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After moving from Delaware to New York City in the summer of 2001, I realized something deep and dear to me was shifting. Despite my stormy relationship with rap, my music collection had always been adorned with a COLORED ONLY sign. But New York's internationalism forced me to rethink my nativist aesthetic. I found myself furtively exploring bands that I would have written off in my youth. Initially I thought this was all temporary and meaningless. But the night I traded 50 Cent for Jack White, I knew something fundamental had changed, that the Soul Train had pulled into...
...will enjoy reading about 50’s growth as an artist under the tutelage of the late, great Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC and how the beef got started between 50 and Ja Rule (it involves fists and knives). But important details about 50’s rap career are missing from the book. For example, he briefly mentions Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck—members of his G-Unit crew (two of whom were arrested earlier this week on gun charges)—but he does not discuss the dynamics within the group...
...that's not your Father's version of the Bible. But those rap lyrics are a modern-day interpretation of New Testament verses offered by Real, the newest Bible magazine, or biblezine, from Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Inc., based in Nashville, Tenn. The company's biblezines--which include Becoming (for women) and Refuel (for teenage boys)-- carry the New Testament with the look of a newsstand glossy, replete with pictures and sidebars that offer prayer, relationship, even beauty tips. Real, which debuted in July, targets young hip-hop fans. Rap renditions of stories like the parable of the mustard seed...
...author, launched the hip-hop-themed biblezine. It wasn't an easy sell: Thomas Nelson's white evangelical execs weren't exactly up on Usher's latest hits. "You should have seen their faces after we played one of the songs," says Perry Moore, laughing, referring to the Christian rap CD that comes with Real. "They were, like, 'How can this be Christian?' And some religious leaders question the biblezines' decorum. "The Bible is a word that stands on its own," says Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "Packaging it surrounded by tips...
...shop owner Calvin, who is played by Omar Gooding rather than Ice Cube, a producer of the series. But the stories rely much more on the social-button-pushing aspects of the movie. In the second episode, the shop's gentrifying Chicago neighborhood gets a franchise of a black rap star's clothing chain called Niggaz. (The chain, the narration explains, is "the value-priced version of his high-end store, Uppity Niggaz, in Beverly Hills.") One character argues that the store empowers black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie (Barry Shabaka Henley, reprising Cedric...