Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington co-hosts WHRB's Saturday night hip-hop show, a program which has attracted a small but faithful following...
Still, Washington stands by his love of material pop culture. His Pforzheimer single is decorated with LP covers, relics from the 1980s including the fathers of hip-hop, the Beastie Boys...
...soundtrack of Spike Lee's "Crooklyn" winds out of the stereo, past two full CD towers containing mostly acid jazz and hip-hop and a low, carved wooden endtable from Africa, Washington eases himself into a chair...
Love is not a word most people use when they talk about Marion ("Suge") Knight. They talk about money--Knight is the head of Death Row Records, a hip-hop record label that generated $100 million in revenue last year. They talk about violence--Knight, a 6-ft. 4-in., 315-lb. former pro-football player, is an intimidating figure to some--and Death Row, whose roster of artists includes Snoop Doggy Dogg, is a driving force in the controversial genre of gangsta rap. Knight was behind the wheel of the BMW in which Tupac Shakur, a rapper...
Kevin Powell, a Brooklyn-based music writer who is working on a book of essays that will deal, in part, with hip-hop and American culture, says Shakur, who grew up fatherless, was drawn to the charismatic Knight as a father figure. Knight, for his part, says the relationship was a bit more equal: "He was the little brother, and I was the big brother." The tie was cemented when Knight posted a $1.4 million bond last year, releasing Shakur from prison while he appealed his conviction on a sexual-assault charge...