Word: rap
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...Vicious Rap" Tanya "Sweet T" Winley (Winley Records) Forget "Rapper's Delight," this was first...
...classic. We will find Eminem's lyrics in college poetry texts, and museum exhibitions on The Art of Doom. But for now, and from this crabby perspective, it looks like junk. Junk passing as bold popular art. Violent entertainment, from WWF to Howard Stern to the sleazier rap music, is not adult. It is, essentially, infantile - the expression of a caterwauling baby whose main pleasures are breaking things and playing with his caca. And the child of the '50s that still lives inside me wonders whether I would have been as eager to devour the scraps of this culture...
Attorneys for heavy-metal band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre sent a letter to Harvard Sept. 6 asking the University to ban student access to the Napster music-trading service via the campus network. The letter, which carries the implied threat of a lawsuit and requests a reply by Sept. 22, asserts that Harvard has a "moral, ethical, and legal obligation" to block Napster access. Rather than accede to Metallica's demands, Harvard should make clear in its reply the University's commitment to open student access to electronic resources and its refusal to act as an electronic filter...
...Rock will have its place, with U2 and the Wallflowers readying new CDs, and soul will have its day, with Erykah Badu making a welcome return and Sade making a welcome and long-awaited one. As for hip-hop, the Atlanta-based duo Outkast, jazz rapper Guru and rap rocker Everlast are ones to watch. With so much to choose from, Napster never had it so good...
...Boston's Museum of Fine Arts unveils "Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar," a 350-year survey that's heavy on the post-Stratocaster era. In the same vein, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will premiere "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" on Sept. 22, a survey of rap culture from its beginnings in the late 1970s. Pick your outfit...