Word: rap
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...specific, he ascended Wu-Tang Mountain, where according to legend (his), he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew--by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds and they all came asking for autographs and pictures," says Diggs, who, under the pseudonym RZA, is the leader of rap's Wu-Tang Clan. "That's how it goes in China. They may not sell our records in Beijing, but kids...
...band's 1993 debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was rough and rambling, combining ragged street beats with lyrical imagery and audio samples drawn from Hong Kong martial-arts flicks. At a time when West Coast gangsta rap was dominating the hip-hop scene, the arrival of Wu-Tang of Staten Island, N.Y., announced that the East Coast was not to be ignored. The group's last major album, the ambitious 1997 double album Wu-Tang Forever, was a challenging, complex work of urban sprawl, spilling over with rude wordplay, goofy ideas, bad attitude and mumbled philosophy...
...BOOK: While other hip-hoppers just lay tracks, Wyclef writes songs. No topic, from romance to the Amadou Diallo killing, is beyond his range, and no musical style, from reggae to country, is beyond his grasp. Political, comical, unpredictable - Wyclef is the most inventive male performer in rap...
...WORST: Eminem's misogyny and gay baiting. Eminem is talented, but his attacks on women and gays poison his rap. Artists should have free speech, and rebellion in pop is a good thing. But attacking women and gays isn't rebellious, it's archaic. One fears that fans and mainstream critics may admire Eminem because he's giving voice to their prejudices...
...tape loop), and that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested in how the record was made, read Kahn; and if you're interested in what makes a piece of quiet, understated music survive four decades of rock, rap and ruckus, listen to the album again--and again and again...