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...these smokemachines and Van Buren-esque muttonchops doing in my gangsta rap video?How did Snoop’s bed gain the momentumto break Earth’s gravitational pull?Snoop Dogg has made the unusualdecision at this part of his career to resurrectthe spirit of the Zapp Band—an80s electro-funk phenomenon. A lot ofthe production on this album is a soupof keyboards and soul samples, syrupyR&B crooners, and cheesy synthesizergrooves—a collage of post-gangsta postcrunkelectro experimentation. The videofor “Sensual Seduction” takes itself onlyhalf-seriously; depending on your...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Snoop Dogg | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

THOMAS F. ZAPP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United in Pain, Divided Over the War | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

...father of Thomas J. Zapp, a Marine lance corporal killed near Fallujah on Nov. 8, 2004, made a pilgrimage from Richmond, Texas, to Crawford last week. He came to see Cindy Sheehan, not President Bush. "I want to sit down and talk to her," explains Zapp. "She says that a lot of people don't understand what's she's been through. Well, I do." That would probably be where their understanding ends. When Zapp learned of his son's death, it only strengthened his robust support for the war. "It made me prouder to be an American," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United in Pain, Divided Over the War | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

DIED. WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini-camera, a device tiny enough to be hidden in a closed hand; in Binningen, Switzerland. Though the camera he created in 1936 became a popular gadget in James Bond movies and other spy films, Zapp's invention was inspired not by anything so intriguing as espionage but by having once worked as an art photographer's apprentice, which required him to lug around heavy wooden cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 11, 2003 | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

Funk, from that FUNky B.O. growing in your pits, from the stink between the sheets, with the bass bustin' out and the grooves hangin', ever-e-thang 'cept opera & polka, the visible line from Zapp to Zappa, gee-tars 'n' horns 'n' cong-Os and voices voices singin 'n' screamin 'n' chanting 'n' shouting...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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