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...generally cordial relations with the Secretaries of State and Defense. Indeed, he regards his good pal Weinberger practically as a client. Once each month or so, ostensibly to clear the air of tensions, he and Secretary of State George Shultz, accompanied by one aide each, hold a two-hour rap session. Yet that has not stopped the widening rift between...
Mark Rudd talks, and then someone with red hair in a T-shirt begins a long rap about Weathermen political philosophy. I'm leaning against a post, summarizing, for my own use. Weathermen philosophy as follows...
...premier deejays of the rap scene is Grandmaster Flash, who, with his MCs, the Furious Five, turned out one of 1982's best singles, a seven-minute-long and atypically political number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This...
...Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman...
...Rap dancing, especially breaking, is an essentially male competition, but even in fashion the boys dominate. Gentlemen's Quarterly is treach. "Males have more plumage," says Monica Lynch, vice president of Tommy Boy records, a Manhattan rap label. "Guys are out there flashing their stuff, and the girls are usually wearing a watered-down version of what the guys have on. The girls don't want to look all that nasty." Maybe not, but with their penchant for leather pants or layers of Kamali-esque sweatshirtings, they have a sure knowledge of the impact of style. Says Lisa...