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...heat of summer, amid the steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody...
While the two boys were hustling up change that afternoon, Chicago police were out canvassing the neighborhood for a killer. And when they were finished, R. and E. (their real names have not been released because they are minors) would get the rap for the murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, whose body had been discovered in the high weeds of a vacant lot, her head smashed with a rock, her mouth stuffed with her panties. There were signs of sexual assault. Police officers had brought R. and E. in for questioning as witnesses, and when the two boys...
Does the Committee to Protect Journalists have a critics' chapter? WYCLEF JEAN, a member of the band the Fugees (biggest hit: Killing Me Softly with His Song), reportedly pulled a gun on a magazine editor over a bad review of a rap band he's producing. "For some reason, sometimes hip-hop artists, they seem to feel like they can operate outside the rules of normalcy," said Jesse Washington, editor of the new magazine Blaze. Jean denied the allegation on MTV. "Wyclef Jean pulls no gun. Wyclef Jean plays guitars, and I have love for my family, respect...
Snoop wants out of the dog-house. Snoop Dogg was one of gangsta rap's first megastars, but as of late, his album sales have slumped. This year Master P, the head of the New Orleans-based label No Limit Records, is the top dog in the gangsta world: Master P's current solo album sold more than 400,000 copies in its first week out; at the upcoming MTV Music Video Awards, he'll be a featured act. So Snoop has allied himself with No Limit, declaring himself a "No Limit soldier," sharing in Master P's heat...
...excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog of junk e-mail...