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...fleshy 57-year-old entrepreneur who plays golf and goes deep-sea fishing in what spare time he has. Iverson is the prince of the National Basketball Association, a coiled, 6-ft.-tall 26-year-old who spends his spare time playing video games and barking out gangsta rap music...
BARCELONA—Everyone complains about the McDonald’s, but what I noticed most was the music. American music is everywhere in Europe. More than just youth culture tuning into rap and boy-bands, the phenomenon greets you in cafés, clothing stores, and train stations...
...songs by 15 bands on this album offhandedly mix genres that until recently were oil and water: pop, punk, rap and heavy metal. This practice has become as de rigeur as nipple rings for bands over the last couple years, but it's easy to forget how alien it was to audiences of the recent past. Throughout the bulk of the '90s, the perceived incompatibility of these genres was more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When...
...busy making sure every genre feels included in the conversation. From Blink-182's "Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens to be the lone slab of undiluted Cheap Trick-era rawk. It doesn...
Aaliyah's new CD--coming five years after her last one--has been much anticipated. For young audiences tiring of teeny pop and older listeners turned off by gangsta rap, the new wave of hip-hop-soul singers provides a safe haven: music that's gritty but not dirty, youthful without being adolescent. (This month hip-hop-soul newcomer Alicia Keys, a protege of Clive Davis, the executive who signed Houston, saw her charming first album, Songs in A Minor, debut on the charts...