Word: rapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dell, a machinist with an ugly rap sheet, was arrested and charged with rape and capital murder. He had been seen at the County Line the evening Schartner was killed, though not with her. Later he'd walked into a convenience store with blood on his face, hands and clothes--the result, he said, of a fight at another bar. There were no witnesses to the killing. But circumstantial evidence--including tire tracks consistent with those from O'Dell's car and tests of the blood on his clothing--seemed to link him to the crime...
...Detroit the breeding ground for this new white-rap sound? In part it's because Detroit has long been a musical city, and today's young performers are drawing from its legacy. Kid Rock speaks reverently of Motown, Bob Seger and MC5. Insane Clown Posse's terrible new CD, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (Island), has a bit of the macho theatricality of Ted Nugent, mutated into something more violent and antisocial...
Detroit's reputation as a tough, working-class city also gives its performers credibility in the rap world. Eminem's bad-boy poses on his album The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope) seem more believable because he hails from the Detroit area rather than, say, Palo Alto, Calif...
...skeptical father for a loan to put out an indie record (he has his own small label, Top Dog). At a local record signing early in his career, Kid Rock was challenged by a young Marshall Mathers--who would eventually become Eminem--to a battle rap. (He declined.) Kid Rock eventually signed with Atlantic/Lava. MTV embraced Devil Without a Cause, and he soon found himself trying on swimsuits with Rebecca Romijn-Stamos on House of Style...
This funk-rap-rock band has long seemed an episode of VH1's Behind the Music waiting to happen. The group's original guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died of a heroin overdose; the replacement guitarist, John Frusciante, left the band and battled drug problems; a replacement replacement guitarist, Dave Navarro, departed too. Now, on the group's latest CD, Frusciante returns. Unfortunately, the ending to this story isn't a completely happy one. A couple of the songs here are entertainingly muscular, but others might have been best left as bonus tracks on CD singles. The album title is kind...