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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diminutive Wayne, himself a Hot Boy, ran taunting jabs on that blowup wax. Other than the chantworthy tag lines of tracks like "Fuck Tha World" and "Watcha Wanna Do," there is little in the lyrics department worthy of the rewind button, although dwell on the bounce beat in the background and everything will be all right. A notable exception is "Drop It Like It's Hot," which you've heard if you've made it to any decent hip-hop clubs. It's obvious that even Lil Wayne knew he was better off as part of the flaming ones...

Author: By Franklin Leonard, | Title: Album Review: Lil Wayne | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

Bennett's refined, somewhat subdued manner belies his powerful singing on the album, but that's only one of the surprising things about him. "My background musically?" he repeats, and laughs, "I played the French horn in high school for six years." Beyond this musical experience, and a few years in show choir, Bennett has had no other formal musical training; he taught himself how to play the guitar six years...

Author: By Myung Joh, Jennifer Liao, and Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Finding Release | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Sometimes all of that green text on a black background can get a little old. If you'd like to make your telnet session a little more stimulating, try changing the colors of your text and background. It goes a little something like this...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ABC's of CRT | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...Create a new scheme if you wish or just change the current one. To change colors click on the color box below the word foreground (your text color) or below background (self explanatory...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ABC's of CRT | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

First, some background. We were devolving here, "Lord of the Flies"-style, a platoon of 59 punks, most just out of high school but some with wives and lives and jobs, who had come to the Army for a fatherly whipping and instead had gotten Kafka's castle - a supposedly all-knowing, all-seeing complete shambles of a bureaucracy that couldn't even be bothered to take us for an occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Sergeant — It Is Night and I Am Jogging | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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