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Last week Efil4zaggin -- "niggaz4life" backwards -- was the best-selling pop album in America. It was at the very top of Billboard's main chart -- without benefit of a video on MTV, without the help of a hit single and, most amazingly, without getting much play on radio stations, most of which never received promotional copies. Efil4zaggin has sold so many copies (more than 1 million) in its three weeks of release that it has sailed to the No. 1 position. That means it's the biggest thing in the music business at the moment...
This makes for some interesting distinctions in the group's audience. Timothy White, editor of Billboard, thinks N.W.A.'s attraction for white male teens is "danger at a safe distance." Jon Shecter, the Harvard-educated editor of The Source, a monthly journal of hip-hop culture, points out that although "it's a cool status symbol among white kids to like and identify with N.W.A., most of the black community doesn't like them. There's a lot of positive, intelligent rap out there, and N.W.A. is negative to the extreme...
...days, playing small clubs, so you get a pretty good idea of how your set is going down." The ex-Beatle's set went down so well that he has released a limited-edition, 500,000-copy recording of the session, which debuted last week at No. 14 on Billboard's chart of Top Pop Albums...
...sampled items from the dance floor. The upper reaches of the charts have been overwhelmed by performers like Paula Abdul, laying down bass-ballasted club tunes that keep your booty shaking while your brain shrivels to the size of a snow pea. The last rock record to top the Billboard pop chart was Motley Crue's inglorious Dr. Feelgood, and that was almost two years ago. Just a few weeks back, Billboard's Top 50 had a total of five rock albums. Well, you said you want a revolution...
Beyond wealth without risk, what else should a 21st century American mecca offer its pilgrims? How about eternal life? Social worker Jerry Schall, 46, claims to have discovered the Fountain of Youth near Orlando, and five years ago rented billboard space in his hometown of Philadelphia to advertise its existence. (Schall claims that the miraculous rill is somewhere in the woods, a 35-minute drive from Disney World.) He says he was "disillusioned" with the apathetic response he received, but who needs the Fountain of Youth when Disney's own powers of rejuvenation are well known? "The place makes...