Word: rappings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eminem and David Mays have much in common. They're multimillionaires, they're white guys, and they made it all in the rap business. In addition, both have enormous persecution complexes. Eminem's paranoia is famous. "Half you people got a f______ problem with me," he raps on Till I Collapse. Mays, who started the hip-hop magazine The Source on a photocopier 15 years ago and turned it into the top-selling rap publication, is less celebrated but just as tortured. "The Source is constantly disrespected and bashed," he says. "It hurts...
...have been a sore spot. While much of the magazine's early journalism was daring, some of it was also tainted by Mays' friendships with the rappers he covered. One of them was Ray (Benzino) Scott. "I met Ray when I had just got to Harvard and started my rap radio show," says Mays. "He had the hottest group in Boston, and yes, I became their manager, just as he helped me with my dream to start The Source...
...Hefner declared that the Playmate was as young and hip as ever: ?The trademark products are now more popular than ever before, and you see them on high school girls, and you see the fashions in Vogue and Harper?s Bazaar. There are more references to Playboy in rap songs and hip-hop songs, the music of young people, than there has ever been before. Playboy is both contemporary and retro...
...that's just the start of an $89 million program of attractions - from a 4,000-sq-m sculpted forest suspended (upside down, at that!) above the city streets to nightly pop, rock, rap and techno concerts; 2,130 events in all - designed to bring tourists flocking to Lille. Not that it has any shortage of visitors...
President Bush's anti-terrorism policies are about to come under fire from a somewhat unlikely source: A federal advisory panel headed by a former Republican Party chairman is set to rap the President's knuckles this week when it issues a report criticizing the administration for failing to develop a comprehensive, pro-active anti-terror strategy more than two years after the 9/11 attacks...