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...Puffy publicist on--ouch!--Valentine's Day. It wasn't exactly Combs' best week. In addition to losing Lopez, he suffered a major blow at his ongoing weapons' possession and bribery trial when his driver, Wardell Fenderson, testified that Combs offered him $50,000 to take the rap after shots rang out at a New York City nightclub. On the brighter side, Combs could see Lopez again soon, albeit under the less-than-glamorous lighting of a witness...
...There was some discussion about the ever-expanding number of award categories, which now exceed 100. It can't be too long before we have Best Contemporary Alternative Albanian Folk-Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Not in the English Language.) Which should at least give an opportunity for Tirana rap duo Moxo & Oxo to win an award...
...thing about today's music celebrities is how they blend effortlessly into the crowd. The only indication that you are in the presence of one is when you see people forming concentric circles. This is a sign that an alienated rapper or a bass player with a really angry rap-rock group has been spotted and is getting an adoration...
...Before Eminem came on to rap with Elton John, a grave man dressed like an adult - the Grammys' ambassador to Bennett-Leiberman Nation - delivered a dishonest sermonette filled with those "sure-it's-ugly-but-we-ignore-the-cry-of-the-ghetto (er, make that, of suburban white sociopaths)-at-our-peril" notes that are spoken to endow venality with social significance...
...Eminem was the least of the squalor. He has a smart high school sophomore's dark literacy and the good grace to attempt maneuvers of dissociation (you see, it's not me who's crazy and violent but the voices I channel from others in our sick society). He rapped a number purporting to be made up of menacing messages from a nutcase fan, working in counterpoint with Elton John, a benevolent marshmallow in a clown suit, still exhaling faux poetics in the "Candle in the Wind" mode. Watching Eminem's body English, I thought of the Japanese expression henna...