http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/ The Web's top The Underground news from ShowHype - find more at http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/ en ShowHype http://backend.userland.com/rss http://images.showhype.com/media/img/showhype/logo_120x60.png http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/ 120 60 http://showhype.com/article/tech_thriller_daemon_rises_from_the_underground/ <p>You may never have heard of Daemon author Leinad Zeraus, but get ready to hear a lot about Daemon author Daniel Suarez. </p><p>Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: <a href="http://showhype.com/television/">Television</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/">The Underground</a></p> http://showhype.com/article/tech_thriller_daemon_rises_from_the_underground/ Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:38:29 +1900 Television The Underground http://showhype.com/article/t_i_s_swagger_like_us_collabo_and_more_top_underground/ <p> Big Boi, Shawty Lo and Joe Budden also make the list. By Shaheem Reid T.I. Photo: Getty Images/ Evan Agostini "No one on the corner got swagger like these four guys." Lil Wayne was correct; it was an event, a milestone &#8212; Weezy, Jay-Z , Kanye West and T.I. on "Swagger Like Us." The record brought together a cross section of cities on wax and four out of the top-10 MCs in the game. "No one on the corner got swagger like us." Hell yeah, M.I.A. &#8212; the track's producer Kanye West used her voice as a secret weapon, another musical firearm to go along with that sumo-heavy bass and marching-band drum line. It arrived out of nowhere (leaked several weeks before its strategically planned debut) and immediately became an anthem for sports teams and anybody in the club. The record also became a favorite of some MCs to freestyle on, trying to prove they too belonged on the all-star track. "Swagger" might have been our Hip-Hop Song of the Year (an honor that went&nbsp;...</p><p>Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: <a href="http://showhype.com/celebrities/">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/music/t_i/">T.I.</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/">The Underground</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/music/lil_wayne/">Lil Wayne</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/music/kanye_west/">Kanye West</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/music/jay_z/">Jay-Z</a></p> http://showhype.com/article/t_i_s_swagger_like_us_collabo_and_more_top_underground/ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +1900 Celebrities T.I. The Underground Lil Wayne Kanye West Jay-Z http://showhype.com/article/doc_on_pbs_the_independent_lens/ <p>Immy Humes films her father, a once lauded writer who became a mentally ill fixture on college campuses. > " Doc ," which airs tonight as part of the PBS series "The Independent Lens," is a daughter's film about a difficult father. Immy Humes is the filmmaker; her subject is Harold L. Humes -- nicknamed Doc after a genius in the "Buck Rogers" comic strip -- whose marquee claim to fame is that he co-founded the literary journal the Paris Review , though he didn't stick around long to run it. He also wrote two well-received novels, " The Underground City " (1958) and " Men Die " (1959), and ran Norman Mailer's first campaign for mayor of New York City. Interviewed here, the late Mailer calls Humes "one of the few people I have ever met who was . . . more vain, more intellectually arrogant than I was," which, given the source, must be accounted great praise. </p><p>Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: <a href="http://showhype.com/television/">Television</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/television/independent_lens/">Independent Lens</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/movie/buck_rogers/">Buck Rogers</a>, <a href="http://showhype.com/television/the_underground/">The Underground</a></p> http://showhype.com/article/doc_on_pbs_the_independent_lens/ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:54:47 +1900 Television Independent Lens Buck Rogers The Underground