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Rather than a card for Mother's Day, Debbie Mathers-Briggs is angling for cold, hard cash. The mother of rapper EMINEM (ne Marshall Bruce Mathers III) has filed a $10 million suit against her son for what she claims are his unflattering, and all-too-public, assessments of her maternal skills. On his best-selling single My Name Is, Eminem raps "Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to/ I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." Lest one think he was merely trying to rhyme, he also described his mother in several...
...THIS IS NOT SURPRISING: She is reputedly a diva; she hangs with Michael Jackson, who hates being touched; she grabbed rapper Lil' Kim's breast at the MTV Video Music Awards...
RAPPY BIRTHDAY Hip-hop is celebrating its 20th anniversary (Sugar Hill Gang's album Rapper's Delight was released this month in 1979). Now that hip-hop has been around for two decades, a generation gap has developed between old-school and new-school rap. How can you tell them apart? Answer: Product placement...
This spring the rapper MA$E gave up singing about the glories of excess to devote himself to the glory of God. Now the 20-year-old has decided to add homework to the Lord's work and enrolled as a student at Clark Atlanta University. A protege of Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy), Ma$e sold 3 million copies of his 1997 album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits...
...show's title came from a song by rapper Method Man; the show's spirit came from hip-hop too. Rock, dressed in black, stalked the stage, barking jokes in a rough cadence somewhere between a Baptist preacher and RUN-D.M.C. Like a hip-hop deejay, Rock sampled the personas of the comic greats he admired--Gregory's political smarts, Richard Pryor's scatological eloquence, Allen's nebbishy charm--and mixed them into something new. "I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian," says Rock. "Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang...