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...latest CD the gangsta rapper addresses nuclear proliferation, explores the "digital divide" between blacks and whites, quotes liberally from Hegel...nah, we're just playin'. Dre's album is mostly about weed, "bitches" and guns, just as you'd expect. Still, some of the beats are fresh and involving, and Dre's collaborations with Eminem and Snoop Dogg have ferocity and wit. But you have to wonder: Can gangsta themes age gracefully? Will Dr. Dre 2041 find an older, wiser Dre boasting about the benefits of marijuana for glaucoma...
Rappers have been scaring up huge sales lately, mostly by brandishing their thug-life credentials. Just ask DMX, Dre or Master P. But Smith borrows a page from Puffy's handbook: You can lure more folks to a party than to a rumble. Willennium is a sample-happy pop-rap smorgasbord that draws on the jiggier hits of the Clash, Michael Jackson and, believe it or not, Tito Puente. Smith throws a few elbows at rappers who call him soft--"Yeah, Microsoft," he answers. But Willennium really has one thing on its mind: G-rated fun. And it delivers...
NAME: OutKast, the "OutKlassed" OCCUPATION: Upstart rappers AGES: 23 (Dre); 24 (Boi) BEST PUNCH: The duo, Dre and Big Boi, say the song (sample lyrics: "Ah ha, hush that fuss/ Everybody move to the back of the bus") is an homage to Parks, and the group's record company is standing by its "right to creative expression...
...selling 1 million copies, but not everyone is laughing. Billboard magazine, in an unusual editorial, blamed the rapper for "exploiting the world's misery." Perhaps, but at 26 Eminem (whose real name is Marshall Mathers) has his own burdens to carry. As the first rapper on superproducer Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, Eminem's success is vital to the future of the label. And as a white rapper, with the discredited image of Vanilla Ice still looming in the background, he very much needs to score points in the credibility column. So forging beyond the familiar drive-bys of gangsta...
N.W.A. "Of cops, dying in L.A. / Yo Dre, I got something to say F_____ tha police...