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(2,117 posts)Arrested Development (group)
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Arrested Development is an American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and his then best friend Headliner (DJ) as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.
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emulate the violence that is a common theme running through much of rap
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
― Ice-T
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/254803.Ice_T
That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.
― Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/05/136022366/rapper-ice-t-reflects-on-life-in-new-memoir
you are only thinking of one type (of over-hyped) rap...
see, anyone can do it! --------^^^
out of, um, lots...(see list)
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The New York-based Native Tongues crew was a collective of like-minded hip hop artists who would help bring abstract and open-minded lyricism that addressed a range of topics, from spirituality and modern living to race, sex, and just having fun to the mainstream. Together with the use of eclectic samples that would take on an increasingly jazzy sound, they would be pioneers of so-called conscious hip hop, alternative hip-hop, and jazz rap.
Fostered by Kool DJ Red Alert, the success of the Jungle Brothers would pave the way for De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest; together, these three groups would form the core of the crew and continue the spirit of Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.
not a crumb of crack and i'm feeling alright...
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