Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest her children in her idea of small-town pastimes--board games in the parlor, gingerbread houses at Christmas--the more Jeremy wanted to dye his hair purple and turn up his stereo. Wilmington is as saturated with pop culture as the next place; Jeremy's interests ran to rap music and cartoon art, and he dropped out during his senior year. Now 20, he has earned a GED and is studying at a local college...
While much of the album succeeds brilliantly in bringing forth the Christmas spirit, the album does have its flaws. The ubiquitous Puff Daddy and his friends deliver an unengaging rap cover of "Santa Baby," which Madonna covered for A Very Special Christmas. The band everyone loves to hate, Hootie & the Blowfish, bring to the album a horrible cover of Mel Torme's standard "The Christmas Song (Chesnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)." Darius Rucker and guitarist Mark Bryan are totally out-of-sync and seem to be playing two different horribly Hootie songs. Former rock queen Patti Smith gives...
...fact, fighting the Justice rap (federal district court hearings are set for early next month) may be the easy part. Microsoft's long-term problem is the capital's growing perception that the company is bullying competitors and partners alike, abusing the leverage its Windows monopoly gives over a critical industry. It's a mushrooming p.r. cloud that threatens to damage Microsoft both explicitly (if Justice decides to monkey-wrench Gates' Windows 98 plans) and implicitly, by hampering his ability to influence future legislation on such crucial Infobahn issues as copyright protection and encryption...
...Give him a break," says the tall, impressive-looking man in work clothes. "I'm sure he didn't know what he was saying. People around here don't like the way he wears his hair in braids or the rap music he plays. Heck, I used to get kidded for wearing a crewcut and listening to Hank Williams. 'Course, I wasn't as good a receiver...
...this suggests, the report concludes, that "in-store music could influence product choice." That revelation, if taken to heart, might tip the balance of trade. If foreign emporiums could be induced to play Sousa marches or gangsta rap, who knows how much Coors or Budweiser the U.S. might sell abroad...