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...Records: "Tommy's clothing represents the American Dream to black kids. They're not interested in buying holey jeans; they want high-quality merchandise." They also like bulk. While the rest of fashion is pushing a lean look, Hilfiger shows baggy jeans and definitive tops. In March 1994, Snoop Doggy Dogg, then in the headlines for a murder indictment as well as his rap music, appeared on Saturday Night Live wearing a grand jersey festooned with the logo. The market exploded. Sales jumped $93 million the following year...
When rap came around, however, younger performers found its passionate, insistent rhythms a more fitting vehicle for the messages they wanted to deliver and for presenting the truth of their lives. Groups like Public Enemy carried the flag of black protest, and later, gangsta rappers like Snoop Doggy Dogg chronicled the crime-ridden neighborhoods in which they lived in scathing, scatological terms. Soul music was left to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men and the like. Talented performers, yes. Standard-bearers for musical boundary pushing...
...calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come and twist us." Since his last album, Shakur has switched from Interscope to Death Row Records, home to controversy-courting rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, and in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted Shakur engages in a boastful duet with Snoop that revels shamelessly but tellingly in their shared notoriety...
ACQUITTED. SNOOP DOGGY DOGG (CALVIN BROADUS), 24, rapper; on murder and related charges in the shooting death of a gang member; in Los Angeles. The jury deadlocked on a manslaughter charge...
...Angeles, with his sherbet-colored suits and his blue Rolls-Royce, his honeyed voice and revival-meeting cadences. It is worth pointing out that even as he preaches justice for society's outsiders, he is himself the consummate insider, with a roster of clients that have included Michael Jackson, Snoop Doggy Dogg and former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown, and a circle of friends who are among the most politically connected in all Los Angeles. His courtroom charisma, however, cannot be copied, much less mocked. He holds a jury rapt and disarms opposing counsel with his smooth, unflappable charm...