Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music stops. The crowd parts. Muhammad Ali arrives. He's only the appetizer. The score to Rocky booms over the speakers. Only then does Puffy enter, in a light-colored three-piece suit. Forget being street. He's Wall Street, he's Madison Avenue, he's le Champs Elysees. Donald Trump is at his side. It's Puffy's moment. His album No Way Out played on some familiar gangsta themes, but it's a smash hit. Puffy is a household name, a brand name. In fact his name comes up again and again, in gossip columns and other people...
...never did do that SNL skit about the hooker. She says she feels too connected to hip-hop to do a movie or TV role that might compromise the message in her music. She addresses the crowd. "I'm just a vehicle through which this thing moves," she says. "It's not about me at all." You think back to some of the rappers you've talked to--Jay-Z, Nas, the Roots, Grandmaster Flash. A record cues up in your mind: "Ain't no stopping...
Following the Crowd...
...creaky lectern in front of a crowd of fidgeting guys wearing see-through earphones and bad ties, their heavily made-up faces hidden as they hang their heads in shame and prurient interest...
Just as important to Combs' popularity is the high-style, fun-loving, money-making persona he cultivates. After the murders of B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, many music fans soured on gangsta rap's verbal gunslinging. Combs' videos portrayed a stylish, monied crowd more concerned with the good life than living out gangster fantasies--"ghetto high fashion," he calls it. Offstage too Combs cuts a swashbuckling figure. In white-on-white suits and a black bowler, he is chauffeured around in a Bentley, and hangs his hat in a cavernous $14 million Manhattan mansion that he shares with his girlfriend...