rap music," says Smith, who started his career in music and still moonlights as a rapper. "We've got Bentleys. We can't even relate to not being able to sit in somebody's lunch counter. I'll buy the counter and throw you out." But for Ali, Smith was always...
...Keys materialized unexpectedly to release one of last year’s most successful albums. No Lolita-inspired appearance on MTV was called for; the music sold itself. A brief look at the rest of the Billboard 200 proves the point; whether it’s country, hip hop, rap or rock, the music inevitably transcends, or betrays, whatever image the artist is trying to present. After more than a year on the chart, the bluegrass/country/gospel soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou? is hovering just below the top 10 (key term: bluegrass...
...West was chastised for participating in a rap album, working with Al Sharpton on a prospective presidential campaign and for failing to write “scholarly” material worthy of Harvard’s prestige, then such criticism deserves rebuke. I am no fan of rap music, yet one wonders if West were cutting a CD on classical music whether he would be criticized or praised. As for assisting in a prospective presidential bid by Sharpton, surely the First Amendment does not end at the iron-wrought gates of Harvard. Sharpton has his political and personal agenda...
...press even published the whole yarn as if it were known to be true. But it was just hooey. A low-level former Democrat in a campaign consultant's office was prosecuted and jailed for sending the tape. Rove wasn't involved at all. It was a bum rap, but Rove probably doesn't mind. Those kinds of suspicions are the price he pays for being the President's playmaker...