While other artists have embraced the violence of gangsta rap acts like N.W.A. or the materialism of rappers like Sean Puffyy" Combs, De La Soul has stuck to making music that mixes a good-time party vibe with rhymes that have intellectual weight.
(See: "Microsoft Plays Apple's Tune").. Microsoft didn't totally unsheathe the player but instead handed out bits of information about the device, which is a departure for the company: With the exception of its Xbox game consoles, it traditionally has stuck to making software for computers and devices, and has let hardware manufacturers make their own gadgets.
"I should have stuck to what's made me successful," Osgood said today.
That move drew criticism from those who believed Kaymer should have stuck to what earlier made him so successful.
"It's bizarre," said Marc Parcé of Domaine de la Rectorie in Banyuls, a town in the French region of Roussillon that has stuck to its roots, making delicious sweet wine despite the fact that doing so is less and less commercially viable.
This matters because they could have stuck to the facts and easily made a different creative choice: why not display rave reviews for the single and her subsequent comeback album rather than lying about how high it charted?
Having stuck to his promise made last week to follow the US and Britain in refusing to pay ransoms to terrorists, Japan's conservative leader now faces a demand of a different kind: a prisoner swap.
And he has stuck to his policy of making banks shed bad loans from their books, despite widespread criticism that bankruptcy rates are already too high.Even before this election, however, there were signs that the most painful bits of Mr Koizumi's agenda were not especially popular.
They've stuck to their philosophy and have made it to where they are now.
Video games have become increasingly sophisticated, and fantasy sports leagues have surged in popularity, but APBA, like its rival Strat-O-Matic, has stuck to the basic format that made it successful.
