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...young men in hooded sweatshirts go by rapper tags--Spion, El Pach, Benou and K-Soc--and like thousands of others from the grimy, soulless apartment blocks that ring France's big cities, they were out cruising the mean streets of Paris' banlieues, or suburbs, last week. Near the city hall of Bobigny, a rough town on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, a circle of fire marked where a trash container had been set alight to provoke a police patrol. "People mix it up with the police every day around here," says Spion, 19, who is of Moroccan origin...
...dine, 22, is a Muslim rapper from Le Havre. His latest record is Jihad: The Greatest Struggle Is Within Yourself
...Most Ingenious Promotion for a New Album Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was arrested for being an accomplice to murder, enhancing his aura among gangsta-music lovers. Suggested ad line for Doggystyle: Buy this or we'll shoot a bystander...
...Gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg ((Interview, Dec. 13)) seems to contradict himself in his conversation with TIME. He states that his mother was strict and that if other parents were as exacting with their children, there wouldn't be as much violence. But why, if his mother was such a successful disciplinarian, is the Dogg facing murder charges? He tells us about some portions of his past that involved active violations of the law. The whole perspective as seen by Doggy Dogg is another of those ''poor, picked-on blacks'' views. His music is not of concern...
...Who’s got the illegal copy of the album?” called out Ninja, the diminutive rapper-singer-cheerleader of seven-person UK buzz band The Go! Team, during their set last Tuesday. As throngs of teens in the audience cheered and laughed, Ninja grinned right back, shouting “You’re all criminals, but we love you anyway!” The Go! Team’s sunny indie-pop-cum-hip-hop sound and on-stage dynamism got Boston’s Paradise Rock Club jumping like a joyous street party...