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...ANYTHING can be termed the "next big thing" in 1983, it must be Black rap music, or funk, or whatever the cognoscente now choose to call it Clearly rap is the most original hybrid of Black music to emerge out of the inner city in many years, and probably the most interesting pop happening nowadays in the U.S. and England...
Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
LITTLE SUCH PRAISE can be heaped on New York's "Fearless 4," whose new song "Something New" perhaps shows the hazards of taking rap into the corporate swamp. (They were signed by Elektra/Asylum.) "Just Rock," which uses the music of Gary Numan's "Cars"--a song that should have never seen plastic the first time around--reaches for the same partydown atmosphere of the Jonzun Crew, but comes up empty...
Dance clubs are jumping skyhigh. From New York's Ritz to Madame Wong's West in Los Angeles, the dead discos have been displaced. Gone are the glitterballs, replaced by giant video screens. Their new music? Ringing cash registers and everything from rap music to technopop. The First Avenue club in Minneapolis, for instance, attracts up to 1,200 patrons each night to its multilevel cavern of stages and dance floors, plus four giant screens and 15 video monitors integrated with computer graphics. A good club disc jockey keeps well ahead of radio, dropping a record when...
Like most political memoirs, Power and Principle is largely an exercise in self-justification. Brzezinski tries hard to guide future historians in their judgments. His thesis is that the Administration he served got a bum rap from the press and from the voters. Always vigorously, sometimes ingeniously, and with lengthy references to a journal he kept with this book in mind, he seeks to prove some claims and disprove some charges. The result, in both cases, is often the opposite of what he intends...