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...anymore. The South is finally where hip-hop's at. These days, the biggest acts on Billboard's urban charts and on MTV are Southerners like the Ying Yang Twins, Ludacris, Mike Jones and, of course, Atlanta duo Outkast, which last year became the first hip-hop act to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar...
...South is still rising. MTV has ordered a reality show called Crunkville. Meanwhile, competition for Lil Jon and company is emerging out of Houston, via a hip-hop twist called screw, a smoother, less frenetic rap that slow-danced its way out of Texas last year when Lil' Flip's Sunshine became...
...their early experimentation with sex, their immersion in heavy-breathing rock music and the erotic fantasies on MTV, one thing about American teenagers has not changed: they are in many ways just as ignorant about the scientific facts of reproduction as they were in the days when Doris Day, not Madonna, was their idol. In a study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Demographer Ellen Kisker of Princeton University found that teenage girls are awash in misinformation. Among the commonest myths: that they could not become pregnant the first time they had sex, if they had it only occasionally...
...cable services, Home Box Office and Cinemax, which are both owned by Time Inc., acted to stymie this practice. The firms began scrambling their satellite transmissions so that dish owners who try to tune into those cable networks will get nothing but a garble. Fourteen other cable programmers, including MTV, CNN and Showtime, will follow suit. Showtime will start scrambling its signals...
...reality MTV. That network's film division is distributing Murderball--which Shapiro says is "definitely more MTV than PBS"--and will give it plenty of on-air promotion this month. MTV's kid brother, Nickelodeon Movies, put money into Mad Hot Ballroom. When dockers go to Nick and MTV rather than to the New York State Council on the Arts for support, something has changed. Docs have stopped relying on government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What...