Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Troubled young man drops out of college after beloved Dad expires. Dragon Lady Mom, who did federal time on a slavery rap, swoops in to stoke love-hate relationship with Junior. Three busy years hence, Bonnie and the Son of Clyde are Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2, suspected of murder, mayhem, arson and fraud in a spooky, dark-hearted, cross-country jag stretching from Hawaii to the Bahamas...
Last winter the southern California rap-metal quintet Limp Bizkit was just another scuffling young band that had probably spent too much time listening to its Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine albums. This summer Bizkit is basking in the kind of major exposure any new group would trade its nose rings for: a slot on the Ozzfest concert tour, an appearance on MTV's Spring Break, airplay on tastemaking KROQ radio in Los Angeles and a debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Y'All, that cracked the Billboard...
...Boston, a two-day symposium of presidential scholars at the JFK Library will be reexamining the record of Calvin Coolidge. A growing number of historians think that Silent Cal really wasn't all that bad and got a bad rap from journalists upset that he was no Teddy Roosevelt...
Born in North Carolina but raised in Atlanta, Dupri began wishing and striving for onstage success early on. When he was still just a teen, he discovered, designed and launched the kiddie rap group Kris Kross. In 1992 Columbia Records gave him his own subsidiary label, So So Def, establishing him as a powerhouse in Atlanta's thriving R.-and-B. scene. Dupri, whose real last name is Mauldin, brought his parents, who are divorced, along for the ride: his mother, Tina Mauldin, runs his production company, and Dupri's deal helped his father, Michael Mauldin (a former road manager...
Although he is short in stature, Dupri is not short on self-confidence. Asked if he was intimidated by the rap stars on his album, he replies, "I feel like I could rap better than all of them if I wanted to. But that's not what I do--I'm a producer. But if I was a full-time rapper, they'd be intimidated by me. That's how I see it." And he fends off Puffy comparisons by asserting, "The shoes I wear are a whole lot bigger than the shoes that he wears. I'm more hands...