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...Method and Red" - because when you think hardcore rap, you think wacky suburban comedy! Hip-hop artists Method Man and Redman play themselves, trying to ingratiate themselves with their uptight white neighbors in a suburban gated community...
...watching "Joey," "Survivor" or "The O.C." in its new time slot anyway.) Which means that next season we get not one but two editions of Tyra Banks' ingenious masterpiece of ambition and bitchiness. Bridging the months between them will be "The Missy Elliott Project," which UPN describes as a hip-hop version of "Top Model," in which a group of aspiring performers hits the road to get their freak on and compete to become her protege...
...FASSIE, 39, South Africa's first globally renowned black pop star; from an asthma-induced heart attack; in Johannesburg. Called the Madonna of the Townships, the diminutive diva was known as much for her hot temper, lesbian affairs and drug abuse as for her music-a pulsating blend of hip-hop, reggae and African rhymes known as kwaito that emerged from South Africa's benighted shantytowns in the 1990s...
...better, well, be cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie runs a record label that's in debt...
...DODD, 72, pioneering producer who helped define ska and reggae and popularize Jamaican music throughout the world; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"--makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers--which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture. He launched several record labels, signing the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers...