Word: snooped
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...urban credibility--your Timberlakes, Aguileras et al.--the Neptunes crank up the beat and the attitude. On the flip side, they imbue hard rappers with much needed emotional depth. "We want people to sound different," says Williams, who made the menacing Mystikal sound funky on Shake Ya Ass and Snoop Dogg almost tender on Beautiful. "Taking somebody from A to B is cool, but when we produce, we want to take people from A to D, to challenge their artistic natures, their image, everything...
That would leave Williams to fill the sequined shoes of David Lee Roth, and sure enough, he's making a play. This week marks the arrival of The Neptunes Present ... Clones. The album features JayZ, Nelly, Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes rapping over characteristically ebullient Neptunes tracks as well as rock from N.E.R.D. and Spymob, the Neptunes' house band. It should debut at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart. But the real gift on Clones is Williams. He comes out from behind the mixing boards to sing on the album's first single, Frontin', which sounds like nothing else...
...oldest secrets of the secret world is that intelligence work involves as much art as science. While it is difficult, dangerous and expensive to snoop on our enemies with satellite cameras, hidden bugs and old-fashioned dead drops, knowing what all that information really means is the true skill of intelligence work. The information is often so disparate and scattershot that it amounts to little without interpretation...
Popularized by rap artists (Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Nelly) and NBA stars (Latrell Sprewell, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant), custom wheels come in thousands of eye-catching shapes that resemble everything from the blade of a buzz saw to the barrel of a revolver. Specific models, sold under brand names like Bling Image and AutoCouture, can race in and out of fashion in as little as six months. "People want big chrome one week, silver the next," Don Sabino says of the 10,000 customers at his Rent-A-Wheel chain in the southwestern U.S. But in the oversexed world...
...material is so strong that the producers could afford to toss the Snoop scene, it's a wonder no one has done a reality movie before. Like reality TV, a reality film is supercheap, and as Jackass proved, there's an audience willing to pay $9 for what it gets free on television. "We pitched this to the usual suspects a year and a half ago," says Murray, who, despite having a relationship with MTV since 1992, was turned down by MTV Films before the idea was picked up by New Line. "Mike Fleiss helped us because it made...