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...with more magic powers than he actually possesses. "So much of what we do is just common sense," he says. Rubin co-founded Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons out of his New York University dorm room in 1984 and had a huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill), but his formative experience as a producer came during a long-ago session with the Bangles. "Just before recording, one of the girls completely broke down," Rubin recalls. "She said, 'I don't think...
Beah was in a nearby town performing with a little dance-and-rap troupe in 1993 when his village was torched by rebel soldiers. After many months of privation and searching for his parents, he fell into the hands of the Sierra Leonean army. It offered protection for a while--and then conscription. Fueled by anti-rebel lectures, constant war movies, speed pills and "brown-brown" (cocaine mixed with gunpowder, which the soldiers sniffed), Beah became a killing machine. "That was your life," he says of his two years of endless fighting. "That's what you did unless you wanted...
...Last year, three of the four students allegedly caught smoking marijuana in a DeWolfe dorm room were slapped with the two-year charge. And later that same year, after a student admittedly struck police officers while under the influence of LSD, his roommate had the charge added to his rap sheet after police said they found 38 “hits” of the drug in his room...
...invariably seen as a negative in the public eye, somewhere between legislative logrolling and subsidizing Big Sugar. The unethical influencing of our prescribing, the corruption of the sacred relationship between doctor and patient, allegations of bribery, unnecessarily increasing the price of health-care - these are on the rep's rap sheet. Yet it's a perfectly legal profession. Here are three reasons...
...early eulogizers have limned Brown?s contribution to rock (in his shift from the 2-4 upbeat to the 1-3 downbeat), to rap (his riffs sampled in maybe a thousand songs), to dance (his moves influencing Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and countless club hoppers and frat boys), to racial consciousness in the '60s (his anthemic ?Say It Loud, I?m Black and I?m Proud?). Others will itemize Brown?s rap sheet and jail time - for larceny as a teenager, then the two police chases (unlike O.J.?s, J.B.?s were naturally high-speed) and the assault complaints lodged...