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...bigger kitchen. That's where Brooklyn's beauty secret for the past 12 years, Carol's Daughter, brews 350 types of skin- and hair-care products with homemade appeal and tropical scents. Founder Price, 34, joined forces eight months ago with ex--record executive Steve Stoute, and the hip-hop and business matchmaker recruited seven investors--including rapper Jay-Z, former Sony mogul Tommy Mottola and Will Smith--to put the bling--$10 million--into the brand. So far, it seems, the money has been well spent. "There's some fairy-tale dust going on," says Stoute--who previously paired...
...debut album, Loco Motive, was just released on the Muzik Mafia's Warner Bros. imprint, Raybaw (red and yellow, black and white) Records. Says Troy: "I'm rapping over pedal-steel guitar, lap steel, Dobro, fiddle and other country instruments. In the Muzik Mafia we call it hick-hop, and we think its time has come. Country is ready to expand its boundaries." There are signs he may be right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album for Loretta Lynn...
...banjo as Troy's deep, rat-a-tat-tat delivery flies by. But it does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified. "Can't spell rap without crap" and "NOT COUNTRY ... A SICK DISGRACE" are common threads, with even moderate dissenters saying that while they may like country and rap separately, they would prefer they stay that way. Some call on CMT to stop...
Even if the Republicans prevail, it remains to be seen whether there is any prize to be had. The issue inflames the activists on each side, from evangelical ministers on the right to a group calling itself the Hip Hop Coalition on the left. But it does not rank in the concerns of most people, and it comes at a time when Americans are already holding Congress in low regard. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week showed public approval of Congress at 33%, which is the lowest since 1994, the year voters got angry enough to topple the Democratic...
...Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album, and you get a gray album. "I was cleaning my house at the time," says Burton. "It wasn't my deepest thought ever." Still, he spent three cloistered weeks in his bedroom translating snippets of Beatles music into hip-hop rhythm and synchronizing them with Jay-Z's vocals. Then he burned The Grey Album for a few friends. Within a month, more than 1 million copies had been downloaded from the Internet...