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What's going on here? Even the producers, programmers and performers responsible for presenting the hip-hop-culture-meets-computer-hacker show Netfiend, one of a hundred streaming video shows Webcast weekly by Internet start-up Pseudo.com can't tell you for sure. But they are thrilled to be here so deep into the night. Internet television is an unproved--and, for the moment, virtually unwatched--medium, yet the Netfiend crew is resolutely sure it is on the verge of something very big. So confident are Skat and Pseudo.com's 70 other employees of the vast potential of their still...
...grand tradition of Puff Daddy, Kid Rock is sitting at his kitchen table in his small house in Royal Oak, a Detroit suburb, doing what hip-hop moguls are supposed to do: field phone calls. O.K., perhaps it isn't that grand a tradition, and maybe Kid Rock isn't exactly a hip-hop mogul yet--but he's certainly making a run at it. His new album, Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic/Lava), is in the Billboard Top 10. Alongside the messages on his refrigerator door about his six-year-old son Junior's field trips (Kid Rock...
...city: Detroit. A few years ago, white rapper was almost an oxymoron. In the Motor City, however, a kind of groundswell is under way. In the past few weeks Kid Rock, smarty-pants rapper Eminem and the horror-hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse--all from the Detroit area--have scored...
...Rock, 27, is the most promising of the crew. The son of a car-dealer dad and a homemaker mom, Kid Rock (a.k.a. Bob Ritchie) was signed by Jive Records a decade ago but was dropped in the early '90s, around the time Vanilla Ice caused white hip-hop to be seen as something of a joke and almost all white rappers to be viewed as suspect. Kid Rock had to beg his skeptical father for a loan to put out an indie record (he has his own small label, Top Dog). At a local record signing early...
There is a fear in hip-hop that white rappers will displace more talented black performers. Says Kris Kelley, music director for the Detroit radio station WJLB: "Eminem, Kid Rock and Insane Clown Posse are good rappers, but you could probably comb the nation and find 500 black rappers just as talented...