Starting with Carrie’s arrival in New York on June 11, 1986, King’s appropriation of “Empire State of Mind” is consistent with his TV-fable of Clintonera egotism (the HBO series hit its stride in the late ’90s). He ignores the realities of urban living that Jay-Z lays out and Keys strives to sing past. Their moral tension makes “Empire” a sociological lovehate torch song; it recalls the radicalism of golden-era rap when hip-hop artists challenged the status quo. SATC2 doesn’t connect with viewers that way; its parade of luxury and entitlement entices viewers into cultural delusions—escapism—that hip-hop once discouraged.
— Sex And The City 2
armond white never fails to deliver
armond white never fails to deliver
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