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This type of transformation isn't easy for hip-hop performers, RZA admits, noting, "We've had accountants quit on us saying, 'I can't take it. I don't know if I'm gonna get punched in my face if I f___ up.' It's not that we're gonna punch someone in the face. It's just that we talk different from them and they take it the wrong...
...ANGELO, VOODOO: Slick as chicken grease. Hotter than summer asphalt. D'Angelo summoned old ghosts - Jimi and Marvin - and woke up a new artistic spirit in R&B. Voodoo is a ménage à trois of soul, hip-hop and jazz, all tangled up like lovers caught in the act. Even as D'Angelo pays homage to music's past, he proves the future is in good hands...
...corner of Stevie Wonder Street and Hip-Hop Avenue, just a few short blocks from Billie Holiday Boulevard, stands the music of singer-songwriter Erykah Badu. She's not in a real place, of course, but in a bit of musical territory she has imagined into being. With a towering headwrap that's both vaguely African and vaguely Dr. Seussian, her slender form decked out in earth-goddess colors, she looks like nobody else in popular music. Her voice cutting like a subtle blade, her beats pumping like block parties, she mixes myriad influences in her work, but winds...
Dash wanted to bolster this tiny club--by adding at least one, himself, to their number. While a freshman at the University of Southern California, he launched a successful hip-hop record label. When the Internet began to take off, he used the profits to start DME. He self-financed the company for the first 4 1/2 years, raising a couple of hundred thousand dollars from family and friends...
...title (didn't you expect something like Jive-in' with the Homies?). The Boys prefer to leave its meaning ambiguous, perhaps because the label chose the title and they're as befuddled as we are, but the consensus is that the "black" refers to their transparent, futile attempts at hip-hop while the "blue" calls attention to their nauseating love songs...