It's good political hip-hop music, it's really empowering music.
Forget the national significance of the date, for hip-hop producers, it was the date for a championship sales match.
That's the only way you really expand the music and let kids who are in love with hip-hop know that it's okay to try something new.
Like a cordless phone looking for a clear channel, it can hop on to a less crowded frequency to send the next burst.
The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
Whereas his reputation once suffered from being so diverse, it is his hop-scotching across disciplines that makes him seem so young again.
Once a phone or laptop can jump among all available standards, it can easily hop to whichever network is fastest and cheapest.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons took it one step further by pulling a bottle of his new fragrance, Atman, out of his pocket.
Because if you sort of look at the way that people now listen to hip-hop, I think that it used to require a sort of cultural investment.
In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.
We've been talking about hip-hop and along with the beats it's all about the words.
Ms. YVONNE BYNOE (Author, Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture): I think it's very important.
Hip hop has long since proved that it is no cultural or intellectual fad.
But hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race.
But if the virus ever evolved to hop nimbly from person to person it too could wreak a pandemic.
It is a short hop from the bow onto the coarse yellow sand, the start of a four-hour walk back to Marahau.
In the summer months, there are 10 trains per day in each direction, so it is easy to hop on and off as you please.
Thus, he becomes one of the few to actually revive the innocence of early hip-hop, rather than stiffly imitate it like so many underground rappers.
With all this talk about small-form-factor PCs going on, not to mention the Vista-equipped computer bandwagon that's steaming through today, Lenovo apparently figured it might as well hop on.
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From there, it was a short hop to start a course that builds on those successes while simultaneously aiming to eliminate the social problems that drive women out of traditional computer science programs in the first place.
But I maintain that we should be willing to take a scholarly look at hip hop for no other reason than it has grabbed global attention and sparked emulation in countless different countries and among varied ethnicities.
Even as Times Square and the Theater District recovered, the Town Hall could not simply hop on the Broadway bandwagon: It was designed as a hall for speakers, meaning it has almost no wing space and cannot accommodate sets and scenery.
Only the 318 in question, however, are close enough to the Milky Way for the predicted galactic speed limit not to have been imposed (300m light years may sound a long way, but it is a short hop on the cosmic scale).
Well, whether it's hip-hop, country, whatever, what life lessons have you leaned from your music?
Then it's an easy hop back up to Maranello for the Ferrari auction on the 23rd.
And when some of its chief assumptions proved less than robust, it was caught on the hop.
If you really want to make it as a hip-hop artist, do what Roc Nation rapper J.
The flight to Montego Bay was a short hop from Miami, and we filled it with crayons and crackers.
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