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...months before an extreme close-up shot of Larry Summers graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine, the publication featured another in-your-face male on its title page: rapper Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem. If these two figures stand side by side as equals, can’t we analyze pop culture within the walls of the ivory tower...
...Rapper Aesop Rock squeezes every last drop of expressive juice from the English language by riddling his rapid-fire stream-of-consciousness flow with taught one-liners and idioms turned on their heads. He manufactures his songs from scratch, complimenting his urgent vocals with his own production. On his recently released Bazooka Tooth, he speaks on such topics as 9-11, violence in popular culture and mankind’s struggle against the machines of its creation. Ace takes the stage with Boston hip-hop legend Mr. Lif, and Def Jux collegue and collaborator El-P. $17.50 advance...
...years of homophobia, EMINEM out-Chered the Queer Eye guys at the MTV video awards, sporting four different outfits, though we sadly have room to show you only three. (The fourth was a fabulous cerulean blue.) Each ensemble is from his Shady label, soon to join every other rapper's tracksuit line at a mall near...
Several minutes into the opening number of the Ruff Ryders--Cash Money concert in Albany, N.Y., in March 2000, rapper Eve--the only female member of the tour--glanced into the audience and noticed that a few thousand girls were dressed just like her. Dubbed the first lady of hip-hop, Eve had already released one megahit solo album, appeared in a Sprite spot and modeled for Tommy Hilfiger. Still, the concert was a key moment for her. She thought, What am I doing modeling other people's clothes...
BUSTA RHYMES The rapper's collaboration with P. Diddy, Pass the Courvoisier, raised a red flag more than 30 times [THREE HANDCUFFS...