20 - Wednesday, February 7, 1990 - North Shore News

music

This rap beats the rap

AP AND laugh with
fR ie and Will; fly a

Kite; turn an ear to
Primitive vibes; groove to
islamic exhortations.

D.J. Jazzy jeff & The Fresh Prince
— And In This Corner..., BMG
Records 1989

And in this corner we find rap
with a smirk.

Rap regularly takes the rap for its
endemic boasting and common
affirmation of sexist values.

But the relatively wholesome
D.J. and Prince managed to rack
up 2.5 million in U.S. sales alone
for He's The Dj, I'm The Rapper.
They pocketed American Music
Awards, the original Grammy for
the freshly-minted rap category
and an MTV Music award in the
process.

A cut from that release, Parents
Just Don't Understand, brought
accessible humor to the genre and
also helped solidify rap’s hold on
the teen music market.

Fellow Philadelphians Jeff
Townes and Will Smith win fans
by telling funny tall tales in rhyme.
The rappers sniff glove leather on /
Think | Can Beat Mike Tyson and

MICHAEL
BECKER

record review

talk facial hair on The Girlie Had A
Moustache. The rappers play
Vancouver Feb. 11.

Kirsty MacColl — Kite, Virgin Re-
cords 1989

Prior to this debut, she’s been
heard as the embittered love in-
terest of Pogues rogue Shane
MacGowan on the classic
Christmas duet, Fairytale of New
York,

She's also tracked profile-raising
cuts with the Stones, Van Morrison
and Robert Plant. Come solo time,
she’s called in some chips, snagg-
ing the ubiquitous Steve Lillywhite
to produce and drop some bass
lines. Smiths alumnus Johnny Marr
co-writes and strums on You And
Me Baby with Pink Floyd veteran
David Gilmour.

The result is consistent. And the
strength isn’t solely due to the

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MacColl has the knack of draw-
ing one in with the soft, melan-
cholic lilt of her voice. Listen
carefully and the lyrics bite back.
Among the stinging memorable,
What Do Pretty Girls Do? offers an
uncompromising look at a party
gir! running out of time. MacColl's
at her finest on songs like No Vic-
tims, where she deflates smother-
ing cynicism and emerges all the
stronger for her travail.

The Primitives — Pure, BMG Re-
cords 1989

More dream-zone jangling from

the U.K. The Primitives fall into a
See Primitive’s
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NO RUN-of-the-mill riff-rap, D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince clown
okay in a rhyming way.

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