Word: puff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know anyone who didn't get lotteried out? If we must, we'll huff and we'll puff and we'll blow the door down...
...that sounds a tad over the top, it's because these are heady times for hip-hop, and no one has done more to lead it to the promised land of mainstream acclaim than the man called Puff Daddy. Whether it be the Hamptons polo match he played host to last year or his coronation-like 29th birthday bash thronged by well-wishers from Muhammad Ali to Martha Stewart, Combs has planted hip-hop's flag in places undreamed of a decade...
...Combs had become so rebellious and impatient that Harrell fired him. "He was hot tempered, very passionate, very creative," says Harrell, who now is a consultant to Bad Boy. "But Puff was like Dennis the Menace. Every now and then something would get broken." (Combs' huffing and puffing earned him his nickname.) When Combs exited Uptown, Arista's Clive Davis stepped in and gave him another chance...
...make it easy. Many crops, like rice, are mostly self-pollinated. As for crops that are pollinated by wind or insects, precautions like planting border fields to keep crops isolated help confine genes. What's more, crops tend to mature at the same time--sending out a great puff of pollen all at once--while wild plants reproduce over a longer period. During the brief time Terminator pollen is in the air, relatively few wild plants would notice. "The concern over widespread escape is overblown," insists Toenniessen...
...through the 29 tracks of this double album is like watching one of those Airport films: the sheer tonnage of guest stars makes the proceedings feel a bit bloated. Here's sweet balladeer Celine Dion and nail-spitting rapper Foxy Brown. There's Jay-Z, Nas and Noriega. Even Puff Daddy drops in to co-produce a tune. What, O.J. was busy? Why does Kelly, a blue-chip producer-singer-songwriter, need to call in the cavalry? Because R. is less an album than a collection of gussied-up singles, like a meal made only of desserts. There are half...