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By Paul Glanting
With song titles like “The Motherfucking Rave is Over” and lyrics that demand the knickers go back on, one may be inclined to think Pase Rock is the hip-hop equivalent to the cranky old man living in the apartment unit below yours, whose always banging his ceiling with a broom and demanding that you “keep that goddamn noise down.” However, URB caught up with Rock and found out that in truth, the Rapper/ DJ is eager to provide
URB: Like most “new shit,” you’ve been rapping and Djing for years.
Pase Rock: I’ve been really interested in music and youth culture my whole life (specifically hip-hop). I guess I started out as a fan just collecting records, dancing and learning how to scratch at a young age. I started rapping in high school. Got my first record deal at 15. …
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Though the hip-hop luminary known as Common is talking to us from Los Angeles, “near Hollywood,” he assures he hasn’t totally gone Hollywood. But Common is now fully dedicated to establishing himself as an actor, and he’s off to a rousing start in ‘07 with this month’s supercharged, star-studded mob thriller “Smokin’ Aces”. Later this year he’ll co-star with A-listers Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s “American Gangster”. Not bad for a “rapper-actor.”
URB: Have you long wanted to act?
Common: I can’t say since I was a kid I wanted to act. In fact, I remember being in a play and my mother kept talking about my friends’ performances instead of mine. So I wasn’t in any more plays after that, or thinking about an acting career, until I started doing music and started feeling like I could expand …
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Go behind the scenes and behind a building for our cover shoot with The Cool Kids, Roxy Cottontail and Amanda Blank. Biggups to Vimby for the moving flicks.
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By Michael Vazquez
Hiro Ballroom, NYC November 15th, 2007, ‘round midnight…Moby, his fans and this writer all want the same thing—to be Him or a Significant Part Of Him, based on whatever their self-interested idea of “Him” is; for me he’s an interesting subject that I have to get quotes from; for the girl-in-a-band who came over and poured herself a drink from our scotch bottle, he’s the path to a record deal, while the girl standing in the front row waiting for Him to go on is just hoping to make eye contact.
And in between these three agendas is a myriad of fans of the godhead—the individual who most overtly represents the American rave movement and the ongoing rise and fall and rise of a music and culture, now experiencing its first trendy rebirth and subsequent nostalgia. Tonight he is …
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If music blog fanboys served as any indication of the real worlds taste in music, Burial would be bigger than Beyoncé. But since that isnt the case, it’ll take some time before people wake up to Untrue, the conceptual refinement of last years acclaimed self-titled album that introduced the media-silent artist to listeners beyond those immersed in UKs dubstep underground.
Sounding like the excavated ruins of two-step, Burial’s all too appropriate name plays off the final procession of British electronic music. Sidestepping the age old preoccupation with the future, tracks like “Ghost Hardware” are propelled by an underlying noise and slack that defies pinpointing the creation date (not that the production relies on textural smoke and mirrors). Burial has the same innate knack for long-brewing melody that helped wedge groups like Boards of Canada and Tricky into mainstream consciousness. On the …
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