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...None of us drive Bentleys. The closest thing I have to ‘bling-bling’ is a couple of quarters in my pocket,” says Christopher, who was brought on board by store president Andrew Mwase. “We consider ourselves almost a higher plane...
...Massive Records is certainly not about the ‘bling-bling,’ nor does it aspire to be. It’s Boston’s underground scene they want to support, and the atmosphere inside is appropriately down to earth. Spend a few minutes inside, and one of the owners will try to engage you in conversation. If you’re not already a hip hop devotee, they will try to educate you. They sat this reporter down with the hip hop DVD Keep Right from KRS One—“required learning?...
...question sheepishly revealed that his own gift wasn’t exactly the epitome of reciprocity: a sterling silver key chain. “But it’s a nice one, it’s from Tiffany’s!” he protested. How ho-hum. Bling or not, this boy’s babe got served...
Even Better than the Real Bling Ali Hewson's motive was simple: "I would prefer to know that the clothes I buy for my children weren't made by someone else's children." Like her rock-star husband, Bono, Hewson is a doer, so she set up Edun, a clothing line manufactured with ethical production methods and meant to create sustainable employment in developing countries. "We wanted to show that you can make a for-profit business where everybody in the chain is treated well," she says. With factories set to roll in Peru and Tunisia, and a third planned...
Dating back to the Beastie Boys, rap has long had a diverse fringe, but Chinese-American rapper Jin, left, and others are giving the field a fresh infusion of ethnic energy. Their focus? Politics and spirituality, not babes and bling. --By Jeremy Caplan...