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These are tough times for gangsta rappers. In early December, Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) was charged with assault. Now Puff Daddy (a.k.a. Sean Combs), the Hamptons-partying, Versace-wearing, MTV-approved icon of ghetto-fabulous hip-hop style, is facing a weapons charge after leaving the scene of a shoot-out. And his girlfriend, singer-actor Jennifer Lopez, has been dragged into the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrested Development | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...Scott Fitzgerald had it right: "Culture follows money." And the money--perhaps even the creative zeal--is now in the new media. A radically reshaped culture is beginning to be created there. We can already begin to see what the generation born with a TV remote in its hand, hip-hop on the CD player and a computer screen in its face will do to traditional narrative. They'll speed it up, scramble it--and render it in new tonalities, using new palettes. You can see it in the way Pulp Fiction or Run Lola Run toys with time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts: 100 Years Of Attitude | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...When my sister was ten, she shocked and dismayed me by asking for a Janet Jackson album for Christmas. I took her hip-hop leanings as a decisive divergence from my way of life. Ever-proactive in the department of my sister's cultural development, I was instantly on the job, and on Christmas morning she unwrapped a new Janet Jackson CD and a new 90-minute mix tape from me, titled "Girls with Guitars." Within a few months, the mix tape had triumphed, and she was passing feminist folk music along to her friends--kind of scary...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Creating a Musical Taste | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...turntables or a street uprising--is the most thrilling guitarist in rock today. Because rapper-singer Zack de la Rocha mixes poetry and polemics into song lyrics that would do Chuck D or Bob Dylan proud. Because in a year in which a riot of rockers copped beats from hip-hop, no other band made the rap-rock union resonate with such ferocity and intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Music Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Shawn Feeney: I started doing electronic music in junior high. I learnt piano and bass guitar in high school and was in a death metal band, a progressive punkcore band, a jazz group and Jon's ska band. Oh yeah, I played in Omnipresence, a live hip-hop group last year. All sorts of genres...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's My Number? | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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