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American Studies professor Sanders, who sports an afro and a goatee and who recently released a rap C.D. he calls “danceable education,” is a candidate for the post. But conflict ensues when university president Winthrop criticizes what he calls Sanders’ focus on non-academic issues—concern that Sanders says is motivated by racism...
...genuine apathy among fans and a sense that the music isn't what it used to be. LL Cool J--whose career has risen and fallen but seldom dipped below platinum--suddenly finds himself the genre's wisest head. "There are a lot of limits that people place on rap and rappers nowadays," says LL. "Some of those limits come from record companies, but a lot of them come from rappers themselves. They're afraid to be individuals...
...early '90s rap scene, in which LL hit his commercial stride, was the world's freakiest cocktail party. The liberal humanists of the Native Tongues mixed with the neo--black nationalists of Public Enemy and the ghetto-crime reporters of N.W.A. while LL Cool J flirted with the ladies and Bushwick Bill and M.C. Hammer kept things from getting too weighty. Some of these performers ran out of things to say; most were subsumed by the wave of gangsta culture that swept over rap in 1993. By the time Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle became the first rap album...
...reason to pretend to be. I'm 34. I'm a guy who loves his music and enjoys what he does. I love my family--I'm not ashamed to say I have a wife and four kids--and I just don't allow any of the normal rap stereotypes to stop me from being...
There are plenty of interesting voices in rap--Cee-Lo, Divine Styler and Blackalicious, to name a few--but their records don't sell. LL remains the exception, but he still hopes that one day he can be the rule. "I know there's this sense in rap that a lot has been done already," says LL. "But there's plenty more...