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...year is 1995. Vanilla Ice is nothing more than a pop culture joke, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. are alive, and an intensifying “East Coast/West Coast” rivalry is sending hip-hop albums to the top of the charts. In other words, it’s not quite the right moment for a random white guy from the Midwest to embark on the path to rap superstardom...
That the film generally succeeds is a testament to Eminem’s talents as a musician, provocateur and hip-hop thespian. Earlier this year, Britney Spears and Mariah Carey proved remarkably unconvincing in roles as aspiring singers; in comparison to his MTV peers, Eminem’s passable portrayal of a white rapper from Detroit qualifies him as a character actor...
...then great; it’s all about the people,” he says benevolently. Oakenfold also enjoys excursions into Hollywood (besides Swordfish, he’s proud of his brand-new reworking of the James Bond theme) and keeping his chin above dance music. “Hip-hop and rock are currently the two most exciting forms of music out there, not dance,” he says without a drop of irony...
MAKING THE BAND 2 It didn't set the ratings on fire last season , but with Idol fever, MTV figures it's worth another try. This time, P. Diddy runs a hip-hop boot camp. Diddy hogs the spotlight--but at least there's one real star onstage...
DIED. JASON MIZEL, A.K.A. JAM MASTER JAY, 37, one of the forefathers of rap and turntable maestro for the iconic New York rap band Run-DMC, famous for stripping down hip-hop music and injecting it with rock, and for its storming cover of Walk This Way with Aerosmith; by gunmen in New York City. Although street violence has always haunted hip-hop, the music of Run-DMC, known as "the Beatles of Rap," never celebrated gun culture. Rather, with almost religious fervor, it preached unity and peace...