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...It followed her duet with Davido, “Na Money”. There were numerous other guests during the set....
...following Tupac’s ode to “the brown bottle”, as the rap icon called Hennessy a “favorite of his homies when they floss on their enemies” We can’t accept that....
...Name your favourite river.The Eas Na Ghail, Argyll, a little burn which runs from Ben Lui down to Loch Awe....
...If you listen to Pigmeat Markham, Teddy Pendergrass, George Clinton or even James Brown, they’re talking shit just like rappers do today . . ....
...Soon, magazine editors and artists such as Lil Nas X were buying his boots from fashion shoot sets....
...basketball player Russell Westbrook floating along a Manhattan sidewalk in a shin-grazing Thom Browne skirt; or the many rappers who have donned dresses, blouses and babushka scarves, including ASAP Rocky, Lil Nas...
...Helen Brown’s intriguing review of “Mah-Nà Mah-Nà” (“An absurd earworm made popular by The Muppets”, Life of a Song, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, December 12) neglected to mention that it was sung by both Liverpool...
...The problem lies in the narration, which comes courtesy of the American rapper Nas....
...I may have benefited from my brown male privilege, speaking bits of several Asian languages, my prayer beads and my beard....
...At Casa na Terra the view had been rugged with a vantage of the lake. Here, we looked at a landscape dotted with gleaming brown horses; a herd of goats sipped from the pool....
...of 1970s brown suede boots by Yves Saint Laurent, which I bought from Kerry Taylor Auctions....
...The latter element is signalled by the album’s last track, a remix of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, the rap-country megahit that yee-hawed its way to the top of the US charts for 19 consecutive weeks last...
...Melissa Ingabire takes on the surprising ascendance of country music, via Lil Nas X and Kacey Musgraves. Alec Russell describes meeting the 89-year-old Irish novelist Edna O'Brien....
...Lil Nas X and “Old Town Road” aside, Westernalia does not seem a natural fit for young Hollywood in 2020....
...But in company heartlands the fuel was seen as “brown gold”, providing vital income....
...Those gaining awards this year include Roberts Recycling, a company that exports second-hand clothing; Orbital, which runs international schools; and NA Brown, which makes brushes for road sweepers....
...“Aiku, Aiku nde” means “God is watching”; “Jacouman fi na” is “Jacouman causes it”; “Ida-n-de” means “We will be emancipated”; “Jacouman fi na dé” is “Jacouman urges it; we will wait”....
...Highlights include Nancy Spero’s feminist installation “Sheela-Na-Gig at Home” (1996) — washing lines strung with images of the titular fertility goddess interspersed with women’s underwear — and Alfredo...
...With a subdued palette of black, white and brown, these understated objects are both conceptually sophisticated and exquisite....
...Na . . . tashka . . . (she’ll be so surprised when I tell her how I saw the sovereign!) Natashka . . . take the tashka . . . Na-tashka, at-tack a . . . yes, yes, yes. That’s good.’...
...It is a role that has always been present in rap, as when another still-active veteran, Nas, sampled James Brown’s “The Boss” in his 2002 classic “Get Down”....
...The yellow carved sections gleamed from the brown bark....
...The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, Yale University Press, RRP£16.99/$25 Hailed by Colm Tóibín not only as “the greatest novel to be written in the Irish language...
...But when the call came from Gordon Brown, then prime minister, he accepted the challenge....
...“It’s quite challenging because there are ‘Brown Eggs’ and then ‘Coloured Eggs’. You’ve got five pale ones there and a brown one that doesn’t match....
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