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...decades since he debuted as a baby-faced teen in Krush Groove and a dozen years since he declared himself still relevant ("Don't call it a comeback/I've been here for years!") on Mama Said Knock You Out. But on Oct. 15, LL will reach an unprecedented hip-hop milestone when he releases his 10th album, 10. "I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I understand why I've lasted," says LL, ne James Todd Smith. "Believe me, if I had a magic formula, I'd be selling it for $50 million...
...Hip-hop could use a magic formula at the moment. Even though Nelly and Eminem are on a trajectory to sell 10 million copies of their most recent albums, the genre is in a profound slump. Sales are down 24% from the same period last year, and the depression isn't merely commercial. For the first time in recent memory, there's genuine apathy among fans and a sense that the music isn't what it used to be. LL Cool J--whose career has risen and fallen but seldom dipped below platinum--suddenly finds himself the genre's wisest...
...Twisted Angel we learn that the real LeAnn Rimes is actually Paula Abdul. The first single, Life Goes On, is passable pop in which Rimes uses her considerable range to overcome dated slang like "daddy mack." The rest of the album is a catastrophe. The songs are poorly written hip-hop/pop hybrids with production so gaudy you'll yearn for the organic sound of a Cher record. And unless your name is R.Kelly, you'll squirm as Rimes marries sex and cliche ("You opened up my world to paradise, so nice!/Feels so good, my body liquefies"). Rimes...
...third Saturday night of his Harvard career, K. Austin Tillery ’06 is chilling to the beat of his extremely pimped-out stereo. His room, with its throbbing hip-hop beat and many self-consciously collegiate posters advertising four years of a raging party, seems closer to the WB’s idea of the typical dorm room than to reality. The pulsing speakers blast songs full of dilemmas. One rapper just doesn’t know what to do with his car full of girls. Another complains, “Every other city...
...rupture, when the ground you’re standing or dancing on sort of falls away.” Far removed from the dreary academicism of the likes of DJ Spooky, /rupture builds upon the sonic foundation laid by Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa. Like those hip-hop pioneers, /rupture creates startling new compositions as a strategy to set things...