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It’s probably a good sign that the feature seemed utterly irrelevant. What parent doesn’t already know about Eminem’s foul-mouthed verbal contortions and the whole Ruff Ryding suburban gangsta phenomenon? Never mind that hip hop has been, on and off, the leading artistic force in pop music for the past decade and a half. Never mind that Public Enemy and Timbaland have revolutionized our notions of musicality, that a multifaceted and vibrant youth culture has risen all over the world, and that fantastic new records are still released every couple...
...purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks. "I'm that motherf_____ girl!" When the session concludes, Eve softens. Her dog, Spunky J., a teacup terrier so tiny it's more of a cat than a canine, scrambles into her arms. Eve coos...
...tough being a woman in a mostly male profession. Now imagine being Eve, whose co-workers at Ruff Ryders include DMX, a guy whose musical canon features What These B______ Want and other numbers that will never be chosen as theme songs for Oprah. ("DMX is one of my best friends," Eve says. "That's like my dog for life!") Hard-core female rappers--Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim--compete with male rappers by using sex as a weapon. Eve has found a balance: she's tough enough to run with the big dogs and sensitive enough to hug a small...
...time as a stripper ("That was probably my biggest struggle"), she nursed dreams of becoming a singer. She soon discovered that rapping got more attention. Eve made it onto the roster of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment label, only to be let go, and then found a home at Ruff Ryders. She reunites with Dre on Scorpion (he produced two tracks). Says she: "I was like, 'He better do something on my album--he dropped me from his label...
Professor of Photography, Becher and his wife Hilla ran a very small but influential class at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. Among their other students were Thomas Ruff, Petra Wunderlich, and Andreas Gursky, who was recently featured in a profile by Calvin Tomkins in The New Yorker (January 22, 2001). The Bechers pioneered a type of detached objectivity in their photography. Despite their preference for black and white, Hofer, like many of their other students, has turned to color. This shift relieved Hoferof the burden of developing: in a 1994 interview in the Journal of Contemporary Art, she stated: "I have...