Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time partying with gangsta rappers. Neither item was true. A few weeks later, however, the board of a luxury co-op building turned down her application to buy an apartment. "It was ridiculous," Carey says. "There were rumors and lies about me being the next queen of gangsta rap, which did not help...
...YASSER ARAFAT are still refusing to get off the dime on peace talks by the time she arrives in the Middle East next month, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT plans to give them the not-so-diplomatic treatment she's becoming famous for: a blunt talking-to and a rap on the knuckles. Washington is frustrated with the game of diplomatic chicken that both sides have been playing. In several major speeches, Albright plans to lay out "what road they're headed down" if the talks remain deadlocked, says an official, and "why if they don't change...
DIED. LUTHER ALLISON, 57, searing blues guitarist; of lung cancer; in Madison, Wis. Born on an Arkansas cotton plantation, he played with nearly every major blues figure in the past 30 years, keeping the music alive as rap and soul captured successive generations of black audiences. With the blues dying out at home, he eventually moved to the more reverential shores of France...
...evidence of the first few nights, the new shows are following the Arsenio model so closely that they are almost indistinguishable from each other. The hyperkinetic mood is the same, the wildly panning camera is the same, and the guests are the same, literally. Rap singer "Puffy" Combs and Samuel L. Jackson each appeared on both shows. True, it's unlikely that Vibe's very first guest will be seen on Keenen--Jones persuaded President Clinton to appear pretaped from the White House...
...poisonous cherries killed her husband. The tragedy did not slow her down for long. She lived exuberantly, enjoying chocolates, cigarettes and one-liners ("I've never had but one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it"). In 1996, as if to establish her claim to posterity, she recorded a rap CD, Maitresse du Temps (Time's Mistress...