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...best song of 2002 so far. If they can't see the movie yet, at least fans can buy the album. Unburdened by the weight of images and dialogue, they can ponder at leisure Eminem's attempt to make the first iconic sound track for his genre - rap's Saturday Night Fever, say, or hip-hop's Purple Rain. Those two great sound tracks of the rock-'n'-roll era could not be more different musically. On Fever, the Bee Gees stole vocals from the Chipmunks and beats from the Casablanca records catalog to define disco, while on Purple Rain...
...October conviction of popster bad-boy Nicholas Tse - the son of 60s stud Patrick Tse and actress-temptress Deborah (?Hong Kong Emmanuelle?) Li - on charges of ?conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? by leaving the scene of a car crash and having his chauffeur take the rap. Photographers cut through dense foliage to snap Tse in the prison yard. And just last week EastWeek magazine was shut down by its media-mogul owner in response to the furor over a cover photo of a movie star photographed topless against her will during a 1990 kidnapping. The star is believed...
Overall, with Power in Numbers, Jurassic 5 maintains a strong foothold on its original position as one of the most unique rap groups around while expanding on their style and even growing...
...intensifying “East Coast/West Coast” rivalry is sending hip-hop albums to the top of the charts. In other words, it’s not quite the right moment for a random white guy from the Midwest to embark on the path to rap superstardom...
Formulaic though it may be, 8 Mile occasionally steps outside the strictures of its plot to comment on rap, race and class. The movie takes its name from a real road in Detroit which marks the unofficial boundary between the white and black sections of the city. In the film, 8 Mile Road represents the racial barrier Rabbit must overcome to achieve success in a predominantly black art form. For those looking for it, 8 Mile thus doubles as political and cultural commentary, persuasively rebutting the idea that rap can be performed and appreciated exclusively by members of one race...