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SL: History is filled with white people who have tried to become blacker. Take Elvis Presley... even today, groups like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Culture is for everybody, but there is a difference between appreciating a culture and appropriating a culture.

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: About Face: An Interview with Spike Lee | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

Bringing Down the Horse, despite huge sales, was an affable album with a couple of wildly catchy songs (notably One Headlight and 6th Avenue Heartache) and more than a few skippable ones. Breach lacks the grabby singles, but overall it's a more consistent work than the Wallflowers' last release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Into The Breach | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

Q. He's got Elvis hair. I wish we had done this before, when we were sober.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny Thompson | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

The K.C. Line Having been hurt too many times before, the K.C. Line jumped off the Chief's bandwagon last week. The K.C. Line regrets this. He has since replanted his ass firmly back on said wagon, and it's staying right there until Elvis Grbac comes back down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

Viewed in the context of Black music in America over the past century, there's nothing surprising about hip-hop "crossing over." Blues and jazz crossed over in the 1920s, when whites rushed to Harlem to hear the music. In the 1930s, jazz became - for whites - "swing." When Black musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Hip-Hop Is the Most Important Youth Culture on the Planet' | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

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