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...police rap sheet probably wouldn't look very good on an application for the Rhodes...
Nearly God is the latest incarnation of Tricky, the musician and producer wunderkind responsible for Maxinquaye. Maxinquaye was an ambitious and multifacted studio project, drawing on influences ranging from Public Enemy to Issac Hayes. And if Portishead didn't manage to hammer the seductive groove from "Ike's Rap" into your head with their single "Sour Times" (the tune even provided background music for a suitably glum and nubile Liv Tyler's bicycle ride in this summer's Stealing Beauty) then Tricky did with the dark but luscious "Hell Is Around the Corner...
...innovative producer and an enthusiastic sampler, but not an overly promiscuous one. Funk riffs give "Bubbles," a vocal collaboration between Tricky and Hall, the kind of inimitable musical flavor that makes an album great. Samplings of DAS EFX on "Keep Your Mouth Shut" as well as Bird's rap "Children's Story" pay homage to a few of trip-hop's influences, though none comes as close in power to her driving, ironic (though musically disimilar) version of Public Enemy's "Black Steel" on Maxinquaye...
...interested in buying holey jeans; they want high-quality merchandise." They also like bulk. While the rest of fashion is pushing a lean look, Hilfiger shows baggy jeans and definitive tops. In March 1994, Snoop Doggy Dogg, then in the headlines for a murder indictment as well as his rap music, appeared on Saturday Night Live wearing a grand jersey festooned with the logo. The market exploded. Sales jumped $93 million the following year...
...head of Habibullah, the Indian bandit who killed her father. In carrying out his pledge, Badshah breaks Indian law. So he gives his word to a kindly policeman that, after going home for his wedding, he will return to be jailed. In the ensuing 20 years he takes the rap for two murders he didn't commit. Poor Badshah: noble to a fault...