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...like "I'll be stashing marijuana/In my Dolce & Gabbana" from "What They Call Me" and "Best believe where I'm going you a goner/I spit more rhymes than silicone in California" from "Straight Spittin', Part II." Unlike other female rappers, Rah Digga does not rhyme about sexuality or the gangster life: she is a B-girl of the classic mold. In this respect, one could compare Rah Digga to Lauryn Hill, although Rah Digga is probably the better...

Author: By Arts Writers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Albums | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...Word on either side of -a- 25. Notre Dame's Parseghian 27. Word with doctor's or marching 28. Org. that drew fire for its "Got Beer?" ad campaign 29. Quarter-mile paths, perhaps 30. Kenyon, who got the most votes for the AP All-America basketball team 32. Gangster Meyer, an early investor in Las Vegas 33. Come after 35. Research orgs. 37. __ Clemente (Nixon retreat) 39. The U.S. is easing sanctions on this country's luxury products 40. Capp's "__ the Hyena" 43. The Simpsons storekeeper 45. Grid great Marino, who has announced his retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Apr. 3, 2000 | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...film--what its maker calls "a gangster, hip-hop, samurai eastern western"--is about the gang that couldn't shoot straight and the killer for hire who can't stop shooting. The gang is a boneyard of Mafia dinosaurs in North Jersey (Tony Soprano's turf). They stare numbly at old cartoons and are months behind in the rent for their clubhouse. Next to them, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is both modern and ageless. His cyber-age artillery and acute aim make him the ideal hit man. Between gigs he plays hip-hop CDs in whatever car he has stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Samurai Cineaste | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...serious risk of being its director's first hit. That would be nice, because this is his most compelling film and because it's still profoundly weird, a typical Jar-mush of genre bending and ethnic blending, a grafting of European modernism and Japanese mysticism onto an American gangster movie. Caught in this crossfire of the contemplative and the violent, the viewer is kept as off-guard as most of the killers in the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Samurai Cineaste | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...About the intimidation thing, I think a lot of us are intimidated, not by [white] women, but by our own image," Everson added. "If you're not nerdy you're a gangster. We're far from the masculine ideal...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AAA Hosts Panel On Interracial Dating | 3/9/2000 | See Source »

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