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...accidentally shooting himself in the chest with a .44-cal. while imitating Travis Bickle in his bedroom. After teenage years that were lost to the comically awful gangsta group Hot Boys (like 'N Sync with shivs), Wayne went solo and undertook a transformation almost unprecedented in hip-hop. Over four years, he morphed from a mediocre rapper with a thuggish point of view into a savant who merges sex, drugs and politics with a sneaky intellect, a freakish knowledge of pop culture and a voice out of the Delta. Whether Wayne is, as he claims, the "best rapper alive...
...Gallagher of the Manchester rock-band Oasis, always good for a comment, stirred things further when he opined to BBC News, "If it ain't broke don't fix it...I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." Gallagher obviously missed previous years' sets from De La Soul, Cypress Hill and the Roots. And while Jay-Z plays on Saturday night, on the other stages Massive Attack, The Ethiopiques, Gilbert O' Sullivan, Simian Mobile Disco and Cansei de Ser Sexy barely wield...
...hitting rock terrain also caused a stink in the states recently. Hip-hop star Kanye West riled Bonaroo festival-goers when his 2:45 a.m. performance was delayed to 4:25 am. Kanye ragged against the criticism, writing on his blog, "This is the maddest I ever will be." Jay-Z responded in his spat in more measured terms, describing the Glastonbury controversy as "ridiculous" on BBC Radio 1's Rap Show. "It's 2008, what is that about? That's such old-school thinking," he said...
...debate has raged among the musical tribes, but the hip-hop vs. rock showdown is a diversion. "It's not fair to blame Jay-Z," Eavis told TIME, instead choosing to blame the weather in typically British fashion, "We've had three years of mud in succession, that was too much to bear, I almost gave up last time." With relentless rain the festival has become a particularly brutal test of endurance, but more fundamentally, Glastonbury has become a victim of its own success...
...cure-all doesn't come cheap. A cycle of stem-cell treatment generally costs $2,000 to $4,000, including the extraction, surgeries and follow-up. (Canine hip-replacement surgeries, however, can be about four times as expensive.) Robert Harman, Vet-Stem's founder, says that because of the steep price tag, he initially thought wealthy horse owners would be his primary clientele. "Turns out there's not quite the same emotional attachment to horses as in the small-animal world," Harman says. "It used to be if your dog got sick, you just got a new dog. Now people...