Word: puff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belle Fourche, South Dakota, who was wearing cowboy boots and chewing Red-Man Tobacco. The town of Belle Fourche was a hub for cattle roundups and cattle sales for the past two centuries. Apparently, now it is the hub of the rap world, the place from which the next Puff Daddy will emerge...
...Still, how many months until your first collaboration with Puff Daddy...
Albright's response? A huff and a puff and not a mention of the promised "serious blow." Not a hint, not a memory. And now we learn that after talking tough, Albright had been secretly urging the U.N. arms inspectors to hold off on searches lest they provoke Saddam. Seeing the U.S. throw in the towel, Saddam has grown even bolder, announcing now the effective end of even long-term monitoring. With America prone, he can resume building his doomsday weapons unmolested...
...Jerusalem's younger, larger, secular brother Tel Aviv), "Beverly Hills 90210," "Family Matters" and "Full House" are on the menu daily, not to mention CNN. There are also some shows you might have missed the first time around, like "Mr. Rhodes" and "California Dreams." Kellogg's, Subway and Puff Daddy are household names here, and NBA basketball is followed closer than in the States. English words in Hebrew-Aramaic characters fill the newspapers, as do all-too-familiar faces--from George Clooney to Kenneth Starr...
...Prince, for example, has been creating experimental R. and B. for two decades. And remember Terence Trent D'Arby? No? Well, he was that guy...never mind. The point is, in the '90s, the face of cool in R. and B. has been the face of a gangsta. Puff Daddy, Dr. Dre, Master P and the like dominate the aesthetic space in black music. Boyz II Men may sell more albums, but when you think of what's hot, what's hip, what's real, what's representative, gangsta rap has symbolized the cutting edge...