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...desegregating our society and exposing racism, have initiated the practice of calling each other "nigger" as a term of endearment? It may have to do with self-deprecation: to reduce the impact in such historically significant words, black people may use this word pejoratively. Listen to any hard-core rap song and you will hear the ubiquitous use of the words "nigger" and "bitch." These terms, in use by groups of black racists who inhabit the inner-cities, are part of a crude culture that is destroying the African-American community...
...Time Warner is already turning the company into "a case of trophies without a team on the field." The executive most dislocated by the emerging new power structure is Michael Fuchs, the head of HBO and Warner Music, who is credited with helping defuse the furor over gangsta-rap lyrics that besieged the company earlier this year. Last week Levin indicated that Turner, who will become Time Warner's vice chairman, will also assume responsibility for overseeing...
...least distracts from Hutton's childish interviewing. So far, she has demonstrated a knack for questions it would take whole university faculties to answer. To Kathleen Turner: "Tell me about motherhood." To Gabriel Byrne: "Tell me about love." To L.L. Cool J.: "Tell me about the start-up of rap in the black community." Her later, less competitive time periods may ease the pressure, but if Hutton wants to be a late-night combatant, a few tutoring sessions with Oprah might help...
After coming under harsh criticism from conservatives for putting out records with controversial lyrics, Time Warner announced today it is shedding its 50 percent stake in Interscope Records, the rap label of such stars as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and Tupac Shakur. The decision followed Interscope's refusal to allow Warner Music Group to review lyrics for an upcoming rap record by Tha Dogg Pound. "The sale of Interscope is not going to reduce the amount of sex and violence in American culture," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is all around us: in the streets...
Speak? Well, not exactly. His people howl and mumble, wisecrack and menace, muse and abuse--a lot of the time obscenely. But never idly. The language of Clockers is finally transformative, turning what might have been no more than a slice of mean-streets realism into a sort of rap opera, in which pained recitative prepares the way for anguished (and curiously moving) arias...