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...going to play that record--probably twice an hour." Who said radio consolidation was bad? Word has it that this Neptunes-produced track from Sweat, one of two albums Nelly will be releasing simultaneously in August, is in the same vein as Country Grammar and Hot in Herre, the rapper's previous summer hits. You can bet it will have a heavily layered but distinctive beat, an instant catchphrase and lyrics about two of Nelly's great musical obsessions: pot smoking and orgies...
With a movie called Be Cool, the cast had better, well, be cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie...
Within seconds of beginning our interview by phone, Def Jux rapper Murs has interrupted my questions to ask where I’m from (I have an accent). When I tell him, he says he’s surprised I even listen to hip-hop. “Hip-hop’s not that important—it’s just entertainment.” I tell him Tupac’s face is one of the more common images on T-shirts and walls in Africa (where I’m from) and he seems to accept...
...Living Legends crew, currently on the cutting edge Def Jux label and aspiring Harvard student, Murs is finally starting to break it big after many years on the West Coast underground. Def Jux has become the hip-hop label to watch thanks to the careful management of rapper and CEO El-P, the Jay-Z of the underground. Jukies always appear on each other’s albums, and the tours become traveling carnivals of talent dominated by the Jukies themselves, but with a healthy accumulation of friends and guests to round things out. In fact, the Def Jux label...
...underground (rumor has it that his name stands for “Makin’ Underground Raw Shit”). He sees underground music as defined by its subject matter, encompassing ordinary, everyday events, and by the performer. “We don’t look like typical rappers. An underground rapper is one who is himself, not playing himself...