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Inside Snoop Dogg's growing empire, where
the hip-hop mogul enjoys his wine, women and
bong. But can he outrun his gangsta
past?
By Baz Dreisinger
August 22, 2003
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The hyper-literate women of New York-based hip-hop trio Northern State represent for the sisterhood. Just don't ask them about Fannypack.
By Lynn Harris
August 12, 2003
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Eminem is the man of the hour, but rap is still an African-American business.
By Amol Sarva
November 20, 2002
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MC Mike Skinner's outstanding debut album delivers the most comprehensive look at British working-class life since "Trainspotting."
By Ewald Christians
November 19, 2002
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The fast-talking rapper's album "I Phantom" is the first hip-hop record after 9/11 that's explicitly critical of the current administration. Listen in.
By Dan Kois
September 23, 2002
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The third release in this series of New York underground hip-hop samplers features new material by Mos Def, Missy Elliott, the Roots and others. Listen in.
By Dan Kois
August 6, 2002
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A North Carolina cracker proclaims the reign of rap's highest hound a triumph of decadence over the numbing boredom of the status quo, in the tradition of the Marquis de Sade and Arthur Rimbaud.
By Stephen Lemons
May 15, 2001
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Snoop Dogg asks not what porn can do for him, but what he can do for pornography.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
March 15, 2001
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Sean "Puffy" Combs claims he's been targeted by prosecutors for being a young, black celebrity -- but that celebrity is built on a criminal image.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
February 6, 2001
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Quietly, humbly and only knocking over one shelf, 23-year-old Scott Kuzner breaks into the world of hip-hop.
By Chris Colin
January 22, 2001
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He's now a notorious Detroit rapper who spits hate machine-gun style. His family, friends and the bully who beat him up in school remember someone different.
By M.L. Elrick
July 25, 2000
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Lil' Kim debuted as a brassy M.C. who wanted orgasms -- not respect. Four years on, the life of a porn-positive rapper looks pretty empty.
By Michelle Goldberg
July 18, 2000
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A hack genius, a bloodthirsty M.C. and a few mouthy street kids from Yonkers: The Ruff Ryders find a chartworthy formula -- again.
By Keith Harris
July 18, 2000
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Eminem may be the most violent, woman-hating, homophobic rapper ever. Why are critics giving him a pass?
By Eric Boehlert
June 7, 2000
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RZA's music "inspired by" Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" lags behind the inspired cuts of the actual film.
By Alex Pappademas
April 25, 2000
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Hyped hip-hop star Beanie Sigel tells "The Truth," the whole truth and everything but the truth.
By Jon Caramanica
March 15, 2000
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Infused with pop culture and heady literary theory, Paul Barman's Ivy League rhymes crackle with clever jokes and silly wit.
By Joseph Patel
February 14, 2000
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Juvenile's rhymes are near idiotic, but the production -- that's another story.
By Andy Battaglia
January 19, 2000
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Suspended between murder and redemption, DMX captures the conflicted soul of a hardcore thug.
By Britt Robson
January 11, 2000
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Nas' career has a Wellesian scale. The rapper's gone from "Kane" to Gallo in five records.
By Joe Gross
January 7, 2000
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On his debut solo album, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip shores up his street cred.
By Michelle Goldberg
December 10, 1999
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Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley, together at last. But what's Aerosmith doing on this shameless collection of posthumous duets?
By Michelle Goldberg
November 23, 1999
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Why listening to Rage Against the Machine is bad for lefty idealism.
By Gavin McNett
November 22, 1999
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Amid cell biologists and students of the Hungarian novel, I presented my senior thesis on rap.
By Simon Rodberg
November 3, 1999
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Thug rapper Eve's assertive female raps would sound even more radical at the top of the charts if the countrified Dixie Chicks weren't telling the exact same stories.
By Jon Dolan
October 4, 1999
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