Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...
Despite the latest truce, the gang problem is growing...
Most members believe that gangs will survive no matter what law enforcement does. Joseph ("Downer") Cardenas, 16, a member of a South Central Chicano gang, was charged last week with felony assault with a shotgun. (He has denied the charge.) He recently asked his 11-year-old brother whether he wanted to be a gang banger. He was happy to hear the boy say no. Yet the chances are better than even that the youngster will follow in Joseph's footsteps. Joseph didn't want to be a gang banger either, but he followed the path paved by another Cardenas...
...wouldn't have been like my brother, and I don't want my little brother to be a gang member," Joseph said after his arraignment. "But I was born and raised in South Central, and gangs are all that I see. That's the only alternative I've got, and I have to take what comes. It's pitiful," he says. "A lot of people die, and it keeps going on. But it's like a ball rolling and rolling. There's no solution to it. There are just always going to be gangs...
...whom, according to Rock the Vote, cast a ballot in last February's primary. Future plans include a Sept. 15 TV special on voting featuring myriad famous faces, sponsored by youth- conscious Pepsi, and broadcast on the consciously hip Fox network, home to Bart Simpson and the trendy gang from Beverly Hills...