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...Amaker wants to start early and try to pick out a rising star long before his college years, he can always get in touch with Cam’ron, who starred on Manhattan Center High School’s basketball team with fellow rapper Mase...
...Don’t Know, Officer” is too selfish (and too long) to qualify as an anti-snitching anthem. 50 Cent, Prodigy (the third best rapper in New York in 1995, who’s fallen off harder than Humpty Dumpty), and a barely trying Mase sound less like they’re protecting their hood from cops and more like the sleazy, self-centered drug dealers they claim not to be in the song. While “I Don’t Know, Officer” is the most menacing track on the album...
...Beautiful as Fiction But why stop there? Rain's managers believe he could be the first Korean star to break into the U.S. market. Park Jin Young, the pop impresario who discovered and trained Rain, is a talented dancer and songwriter who has worked with U.S. artists like Mase and Will Smith. Since setting up camp in Los Angeles last year, Park has been shopping his prot?g? around to U.S. production companies. Rain almost managed to score a track on rapper Lil' Kim's latest album?but the plan fell apart after Kim was convicted of perjury...
...made beats for other rappers. Within a few months he had his first major sale--$8,000 from a Chicago rapper named Gravity. "That's when I knew the one-year plan was out the window," says West. Soon he was making beats for Bad Boy Records' rapper Mase, and in 2001 West produced several tracks for Jay-Z's groundbreaking album The Blueprint, using samples of old songs (the Doors' Five to One, the Jackson 5's I Want You Back) sped up until they sounded like Chipmunks cover versions. (West admits he took the idea from...
...they do it. From Justin to Mobb Deep and Fat Joe, I'm tight with these people." There are so many friends on Sweat and Suit that the albums deserve their own Electoral College votes. Christina Aguilera, Tim McGraw, Ron Isley, Stephen Marley, Pharrell and Mase all drop by, and there's even a John Tesh sample on the hysterically over-the-top Heart of a Champion. Like all double releases, Sweat and Suit are a little bloated, but the good stuff, like the giddy Getcha Getcha and soulful Over & Over, sounds like a cohesive compilation of pop music...