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Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.
Hoodlum , directed by Bill Duke, tells the story of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, a black gangster who did battle with mobster Dutch Schultz in the 1930s.
The WP runs an op-ed about the movie "Hoodlum" over the by-line of Thomas E.L.
For starters, Hoodlum elevates Johnson's importance at the expense of Stephanie St. Clair, a k a Madame Queen (Cicely Tyson), an immigrant from Martinique who became a numbers millionaire, and for whom Johnson went to work after his release from jail.
origin of infra dig, take the cake, blackball, sand hog, Dutch courage, hoodlum(ism), horse latitudes, flotsam, jetsam, apple-pie bed/apple-pie order, jingo