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Born in North Carolina but raised in Atlanta, Dupri began wishing and striving for onstage success early on. When he was still just a teen, he discovered, designed and launched the kiddie rap group Kris Kross. In 1992 Columbia Records gave him his own subsidiary label, So So Def, establishing him as a powerhouse in Atlanta's thriving R.-and-B. scene. Dupri, whose real last name is Mauldin, brought his parents, who are divorced, along for the ride: his mother, Tina Mauldin, runs his production company, and Dupri's deal helped his father, Michael Mauldin (a former road manager...
Onyx, House of Pain and Kriss Kross (I won't even get into the whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
...problems of the inner city have touched you recently, which is likely, then you must sense that something needs to happen. Reading Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's media-hyped jabber in Spin and buying Kriss-Kross records does not solve anything--it just gives middle and upper-class consumers some temporary mental satisfaction about their own efforts to be good citizens...
...Kross '79, a colleague of Puopolo on the football team, said yesterday, "Andy never had a second chance." Another teammate of Puopolo's, Alphonse Ippolito '79, added, "It doesn't seem that justice is fair...
...Penn weren't too shabby straight across the front. I flipped coins to decide a couple of these, so blame my change if the picks are off the mark: Harvard's Mike Clark and Cornell's Mike Donahue at guard, Brown's John Sinnott and Harvard's Joe Kross at tackle, and Princeton's Andy Stephens at center. Second team for Harvard--Mike Durgin...