Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criminal conduct that is essentially honor among thieves, says you help comrades in distress. By telling what he knows, maybe he can help spring his buddy Billy Youngworth, the other con who says he can get his hands on the stolen paintings--if authorities will drop a stolen-vehicle rap that could keep Youngworth behind bars 15 more years. Federal agents have their ears wide open...
...Testament comes on forcefully from the start. On the Jamaican-born singer's previous CD, Prophecy, he performed alongside rapper Method Man of the American hardcore hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. I-Testament also boasts street-wise, street-tough swagger. Capleton's vocals are a mix of slurred rap, chanting and Jamaican patois, supported by R.-and-B. backup singers. His songs are often built around samples; Original Man draws liberally from the bass groove of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Capleton's talent lies in his ability to fuse gangsta-rap energy with socially conscious...
Field and Iovine could pay the settlements out of petty cash. Universal is poised to purchase their remaining 50% of Interscope for about $350 million, but Death Row is history. Interscope is leaving gangsta rap further behind and has signed new deals with a reformed Dr. Dre (who now shuns the genre) and R.-and-B. producer Teddy Riley...
Iovine won't make any excuses for Death Row or rap, nor does he particularly care to discuss it. "We're out of business with them. It's irrelevant," he snaps. He and Field produce records, period. For them, groups and labels may go, but the hits just keep on coming...
...minuses," says Morris. The upside included a fine R.-and-B. stable and country enclave. The downside: everything else. Morris bought half of Interscope, accepting its explicit lyrics in return for instant street credibility and album sales. "Interscope has always been noisy," he says, smiling. "But underneath the rap furor, there's a core of strong music with fine management...