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...more than 10 million albums, constitutes a defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away...
...head Sean ("Puffy") Combs indirectly responsible for the shooting death of a friend in Atlanta in 1995. One of Shakur's last songs for Death Row implied that Easterners had tried to kill him in 1994 and that he had slept with the wife of one of the label's star rappers, the Notorious B.I.G...
While some might argue that it's unseemly, if not a bit screwy, for a major-label band (Rage Against the Machine is on Epic, which is owned by Sony) with an Ivy League guitarist to decry networks, millionaires and capitalism, Morello says there's no contradiction. "There's no more or less irony," he says firmly, "than in buying a Noam Chomsky book at Barnes & Noble." And if Joe Hill were alive today--who knows?--he might well be on MTV right alongside Rage Against the Machine...
MIKE PAPPAS Republican--New Jersey 12th Pappas, the rare Republican who didn't try to dodge the Gingrich label, scored a 3-point...
Things aren't going so swimmingly for Strug's sister in pharyngeal disadvantage, Kathy Ireland. Authorities busted a sweatshop in New York, where workers were locked in and the sprinkler system was broken. The clothes made there for K Mart bore Ireland's label. "I will not, and K Mart will not, tolerate unscrupulous practices in the manufacture of my products," said the swimsuit model...