Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...space ambitions. Its participation will help hold down the costs of future U.S. missions, and scientific data from exclusively Japanese probes will be available to all. Despite its many achievements, Japan remains significantly behind both the U.S. and the Soviet Union in space technology. Still, given the country's record in other areas, it may be a Japanese crew that first sets foot on Mars early in the coming century...
...that got its start as renegade street music back in the mid-1970s. Turned off by the blandness of disco and the slickness of rhythm and blues, disk jockeys in black dance clubs began manipulating their turntables to blend instrumental riffs from different songs, dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...
...head of the S1W squad, told the Washington Times that Jews were responsible for "the majority of wickedness going on across the globe." Ridenhour promptly condemned the statement and said that Griffin, known as Professor Griff, would leave the group. A few days later executives at Public Enemy's record label, Def Jam, announced that the group would disband. In the end, however, the group stayed together and Griffin stayed on, albeit in a demoted position. Griffin, a devoted follower of Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, now says he went too far in blaming all Jews...
...reference to the earlier incident, says, "Crucifixion ain't no fiction;/ So-called chosen, frozen./ Apology made to whoever pleases./ Still they got me like Jesus." Upset by the references to deicide and the term so-called chosen, the Anti-Defamation League wrote a protest letter to CBS, the record's distributors. The company eventually issued an internal memo instructing its employees to ensure "that none of our recordings promote bigotry." But Public Enemy and its supporters remain unapologetic. "This is Chuck's point of view as an African man living on this planet," says Harry Allen, a self-described...
Over the past few years major record companies like Columbia and RCA have < scrambled to hook up with rap labels. MTV, once criticized for ostracizing hip-hop videos, gives Yo! MTV Raps 30 minutes on its daily schedule. Master rappers D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince have appeared on the David Letterman show. The Grammy Awards got into the act last year when it created its first rap-music category. Meanwhile, mainstream musicians like pop producer and jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones are including rap tracks on their new albums...