Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final track, "Change Your Ways," could be one of the most original rap songs of the summer because it uses (gasp) a real drummer, Tony "Funky Drummer" Walls. Despite LL's sappy lyrics, which sound like a rap version of "We are the World," Walls gives this song some life. Why hasn't anyone thought of using real drums before...
POOR LL Cool J. Almost every rap artist has made fun of him ever since his second album, Bigger and Deffer, turned the 20-year-old rapper from New York into the self-proclaimed King of Rap...
With his newly released third album, Walking With a Panther, LL takes some swings against the King of Rap's new critics. At times, LL fights like Mike Tyson on this 18-track production. Other times, however, he's Gerry Cooney...
...other tracks, "Nitro" and "Why Do You Think They Call it Dope?", will give hardcore fans their dose of braggadocio rap. And yes, LL's popular rap single, "Going Back to Cali," has finally found a space on one of his albums...
...policy began after police filed charges against a Dallas branch of the record-store chain for selling harmful material to a minor. The store sold to a 13-year-old boy a rap album containing a graphic tune about a grotesque sex act. Though the charges were eventually dropped by a grand jury, the chain decided to be more prudent about prurience. "We feel we have an obligation to the customers and the communities we are in to police our sales," says Walter McNeer, an executive vice president at Western Merchandisers. "We do not want to be censors...