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On Top Of Our Game
Dem Franchize Boyz “On Top Of Our Game” (So So Def/Virgin) 4.5 Stars There are a few universal laws in
Pop Screen: LL Cool J
LL Cool J “Control Myself” Dir. Hype Williams Twenty-one years is a long time. Long enough for countless rap careers,
Run the Road, Vol. 2
I am scared of foreign music. Grime, reggaetón, Houston rap… they all make me uncomfortable, mainly because I can’t understand
DHO Engages in Fascinating ‘Dialogue’
One would expect an opera whose protagonist is named Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ to be excessively melodramatic.
Most Known Unknown: Why Harvard's Hip-Hop Needs to Sell Out
Mos Def said that hip-hop is “the sovereign state of the have-nots.” Take a look around the Yard—there isn’t too
Two Harvard Students Walk Into A Bar...
Perhaps the best thing to come of the failed Wyclef concert is its replacement—“Comedy for a Cause 2005,” a Harvard
Home Grown!
(Geffen) 4.5/5 Stars A “beginner’s guide” to the Roots is not the mere pretentious sales grab it may originally seem,
Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mixtape
(Koch Records) 3.5/5 Stars Talib Kweli used to be inextricably linked with the NYC vibe of a Brooklyn block party,
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
(G-Unit/Interscope) 3/5 Stars 50 Cent has become a one-man No Limit crew. Every month or two, he has a new
Alumni Watch: Abigail Child '68
The adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is often heard. Yet very few people can harness a thousand
Pop Screen
"Hung Up " Madonna That Madonna’s latest video is such a blatant plea for urban legitimacy is all the more
Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture
(Babygrande) 4/5 Anyone who heard the stellar “Biochemical Equation,” the collaboration single between the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (who did the
Doom
Doom Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak Universal Pictures **1/2 For those of us who have spent countless hours hunched over a
Review Of The Week: Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane
Released on Blue Note Records. 5/5 stars Although I was introduced to jazz at a young age, I never dove
