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...actress (in last year's action hit Romeo Must Die) and hip-hop soul singer (her third CD, Aaliyah, on Blackground/ Virgin, came out last week) is talking gleefully about a love scene in her next movie. It's Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned, and Aaliyah, 22, plays the boss vampire Akasha. "Akasha is very manipulative," she says. "She and Lestat [a character played by Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire and by Stuart Townsend here] get into a tub, and I seduce him. So I had to kiss him on the chest and draw blood...
...bill, handpicked by Moby, is exuberantly multiracial and gender friendly and features some of the top acts in hip-hop, pop, rock and dance music. Many industry veterans believe it will be the very definition of a noble failure. "Idealistically, it's a great concept," says Gary Bongiovanni, editor in chief of tour industry bible Pollstar. "Whether it's financially practical is another matter...
...just three years Benveniste built an army of more than 30,000 kids who distribute swag to their pals in what he calls "hand-to-hand promotion." Clients included Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead and Limp Bizkit. Next: hip-hop, electronics, films, fashion and, perhaps someday, even politics. "We want to become the voice of today's kids," says Benveniste, "empowering them to bond together and giving them something to belong to." But giving them some free stuff first...
...three hours at a time in places such as Ljubljana, Slovenia, that most Americans haven't heard of. That's an everlasting statement of their commitment to the craft, and it's one of the criteria that separate them from the Wu-Tang Clan and other great hip-hop acts. Wu-Tang has as many seeds of interest across the world as the Roots do, but you have to go to each one of those seeds and water them. You've got to be able to get in front of the public and make your music come to life...
...sake of popularity. A lot of groups are dumbing themselves down to be popular with a whole bunch of 13- and 14-year-olds. The Roots, whose members are mostly in their late 20s, say, "Forget that. We're not kids. We're not pretending to be. We're hip-hop, and we'll lay it out on the line, and eventually we'll attract them...