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...much street cred here. But Dash doesn't need any. At only 32, he is CEO of a $500 million company. Beyond the fact that he's a hip-hop executive, Dash defies easy characterization. He loves the disco rhythms of Blondie. He has seen friends gunned down in his Harlem neighborhood, yet he attended an exclusive New York City prep school and played lacrosse in Connecticut. "Do you know how hard it was to come back to my neighborhood in penny loafers with khaki pants and a blazer?" Dash asks. And he recently produced comeback singles for the former...
Dash's new business plan fits him like a Roc-A-Fella hoodie. This fall he started Roc Music, the first hip-hop company to produce rock, alternative and R. and B. He's flipping the turntables: over the past decade, pundits have lauded rap for "going mainstream" and finding suburban skater punks far from the smoked-out city neighborhoods where the music was founded. With Roc Music, Damon Dash is formally inviting rock into the hip-hop world. "I've had 20 albums go gold or platinum," he says. "Why can't I have that in rock, soul...
Diversification is part of a hip-hop mogul's DNA. Russell Simmons, the godfather of urban marketing, and Sean (P. Diddy) Combs have set the standard. To really make it in the $5 billion rap business, you have to mix more than beats. You have to be into fashion, movies and maybe even a Broadway play. Simmons founded Def Jam records and runs Phat Fashions, a $263 million clothing line, and produced Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. P. Diddy, a star recording artist, also runs Bad Boy Records, a $325 million clothing line and two restaurants...
...cornerstone title track of his sophomore effort, Brother Ali tallies up the qualities that herald Shadows on the Sun, professing a proclivity towards old-school beats, refreshingly articulate vocal delivery and an assured baring of his albino soul. The finest product of the Minneapolis hip-hop scene, Brother Ali—with the help of reliable producer Ant—clears a nice path for his inevitable mainstream invasion...
...folks EMINEM has offended over the years--gays, women, his mother--the blond rapper seemed to avoid insulting African Americans. Until, that is, hip-hop magazine The Source dug up some Eminem juvenilia: "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/but black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks" are some of the milder lyrics on the tape. Responding to charges of racism, Eminem issued a statement saying the song was recorded after he broke up with a black girlfriend and "made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager." Hey, man, some of us just...