Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best punk albums, the ones that stay with you, the ones that matter, share a secret. Take Rancid's strong new album, Life Won't Wait. Rancid is a band that, in its songs, inhabits a tough, gritty world of drinking, joblessness, back-alley drug deals and disillusioned immigrants; a world where corporations crush workers, governments lie to their citizens, and punk rock offers one of the few paths toward salvation. The songs on the California-based band's new album have names like Bloodclot, Black Lung and Cash, Culture & Violence; the guitar work is raw and roaring...
...sort of homage to longtime Lethal Weapon fans, the film ends with a not-quite-maudlin finale that merges with a multi-picture photo album underlay of the credits, but the real end of the movie comes fifteen minutes earlier, when Murtaugh and Riggs clasp each other and pause for a moment after vanquishing the last villain. They have come a long way from their early days, and the scene captures that feeling even for those who don't know the duo's history. Like that scene, the movie as a whole takes both characters a step past their development...
Although he is short in stature, Dupri is not short on self-confidence. Asked if he was intimidated by the rap stars on his album, he replies, "I feel like I could rap better than all of them if I wanted to. But that's not what I do--I'm a producer. But if I was a full-time rapper, they'd be intimidated by me. That's how I see it." And he fends off Puffy comparisons by asserting, "The shoes I wear are a whole lot bigger than the shoes that he wears. I'm more hands...
...creating songs that sound of the moment but are so sturdily constructed that they may be radio staples for years to come. Five songs he co-wrote and co-produced are currently on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart. His best recent work includes Usher's sleek album My Way, whose songs were almost all co-written and co-produced by Dupri, and the female vocal group Xscape's CD Traces of My Lipstick, which features several elegantly funky Dupri-penned songs...
Dupri expects his album to be a hit, but no matter how it does, he says he had to make it. "It's like Michael Jordan when he went off to play baseball," he says. "People didn't understand why. But there was a baseball player in him--maybe not a good one--but there was one. Same with me. There's an artist in me--it may not be a good one, I don't know. But I think the art is good...