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...singer. The Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees also scored a breakthrough this year with their sophomore album, The Score, which has sold more than 5 million copies so far (their debut sold only 130,000). A look at any recent Billboard chart shows that hard-core rap continues to be a best-selling genre. And the Smashing Pumpkins' double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which has sold more than 7 million copies so far, demonstrates that when a band does take chances and makes great music, the alternative-rock genre can still be rewarding and lucrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIG THING | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...angels looked this good and dressed this baaad, it would be as hard to get into heaven as into an all-star rap concert. Denzel Washington, an angel on loan to a fretful preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his pretty wife (Whitney Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SAY AMEN! SAY AWWW! | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...figure out whether someone was "narked" on. But Harty has been around long enough to know that many kids can't be scared straight by the law. "I've arrested kids who just love to see the squad car pull up," he says. "Some of them see a rap sheet as a badge of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH TIMES AT NEW TRIER HIGH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...million contract via free agency. The decision wasn't because of the tradition of Lakers' big men or the past glory of Showtime, it was to make some extra cash and be closer to the studios so that Shaq can record a couple of rap tracks during halftime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Dreams and Sneaker Realities | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

...next day I swang by Newbury ("Shop here, die happy") Comics on my way home from class. I circled the store twice, browsing the trendy t-shirts, the beatnik literature, the Pulp Fiction posters and, of course, the tons and tons of CDs. Rock, reggae, rap, folk, country, jazz, blues, classical, comedy, spoken word, soundtracks, compilations--yet amazingly, I couldn't find what I was looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside the World of A Cappella | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

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