Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TOOMER IS TENTATIVELY scheduled to work with music impresario Quincy Jones next year in New York. Jones will begin publishing a monthly magazine of hip-hop culture, Vibe, this September, and Toomer hopes to be on board by that time...
...model T. was a dinosaur in another sense; it may represent a vanishing craft. "A model can never be a full, performing creature," says Mark Dippe, a visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. "But computer-generated creatures can run, hop, do anything." To bone up on dinosaurs, Dippe and his colleagues studied the movements of live elephants, rhinos and giraffes and watched footage of alligators tearing meat apart. Ace animator Steve Williams even kept an iguana in his office -- for research, not company...
...created by their generation. Actually, says Richard Cowan, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, it has roots in several decades. Steve Bloom, music editor of High Times, points to the bebop-jazz musicians of the '40s as influences on many pro-pot hip-hop performers. Re-Hash Records has released Marijuana's Greatest Hits Revisited, new versions of reefer songs written between the '30s and '70s. "We didn't start this," acknowledges B-Real of the rap group Cypress Hill, who says he smokes pot almost every day. "We're the newest...
This white Canadian ragamuffin's blazing debut album, Twelve Inches of Snow, fuses Jamaican dance hall and American hip-hop into the irresistibly slick mix many other musicians have been aiming for. SNOW'S groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow...
...would hate to think that we're doing anything different because Mr. Steinbrenner is back. But, Mr. Steinbrenner has a way of putting a little extra hop in everybody's step."--New York Yankees manager Buck Showalter...