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Articles by Jon Caramanica
Survivors?
Survivors?
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

You thought Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was tough? Try keeping a slot in an of-the-moment girl group. There…

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Eminem and 'dem
Eminem and ‘dem
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

D12 Devil’s Night (Shady/Interscope) Eminem told Spin recently that he started his label, Shady Records, only to put out his…

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Businessmen: (clockwise from left) Master P, Suge, and Puffy.
The last dons?
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Hip-hop’s first don was Russell Simmons, who in the early ’80s partnered with a longhair named Rick Rubin and converted…

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Mystikal
This is slack jobbing, Vol. 2
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

This week, I listened to albums so you don’t have to. . . .

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Scarred sons
Scarred sons
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

No artist in hip-hop has gone as criminally unsung as Scarface. For well over a decade, the Houston native has…

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Garage Sale, Vol. 1
Garage Sale, Vol. 1
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

It’s hard work representing for the hip-hop nation. So hard, in fact, that no institution seems capable of giving out…

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A love like yours is rare: Atlantic Starr.
Starr struck
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

After my dad got burned in a carburetor explosion at the auto repair shop he owned and managed, my mom…

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Jillin' for beats
Jillin’ for beats
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Mariah Carey strips down to a rawer hip-hop sound.

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The peacemaker
The peacemaker
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Making up is hard to do. At last week’s MTV Video Music Awards, Destiny’s Child (at least, what’s left of…

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Jurassic 5: Touted as the group to save Los Angeles from its morass of self-indulgence.
Rap dinosaurs
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Do you remember the Los Angeles season of MTV’s The Real World? Race and politics were all over that ill-fated…

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. . . my thing was to take the whole fucking tamale and put my stamp all over it. . . .
Niggaz We Assimilate—Dynamite Hackand Kid606
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Seeing a bunch of white guys bopping across MTV pretending to be rappers is no cause for critical reflection these…

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More songs about bitches and the 'hood: 8ball &MJG.
Hard pimps
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Methinks the baller doth protest too much. Polite, gold-toothed, braided, and jovial-as-he-wants-to-be, 8ball is hardly the prototype for post-Too Short…

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Masked avenger
Masked avenger
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895) We wear the mask that grins and lies It hides our…

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Pulling punches: Mos Def goes rock with Jack Johnson.
Black rock
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Mos Def and company transition from hip-hop to Hendrix, but can it be done?

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Rah Digga strikes a Lauryn Hill pose.
Pretty thugs
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Chick rappers used to be only slightly more popular than white rappers. Or gay rappers. In the brutally masculinist world…

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Pastor Troy
Slanguistics
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

PASTOR TROY Face Off Madd Society/Universal PREFUSE 73 Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives Warp THE SOUTH’S FIRST HIP-HOP wave may…

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Ras has found a home with a beat.
Rap Smart
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

RAS KASS Van Gogh (Priority) Ras Kass was the answer. Seven years ago, the Carson, Calif., native appeared out of…

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Fab raps like a well-trained machine.
Coming off the bench
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

FABOLOUS Ghetto Fabolous (Desert Storm/Elektra) Twenty-plus years of hip-hop evolution—a steady, sometimes seismic process of natural selection—and at the beginning…

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LL Cool J: Ill bombs and dot-coms.
Ghostown.com
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

About a month before 360hiphop.com launched, the bombs started dropping. Every morning, as folks would turn on their machines, the…

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DJ Shadow turns the tables with a compilation of brass band music.
Brass monkeys
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

I had checked off “percussion” when Ms. Weiskopf handed out the thin slip of paper that listed our sixth-grade band…

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Dream: An escape from Puffy's nightmare?
Puffy’s Angels
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Pity the P. Diddy. For the past two weeks, Sean Combs has been trapped in court all day, listening to…

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Jay-Z talks the fight.
Roc Star Beef
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Hip-hop’s lyrical fight club

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Gettin' It on the Streets
Gettin’ It on the Streets
By Jon Caramanica • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

Certain things are meant to be bought on the street. It’s clear, for example, that the trade in certain mind-altering…

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