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...N.W.A. while LL Cool J flirted with the ladies and Bushwick Bill and M.C. Hammer kept things from getting too weighty. Some of these performers ran out of things to say; most were subsumed by the wave of gangsta culture that swept over rap in 1993. By the time Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle became the first rap album to debut at No.1, record labels and would-be rap stars were fully aware of rap's lucrative potential and piled on the gangsta parade. "Once one thing gets through the door and it works," says LL, "people gravitate...
...briefly toyed with going hard core himself, but it was a poor fit. He had always been a ladies' man (his name is an abbreviation of Ladies Love Cool James) and, while the rest of the industry has chased trends--from gangsta (Snoop Dogg) to pimp (Jay-Z) to pot-smoking party regionalist (Nelly)--LL has remained a lover...
...concept album about the difficulty of maintaining both underground and mainstream success), but it's an allegory out of control. The nasty stuff sounds like the usual hard-core crassness, while the nice stuff comes off as treacly. The shame is that Xzibit wastes contributions from guests Eminem and Snoop Dogg and flavorful production from, among others, Dr. Dre. --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...Winners ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Movie hero is rumored to be eyeing California governorship. To improve his chances, he'll take speech lessons from Jesse Ventura ALFONSO CUAR?N Mexican director of Y Tu Mam? Tambi?n gets third Potter film. Early changes: Hermione will develop Spanish accent, precocious sexuality SNOOP DOGGY DOGG Rapper inks deal to produce an action figure in his own likeness. Cute, but what child has the patience to braid all those itty-bitty cornrows? Losers ELIZABETH HURLEY Fab femme is edited out of new Austin Powers movie because she's not funny. If that's the criteria-then when...
...Nelly loves his hometown. Nelly loves pot. Nelly loves Nelly. It's a pretty narrow vision, but Nelly (real name: Cornell Haynes Jr.) moved 8 million copies of his debut album, and his follow-up, Nellyville (Universal), won't lag far behind. The secret is the twang. Nelly, like Snoop Dogg, raps in a Southern-inflected singsong so bouncy and joy-filled that he could read Cardinals box scores and the world would bob its collective head...