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...MUSIC MAN: Next week, MTV Books/Pocket will publish "Aaliyah: More Than a Woman," a mass market paperback original by TIME senior writer Chris Farley, who interviewed hip-hop soul artist Aaliyah not long before her death. According to his publisher, "Farley has talked to dozens of Aaliyah's friends, family members and acquaintances, from the singer's mother to her high school vocal coach to the director of her forthcoming film "The Queen of the Damned," which was completed after her death. Farley also interviewed Aaliyah's celebrity pals and admirers, including her producers Missy Elliot and Timbaland, vocalist Beyonce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Home Cookin' Edition | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

...among at least nine players fined $5,000 apiece by the NBA for wearing shorts too long. Seems the rule is that basketball shorts must stop at least an inch above the knee. It was enforced before, in 1997, when officials thought shorts were overly baggy-saggy a la hip-hop fashion, violating "the integrity of the uniform," in the words of the NBA's Tim Frank. Shaq says he refuses to wear "John Stockton shorts," referring to the Utah Jazz 39-year-old throwback who wears them shortish and tightish. If he did that, Shaq opined, the kids "would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 3, 2001 | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...olds are students. Although her parents in Michigan are immigrants from India and Jones attended all-black elementary and middle schools in Selma, Ala., the two say they have far more similarities than differences. They both attended small, upscale boarding schools; both are career minded. They share tastes for hip-hop music, Thai and Italian food, and shopping at Banana Republic. And they're well educated and affluent, like many interracial couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: When Love Is Mixing It Up | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...very special French water"). He lives with his girlfriend and their 19-month-old son. He models. He acts in movies. He hobnobs with celebrities. He wears Sundance Film Festival T shirts under his robes, trades his puttees for a pair of Prada loafers with ease, and grooves to hip-hop?even though he doesn't understand all the words. His goal, he says, "like all Chan Buddhists, is to live in harmony with my surroundings." So on the streets, he spreads his rapture by wishing everyone who crosses his path a "Merry Christmas"?even in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Habit | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...painstakingly woven samples—over 900, including the first-ever legal Madonna sample (from “Holiday,” no less)—Since I Left You is the definitive Endtroducing… of dance music. Like DJ Sjadow’s bleak hip-hop masterpiece, it is a postmodern collage in which something wonderful is invented from scraps of nothing. But far from being a threatening cut-n-paste dystopia, this music wraps itself lovingly around your ears, the warm crackle of vinyl always audible in the mesh...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Electronica from Down Under | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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