Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEVER hear anyone speak like former Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics slugger David Henderson. "I don't see any Stanford guys running around here," he once said of his teammates on the A's. "Look at [catcher] Terry Steinbach. He thinks hockey is a sport...
...Taco Bell's saucy new Wild Burrito caused more excitement in the African-American community than the company intended. The spot featured dark-skinned island "natives" with painted faces, dancing in loincloths, flames belching from their mouths. African Americans immediately attacked Taco Bell's attempt at multicultural advertising. Oakland city council official Fred Ferguson described it as "plain and simple racist." The ad was withdrawn...
...true creative center has moved out to the West Coast where groups like the Pharcyde and Freestyle Fellowship in Los Angeles and Del the Funkee Homosapien and Souls of Mischief in Oakland are exploring new ground. The more established New York groups have grown complacent, and that could be hip-hop's death knell...
...satisfaction by the time we get a real good volatile fire season you'll really regret it . . . They burned me now I'm going to burn back. I fight fire with fire. You like my puns chumps? Sizzle Sizzle. You think the Oakland fire was big. You should see my plan...
...have been inspired by Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. Though the jury didn't buy that defense in the killer's trial, the trooper's widow brought a multimillion-dollar product-liability suit against Shakur. For his part, Shakur has a $10 million civil rights suit against the Oakland, California, police department, in which he claims that he was beaten by two officers who ticketed him for jaywalking...