"I had these very small ideas," Yorke recalls, "just beats mostly.
K'naan, on the other hand, uses African (and not just Somalian) elements in true beats, mostly for flavor or a very well-understood sense of the value of novelty in pop music, including Pygmy water music, which I recommended to beatmakers more than a decade ago.
Throughout their career they've experimented with a large plethora of beats, mostly leaning towards the coupling of shreddy-rock and high-octane electro, as well as the occasional interlacing of popular hip-hop samples.
Add to that the difficulty of beating (mostly male) incumbents, sexism from the media, the contemporary view of congressional politics (the young women she knows mostly see "white men shouting at each other," said Shames), and a grueling campaign schedule likely to put off anyone with significant family responsibilities.
His stepfather beat him, mostly because the boy was too light-skinned for his taste.
Later, they continued irrationally to beat people, mostly those walking or running on their own, when a verbal instruction to leave the area would have been enough.
Deployed by Mr. Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party, they hurled stones and beat protesters, mostly whites, in an overwhelmingly black crowd.
The Cherry Blossoms beat a mostly second-string Wales 23-8 in Tokyo in Lions year, 2013 – a match current Welsh fly-half Dan Biggar played in, when his counterpart kicker Ayumu Goromaru accumulated 13 points.
Nicki and Bey don't so much ride this beat, which mostly consists of a nagging whistle, as make it bend in accordance with the whims of their voices: "I stop the world!" Beyoncé crows.
If your primary criterion for success is economic performance per square metre, it's hard to beat the mostly immigrant micro-entrepreneurs that LSE ethnographer Suzi Hall studied in a project called Ordinary Streets.
