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...bought N.W.A.’s album [Straight Outta Compton] in, like, the fourth grade, and my parents made me return it,” Walsh said. “And so, the fact that I couldn’t listen to it made me very interested, so I just started getting into it from there...
...title of Young Buck's first solo project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
...including "Let Me In," a club hit with a catchy staccato melody, and "Look At Me Now," in which a reflective Buck raps about "what these streets done done to me" over a bouncy beat by Denaun Porter (who produced the steel pan anthem "P.I.M.P." for 50 Cent). Unlike Compton, however, Ca$hville fails to inspire any awe or fear of Southern street culture. It is Tennessee, after...
...power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I hereby pronounce you partners for life." THE REV. KIM CRAWFORD HARVIE, minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, as she married David Wilson and Robert Compton, one of the first gay couples in Massachusetts to wed after same-sex marriages became legal last week...
...arrogance and simplistic, black-and-white thinking ensures that this Administration will never recognize error in its radical policies. If the climate in Washington is poisoned, it is because of the meanspirited, self-righteous tone set by the Bush White House. There is a failure of leadership. JOHN T. COMPTON New York City...