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...Most Ingenious Promotion for a New Album Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was arrested for being an accomplice to murder, enhancing his aura among gangsta-music lovers. Suggested ad line for Doggystyle: Buy this or we'll shoot a bystander...
...profile of Kanye West brought kudos for his sampling of soulful artists as he spins the hip-hop nation away from gangsta rap. His statement, however, at a Hurricane Katrina fund raiser about President Bush and race--two weeks after he appeared on the cover--got a decidedly more mixed response...
West is hardly the first person to bring a Buppie sensibility to rap. In the '80s, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, A Tribe Called Quest and LL Cool J successfully wove suburban perspectives into rebellious music, but when gangsta rap arrived, nuance was smothered by a blanket of extreme poses. Tupac Shakur, once a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts, died with THUG LIFE tattooed across his torso. On The College Dropout, West found a way to bridge the divide without self-destruction. His follow-up, Late Registration, arrives Aug. 30 and continues to mix race...
...have got to admit that the track’s unprintable analogy comparing his flow to a Sapphic sex act is shamefully ridiculous) so it’s worth a once-over. And the chorus is catchy in a nostalgic, “hey, remember how great synth-based gangsta rap was?” sort of way. Remember how scared your parents were of you getting shot by gangs? I was fat, and couldn’t run fast, so my parents were especially worried...
...song of the bunch. And I’d forgotten that the lyrics are all about how great South Central L.A. is and how “tough” he is. But dude sounds like he has a French accent. That’s just…not gangsta. You, the reader, need to recommune with this song and figure out for yourself just how you’re going to come to terms with your actions during the Reign of Montell Jordan. Soulless R&B is the worst kind of anything...