Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million
The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls.
Alicia Keys is clearing the air on her statements that gangster rap was a government "ploy to convince black people to kill each other" and that the government and media were responsible for the drama between slain rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.
"It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood Nigga killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood" - Ice Cube, "Why we thugs"
A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad. These days of course the freeway ain't so free. The 16-lane snarl-up is an occupational hazard for L.A. commuters who reputedly total up 99 million miles a day between them. Autopia has become autogeddon, complete with a sub-culture of car chases, car-jackings and drive-by shootings. Built as far west as geography would allow and hemmed in only by the Pacific, LA is a crazy town where manifest destiny has been given free reign, where anyone can turn up and claim to be someone -- if their agent is any good. It's a city of angels and demons, where a thin sheen of plastic surgery perfection barely conceals a seedy underworld of hustlers, dealers and movers on the make. That side of the city has long fascinated crime writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy and, more recently
The leader of one band taking part in the 48th Monterey Jazz Festival says his collection of rock stars sets out to create improvised "chaos" on stage -- with the possibility of a "train wreck."
Last year, in this very section, I griped that in the face of rampant '80s nostalgia, I was prepared to prematurely revisit the decade that followed -- anything to ward off those inane old Poison videos that had returned to haunt us.
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million
The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls.
Alicia Keys is clearing the air on her statements that gangster rap was a government "ploy to convince black people to kill each other" and that the government and media were responsible for the drama between slain rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.
"It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood Nigga killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood" - Ice Cube, "Why we thugs"
A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad. These days of course the freeway ain't so free. The 16-lane snarl-up is an occupational hazard for L.A. commuters who reputedly total up 99 million miles a day between them. Autopia has become autogeddon, complete with a sub-culture of car chases, car-jackings and drive-by shootings. Built as far west as geography would allow and hemmed in only by the Pacific, LA is a crazy town where manifest destiny has been given free reign, where anyone can turn up and claim to be someone -- if their agent is any good. It's a city of angels and demons, where a thin sheen of plastic surgery perfection barely conceals a seedy underworld of hustlers, dealers and movers on the make. That side of the city has long fascinated crime writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy and, more recently
The leader of one band taking part in the 48th Monterey Jazz Festival says his collection of rock stars sets out to create improvised "chaos" on stage -- with the possibility of a "train wreck."
Last year, in this very section, I griped that in the face of rampant '80s nostalgia, I was prepared to prematurely revisit the decade that followed -- anything to ward off those inane old Poison videos that had returned to haunt us.
When I was 12, my dad gave me 10 shares of IBM. Pointing to the columns of tiny numbers in the business section of the Sacramento Bee, he explained that at $66 a share, the total cash value of my "...
Word to Senator Bob Dole: get with it, bro. The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...
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