2023年5月27日 星期六

Hip-hop, wee hours, boa, " find no language to describe them in. ”describe “verbal and visual gems”, weave public-health messages into their rhymes


“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility




Hip-hop's got a message real stealthy:

They're hip-hop artists who weave public-health messages into their rhymes: From left: Sister Fa, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Ali A.K.A. Mind perform at the Skoll World Forum 2023. During this rap, McDaniels called out: "I'm not afraid of the dark anymore/because I am the light./I'll be there at the start of the war/Because I am the fight."


In 2005, Dr. Olajide Williams felt like he had two jobs. Each evening, he'd finish up his work as a physician at Harlem Hospital Center and walk seven blocks to the studio of hip-hop artist and "The Original Human Beat Box" Doug E. Fresh.

"I would be with Doug for hours and hours into the wee hours of the morning," Williams recalls. "We would be going over different beats, different sounds."


 It was the start of an unusual publishing career. Mr. Anobile went on to combine movie frames and dialogue in books that ambitiously reconstructed complete films, including “Casablanca,” “Psycho,” Stagecoach,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “Frankenstein” and “Play It Again, Sam.” He used the same formula to describe “verbal and visual gems” in the films of W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.

A cartoon by Rich Sparks. #NewYorkerCartoons
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boa
/ˈbəʊə/
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noun
plural nounboas
  1. 1.
    constrictor snake which bears live young and may reach great size, native to America, Africa, Asia, and some Pacific islands.
  2. 2.
    a long, thin decorative scarf made of feathers or a similar material, worn by women at parties or as part of fancy dress.
    "a sequinned ballgown and feather boa"

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a cultural movement associated especially with rap music. : the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap. also : rap together with this music. hip-hop adjective.6 days ago


wee hours,
the early hours of
Wee hours mean the early hours of a day, or the period immediately after midnight. They are called so because the word 'wee' in present-day English means 'very small or tiny'. As these hours are the beginning of the new day they came to be referred to as the wee hours.Jan 3, 2010  

Why are the wee hours called so and what is the origin of the ...

Hip-hop Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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