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...women also shared their experiences in prison. “I was a criminal, and I used to be proud of it,” Williams said of her past. “I thought I was a hustler. I was like the people they talk about in rap songs, except I was really doing it all.” Williams said she spent 17 years in prison, during which she escaped four times and had five children. According to Williams, incarceration has had devastating effects on her life. At 55, she is still on parole, four...

Author: By Christina G. Vangelakos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Female Ex-Cons Recall Experiences | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...three times: to the teenager Armond Walterson, again to Billy Neal and finally to Harry Lear, a lineman for Florida Bell. Each marriage ended in divorce. But that was the least of her troubles - of the trouble she made for herself and those she lived with. Her rap sheet, as persuasively documented by Foster, is extensive, instructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...conclusion. The muddy, intoxicated instrumentation of “Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone” quotes a section of Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun” just before entering a borderline-psychotic rap by L.A. emcee Busdriver. Musical cameos aside, the instrumentation is by far the album’s most stunning virtue. The rhythm section locks tightly into the groove of each song, demonstrating the type of communication you’d expect from a polished jazz combo. As a result, rhythm...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Islands | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

Samberg, 27, hit it big on his third self-made video, Lazy Sunday, a rap with Chris Parnell which boasted, gangster-style, of the wimpiest activities imaginable: buying a baker's dozen of cupcakes, seeing The Chronicles of Narnia, using Google maps, yelling out movie-trivia answers at the screen and spending $10 bills: "Roll up in the theater. Ticket buying's what we handle. You can call us Aaron Burrs from the way we're dropping Hamiltons." The video, thanks to the Internet, became an instant classic. Within weeks there were Bakers Dozen T shirts and rap video responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Outta Narnia | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...films have continued to bounce quickly around the Web, particularly a violent gangster rap video starring Natalie Portman. He, like South Park, has given mainstream exposure to a young, punky, reference-packed, comic book--influenced humor that has been better represented on the Web than on TV. And as with most punky projects, Samberg thinks he's getting away with it more than he is. SNL used to have contributors, such as Albert Brooks, who would submit finished videos. "They take the risk," says Michaels of the Lonely Island submissions. "For us, if it doesn't play well, it just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Outta Narnia | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

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