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ICE CUBES: The Last Ten Days in Hip-Hop
As far as hip-hop goes, this week was a solid one. Real solid.
ICE CUBES: The Last Ten Days in Hip-Hop
As far as hip-hop goes, this week was a solid one. Real solid. While I’ll have shots and news about Floetry’s Marsha Ambrosious hitting 32 Degrees for a CD release party in this week’s Icepack Illustrated, let’s start with the gents: Lupe Fiasco has been out and about on a pre-CD release tour for Lasers, which came out today (March 8). Lasers is a big deal since the guy that dropped the platinum selling The Cool was talking about retiring. Squash that Lupe. The last time I ran into him at The People Speak Howard Zinn History Channel event in University City in 2009, he was having second thoughts. Good thing. The single “Words I Never Said” is all over the socio-political landscape for its incisive language and the entirety of Lasers is red hot. Plus Philly is represented on the new CD with an appearance by John Legend so that works.
Wiz Kalifah held a listening party at Power 99's Xfinity Performance Theater the other day. If you don’t know Wiz, your windows and doors have been locked for a long time. He’s this week’s Rolling Stone cover face. You can go nowhere without hearing “The Race” and his album, Rolling Papers, is probably this year’s most anticipated CD since…. Lasers. Plus, his Philly connection is that he’s been working with Snoop Dogg on Doggumentary and that mess is being producerd by Philly hitmaker Scott Storch. Sing it.
As far as hip-hop goes – and it goes back – no one helped influence its movement more than the late choreographer Alvin Ailey and his principle dancer, Germantown’s Judith Jaminson who has been the artistic director of the Ailey company forever. She’s retiring from the post and held a happy performance and after party at the Academy of Music and its upstairs ballroom where Patti LaBelle, City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown (a one-time Philadanco dancer) State Sen. Vincent Hughes and his mom, Ann Hughes, attended. Mrs Hughes taught tap dance to Jamison who in turn taught the world. That’s how the cycle works.
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