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...have real fun, lots of disassembly and reassembly is a must. And while it may be as easy to ram into a wall as any other radio-controlled toy, the vibe is a whole lot cooler. So are the drivers: racing at the XMODS launch were rappers Mos Def and DMX, as well as Kill Bill babe Vivica A. Fox. Next stop: a 10-to 15-city racing tour sponsored by Radio Shack that kicks off in April...
...McQueen, a true car nut, often took the wheel in Bullitt and Le Mans. But most actors have taken more lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse than at the Richard Petty Driving Experience. On the Hollywood Homicide shoot, Hartnett fouled up a chase by crashing into a fake police car. Mos Def, a Brooklyn native who co-stars in The Italian Job, didn't even have a driver's license. Mark Wahlberg, the film's lead, threw up five minutes into driving class. The only racing demon in the cast was Charlize Theron. "My parents were both mechanics," she says...
...some tracks, such as the Eve and Fatboy Slim collaborative, “Cowboy,” and Cypress Hill and Roni Size’s “Child of the Wild West” suffer from painfully annoying choruses that are repeated far too many times. Mos Def’s angry nasal rantings run incongruous to the downbeat trip-hop of Massive Attack on “I Against I,” and Danny Saber and Marco Beltrami’s “Theme From Blade” sounds suspiciously like the Mission: Impossible theme...
...simple, but West essentially said that it is impossible to “judge the worst of the present by the best of the past.” Like most people, however, he is not optimistic that many hip-hop fans will ever fully embrace innovative artists such as Mos Def, Lauryn Hill and Talib Kweli. Neither is he optimistic that there will be many more artists like them...
That's a cry that surprisingly few black rap acts in America have taken up, with some notable exceptions. The masterly, literate self-titled debut of Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) is a virtual symphony of African internationalism. The group's name alludes to Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa nationalism, and the lyrics paint a red, green and black mural stretching from Coltrane to Du Bois to Ishmael Reed to Derrick Bell. Brown Skin Lady is a love song both to a woman and to Africa itself ("I know women on the continent got it/Nigeria and Ghana...