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Tupac's demise in Las Vegas six months ago was supposed to have a cathartic effect on the rap world. In the wake of his death, it seemed that the East Coast-West Coast beef might be squashed. When Quincy Jones addressed Prof. Dwight Andrews' class on black music several weeks ago, he claimed that Tupac's death was forcing a critical reexamination of gangsta posturing in rap music. Reports from the recent Soul Train Music Awards claimed that a new harmony had reigned. The next night, a drive-by shooting ended Biggie's life...
...deaths of these two rap kingpins were followed by an outpouring of grief and anguish throughout the hip-hop community. Yet, Biggie's death evokes more than sadness; his passing also brings about a detached numbness and cynical resignation. Word of another fatal shooting will not seem quite as shocking...
...than 3 million copies, making it one of the top-selling albums ever by a female country singer. Two weeks ago her sophomore album, Unchained Melody/The Early Years, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's pop charts. Entering the charts at the top is something the hottest rock and rap acts do on a regular basis, but as far as country acts go, the only other performer to pull that off is veteran megaseller Garth Brooks. Last week Rimes continued her winning streak, taking the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and beating out a slate of more heavily...
Bono: It's a wasp thing. It really is. It's Anglo-Saxon. It's Teutonic. Crashing into each other is just not as evolved as real dancing. I mean as angry as people in hip-hop can get, even in gangsta rap, they still have hips. [Rock] has fallen behind...
...treasure," decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...