Word: snooping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spectacular successes like these have been based largely on a Faustian handshake: the company's willingness to gamble on edgy, explicit music made by edgy, unpredictable performers. The artists include Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose resume includes a drug conviction, and Manson, whose malevolent twist includes such ditties as Tourniquet and Irresponsible Hate Anthem. Their discs have attracted millions of young buyers fascinated by the music's aggression and X-rated imagery...
...would be ignoring the fact that economic forces connect us all. For instance, if the high school students who now work at fast-food outlets in order to get money for Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg no longer feel the need to buy Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg, they might quit their jobs and leave the rest of us waiting hours for our hamburgers. We might get tired of waiting and eat elsewhere, changing our fat intake in a way that endangers the entire diet industry. That's how free-market capitalism works...
Tupac Shakur is dead, but gangsta rap isn't. Yet. Shakur's posthumous CD, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, which he recorded under the name Makaveli, entered the Billboard charts at No. 1. Last week Snoop Doggy Dogg released his new CD, Tha Doggfather, another likely big seller...
...neither of these albums, both on Death Row Records, delivers the goods. The 7 Day Theory boasts complex production and some great tunes but is overwhelmed by exhausted gangsta imagery. As for Tha Doggfather, some of the songs have a narcotic seductiveness, and Snoop slips in a few positive messages. But much of the album is boorish and boring...
...reason is that Snoop's innovative ex-producer, Dr. Dre, has moved beyond Snoop, beyond gangsta rap (a genre he helped found) and beyond Death Row Records for a new venture: Aftermath Entertainment, a label that will explore genres like soul and pop. Dre's new CD, Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath (out Nov. 26), features performers from his label, from soul singers Kim Summerson and RC to rappers Nowl and Sharief...