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...become the hottest brand in rap. And quite apart from the business, its artists have a voice. They "created something that doesn't sound like [it was made by] a guy from New York or somebody from L.A. It's specific to the South," says U.S.C. professor Todd Boyd, author of The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce...
...marauders have mostly been responsible for robberies and muggings, but they have also committed far more serious crimes. In September, Brian Harris, 20, and Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, two students, were abducted near the UCLA campus and murdered by machine-gun fire. The four gang members charged with the crime were apparently after the couple's car. Instances of gang members murdering one another as well as innocent bystanders in vicious "drive by" shootings are up 90% through October...
...talk about religion on Three Wishes, but Christian music is her claim to fame. There's a quasi-spiritual cast to Home Edition (and not just because an itinerant carpenter works miracles across the land). Participants talk openly about prayer, and the show often involves local churches. Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California, attributes this to a greater religious openness in American culture. Boyd draws a connection to TV's coverage of Pope John Paul II's death, which he says made it seem "as though everyone in America had converted overnight...
...celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd to Clapton in 1974, joking onstage with his onetime rival. For a night, at least, the two guitarists had obviously decided...
...Boyd disagreed, saying “the people at the [Hale and Dorr office] are great, but they have a lot to learn...