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...market, a market that caters to all the moods of the American disposition, from moonglow to bloodlust. At Sam Goody's, the chain record store, the CD bins are stuffed with amiable releases by Hootie and the Blowfish and Boyz II Men. But they also hold the gangsta rap of Bloods and Crips and Tupac Shakur. Nearby, at the Time Out video arcade, Jordan Trimas, 16, is playing Primal Rage, a game in which dinosaurs tear one another to pieces. "Sure, the violence influences kids,'' he shrugs. "But nobody can do anything about...
...media giant that includes the largest American music operation, the Warner film studio and a stable of magazines, including Time. One day after Dole's speech, William Bennett, the former Education Secretary and drug czar, sent letters to Time Warner board members asking the company to stop distributing rap with objectionable lyrics...
...couldn't stomach their lyrics, also knows it's not so simple. Record companies routinely tell artists to remix their albums or record new tracks. Something like that happened two years ago at A&M records. Its president, Al Cafaro, heard a track intended for an album by the rap artist Intelligent Hoodlum. Bullet in the Brain was about killing a police officer. In the wake of the uproar over Ice-T's song Cop Killer, record executives everywhere were thinking twice. "It was nothing that we could be party to,'' says Cafaro of the song. "I told...
...weeks ago, in a conversation with TIME editors and correspondents, House Speaker Newt Gingrich went one step further when he suggested that major radio advertisers band together to boycott stations that play "explicitly vicious'' rap. "They could drive violent rap music off radio within weeks,'' he said. Talk like that makes record execs very nervous. They know their product can also be vulnerable to boycotts by record stores that are under pressure from consumer groups. "You can make waves, but you can't mess with retail,'' says Eric Brooks, president of Noo Trybe Records. "You need to have your album...
...Dummies or Macs for Dummies because we've been using (or trying to use) computers for more than 15 years. We neither fear them, nor want them to go away. When they work, they help organize our thoughts and simplify our lives. When they don't, we want to rap them smartly on their sides. Repeatedly. Until the nurse comes and leads us to a quiet room...