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...first drew rap attention to the racism and greed of Hollywood back in 1990 with their song “Burn, Hollywood, Burn,” featuring N.W.A.’s Ice Cube and old-school legend Big Daddy Kane. In the song, a sampled white voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about playing “a controversial Negro,” a “servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube’s offer to go watch the 1973 blaxploitation classic...
...have Fiasco’s debut disc, “Food & Liquor,” West’s paranoia is thoroughly understandable. Like West, Fiasco’s a hard sell in street-cred terms. While “Food & Liquor” is, according to the rapper himself, modeled after Nas’ “It Was Written,” Fiasco doesn’t project Escobar’s hard image. He’s a devout Muslim, doesn’t drink or smoke, is into animé and skating, and runs a decidedly...
...season of grim anniversaries, another passed last week, little noticed. It has been 10 years since rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on a street in Las Vegas. And in six months Voletta Wallace, the mother of Notorious B.I.G., will arrive for the 10th time at the date on which her son fell to a bullet in Los Angeles. While to the wider world, Biggie and Tupac were multiplatinum artists, hip-hop ambassadors and friends turned envenomed foes, to Wallace and Afeni Shakur they were sons, repositories of dreams and years of nurturing. "It's like I got the phone call...
Shakur is proud of her Panther past and of her son, but she is also brutally honest. Shortly before he was killed, Tupac attacked Biggie and virtually every other rapper of note in New York City in a profanity-laced tirade called Hit 'Em Up. Among things unprintable in this magazine, he claimed he had an affair with Biggie's wife Faith Evans. "To tell you the truth, I was proud that Tupac had found an excellent way to get back at [Biggie] without violence," says Shakur. "He could take a word and beat you to death." But now, given...
...should also care because this is an age when entertainers have ever-greater influence over how young people think and act. A boy in a poor neighborhood with poor schools is more likely to model his behavior after his favorite rapper than his favorite teacher (if he has one). As the gangsta lifestyle becomes normalized through this process of imitation, delinquency and ignorance pervade and destroy entire communities...