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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...genre hybrids, vehicles that provide his lyrics uncommon accessibility.At the heart of Cudi’s musical diversity is his hand-picked mix of guest artists, which include big-name rappers Kanye West and Common, dance-rock bands Ratatat and MGMT, and relative unknowns like rapper Chip Tha Ripper and singer Billy Cravens. The album’s collaborative highlight is “Alive,” featuring Ratatat. An exquisitely executed marriage of hip-hop and techno, it combines Ratatat’s effortlessly cool beats with eerie lyrics: “There’s something going...

Author: By Sarah E. Rich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kid Cudi | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Steven Stack, professor of psychiatry and criminal justice at Wayne State University, offers another explanation: the copycat effect. The copycat theory was first conceived by a criminologist in 1912, after the London newspapers' wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal crimes of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s led to a wave of copycat rapes and murders throughout England. Since then, there has been much research into copycat events - mostly copycat suicides, which appear to be most common - but, taken together, the findings are inconclusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Copycat Behavior Driving Murder-Suicides? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...unforgiving riptide while bodysurfing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach on April 12 at 48, his close friend Harrod Blank remarked that Kennedy's works were, "ironically, inspired by the sea." So it was true to form that Kennedy dubbed his first creation--originally a Nissan Sentra--Ripper the Friendly Shark. He equipped the working car with a toothy jaw and a tail that swished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Houston Chronicle, Kennedy was lured away by a love of sculpture that he had developed as an undergraduate at the University of Houston and was further drawn in by a local art-car parade in the early '90s. And though he was unable to get a prototype of Ripper into the procession, the encounter was the last bit of inspiration he needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...earned a number of commissioned projects, creating everything from the "Topsy-Turvy" school bus for Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream (made to protest military spending) to a giant whale for Nevada's 2001 Burning Man festival. All the while, he continued to drive his trusty Ripper up and down the roads of Northern California with sharklike restlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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