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	Music Meltdown - February 19, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Above The Law's members show that they have grown a little older and wiser with this 16-track follow-up to Time Will Reveal.
		Credit ATL for dumping "gangsta rap" (which was dead long before Dr.Dre said so) and embracing "ghetto flow," which allows the world to know that the West Coast hip-hop scene is still breathing and has something new to give us.
		The band, striving to make its fans focus on the music, became almost purely political awhile back, fighting for all the other bands in the name of integrity, and the music became wallpaper.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/91/100/14_2_m.html (941 words)

	JamBands.com - Online Music Magazine
		The band builds the rhythm behind Warren, as he repeats "Is it all a dream?" Haynes captures the frantic nature of the desperation the song speaks to without being too gratuitous.
		However, the band's vocals are at a peak, as is the rock power and the sheer certainness of their jamming.
		This just may be the next band to change the way music is currently going: hopefully to drag it from its electronic base to stare into itself, eventually to realize that nothing can replace a dirty, reverb drenched guitar, great harmonies, and top-notch songwriting.
	www.jambands.com /mar00/monthly/cdreviews.html (14922 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Gangsta Rap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		N.W.A. and gangsta rap's popularity was compounded with the release of their second album EFIL4ZAGGIN in 1991, which debuted at number two in the Billboard chart with neither a single nor a video and became the first rap album to reach number one.
		While it has been criticized for glorifying the negativity of the streets, gangsta rap's defenders claim that the rappers are simply reporting what really goes on in their neighborhoods; that drugs, prostitution, violence, and sexual promiscuity are all features of their daily existence.
		For white middle-class male youths, gangsta rap possibly fulfills the same role as the blaxploitation films, attracting listeners for whom the "ghetto" is the location of adventure, violence, erotic fantasy, an alternative to the conformity and banality of suburbia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100489 (802 words)

	COPYRIGHT LAW FOR THEATRE DIRECTORS AND ACTORS
		Those laws are important to us for a number of reasons, directly affecting our process of writing, selecting, preparing, and performing plays, and although copyright is as complicated and hard to master as theatre itself, web sites can give us at least some direction.
		The law requires that it exist in some tangible form -- it can't just be in your head or sailing through the ether, it has to be on disk, paper, carved in stone (sculpture) or the like.
		The copyright laws say that a playwright owns his or her play with precisely the same legal certainty as a person owns a car or someone owns an apartment complex.
	lecatr.people.wm.edu /copy.htm (8463 words)

	Recent Changes to Copyright
		In the past two years, legislators shaping intellectual property law for the digital age have heard vociferous testimony from the content industry concerning their fears of tremendous revenue losses unless copyright laws are tightened.
		Proposed legislation that would turn copyright laws into economic guarantees for the copyright holders is just the most recent in a series of attempts by the content industry to tilt the balance in their favor.
		However, laws devised to protect the "ownership" of transmittable information have, for example, resulted in a music industry in which the very idea of a collage is a dangerous one, and artists inspired by "direct reference" forms of creation do not have the "right" to decide what their own art will consist of.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /~howard/Papers/copyright99.html (6217 words)

	CMT.com : Ice-T : Biography
		While he was in high school, he became obsessed with rap while he went to Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles.
		Ice-T took the band out on tour that summer, as he performed on the first Lollapalooza tour.
		On the basis of the track "Cop Killer" -- where he sang from the point-of-view of a police murderer -- the record ignited a national controversy; it was protested by the NRA and police activist groups.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/ice_t/bio.jhtml (831 words)

	KinsellaLaw
		In addition, the law degree is usually a Juris Doctor (J.D.), yet many lawyers insist on calling it a a "Juris Doctorate", I suppose out of ignorance or to make it sound more impressive.
		An expletive-laden voice-mail message, reproduced on blog KinsellaLaw.com, left by an associate at one law firm for a colleague at another is making the rounds in cyberspace, with young lawyers seizing on the message as a symbol of declining civility within the profession.
		This is soon to be part of law firm urban legend along with that summer associate from Skadden [I earlier guessed--wrongly--that they meant here Tucker Max's story, The true story behind "The Now Infamous Tucker Max Charity Auction Debacle" email --SK]--it's already making it's way around the email circuit.
	www.kinsellalaw.com (7734 words)

	Ebony: A different rap: Arrested Development - rap music group
		And the talented, hip-hop, rap crew, which glorifies Southern rural life and respect for Black women and family-oriented values, has captivated old and young fans alike with high-energy, festive performance that feature live drummers, dancers, rappers, singers and, yes, chickens.
		What distinguishes Arrested Development from other rap groups is their positive, family-oriented themes, a welcome departure from the misogynistic and violent lyrics of controversial hard-core rap acts.
		As a rap duo, they performed boastful, profanity-filled, music in small clubs in Gainesville and Douglasville, Ga. After hearing Public Enemy's militant song, "Rebel Without a Pause," Speech and Headliner changed their musical focus and dropped the negative lyrics for more politically tinged songs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n1_v49/ai_14258241 (1296 words)

	Werner's Fun Page
		There're actually a couple different rap records ostensibly by former president Ronald Reagan; but this is the penultimate, with the music video where Reagan takes a limo into the projects and raps to them to drum up some minority support in the upcoming election.
		Entry forms were included for listeners to try their hand rapping over the instrumental track "Rappin' To the Beat," and the winner would get his/ her song released on wax by JWP Records.
		A rap based on a segment in his film, History Of the World, part 1, where King Louis XVI relishes in the joys of being an aristocrat, this is an all-time hip-hop classic, novelty or not.
	members.aol.com /ProfQuater/Fun.html (7461 words)

	Azimel's Rants ~*~ Still Dancing Like A Monkey
		In fact, I bet there must be some kind of law stating that if you dare make a video that corresponds to the song, you will be brought out into the street and shot.
		My absolute favorite rap music videos are the one where the song is about the guy cheating on his girl, and then in the video the girl is cheating on the guy.
		Like they (they being the rap artist) think if they dazzle the audience with a video, they'll ignore the song underneath.
	azimel.diaryland.com /030519_78.html (426 words)

	Turmel Gambling Press to 1989
		It turns out that when the old English laws were written outalwing gaming and whorehouses (or disorderly houses), it was not because the public felt that gambling ad whoring were evil but that they were loud and noisy and impugned the reputations of the neighborhoods.
		So the law clearly distinguishes between legal and illegal gambling activity and this distinction resides in the notion of fairness as defined by the lack of mathematical bias in the rules.
		His latest run-in with the law and the episode which may send him to the Supreme Court occurred May 24 when he was arrested at a game he was operating in the Talisman Hotel.
	www.cyberclass.net /turmel/prsgame.htm (19390 words)

	CMT.com : N.W.A. : Biography
		N.W.A, the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap, are in many ways the most notorious group in the history of rap.
		Public Enemy had rewritten the rules of hardcore rap by proving that it could be intelligent, revolutionary, and socially aware, N.W.A capitalized on PE's sonic breakthroughs while ignoring their message.
		Gangsta rap established itself as the most popular form of hip-hop during the '90s -- in other words, N.W.A's amoralistic, hedonistic stance temporarily triumphed over the socially conscious, self-award hip-hop of Public Enemy, and it completely rewrote the rules of hip-hop for the '90s.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/nwa/bio.jhtml (863 words)

	Michaelcosm \| The Clickable Michael Engelbrecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Run-D.M.C. helped move rap from a singles-oriented genre to an album-oriented one -- they were the first hip-hop artist to construct full-fledged albums, not just collections with two singles and a bunch of filler.
		As the first all-female rap crew (even their DJs were women) of importance, the group broke down a number of doors for women in hip-hop.
		Allmusic says their songs were primarily party and love anthems, driven by big beats and interlaced with vaguely pro-feminist lyrics that seemed more powerful when delivered by the charismatic and sexy trio.
	www.michaelcosm.com (7476 words)

	presenceofmind.net
		The headline above, a nice rendering of my favorite spots on XM, is taken from a book I started but never finished about a Progressive DJ who had seen the moment of his greatness flicker.
		Rap 'n' Soul is an attempt to hold the herd together.
		The immense blast of sound he delivered with The Band in 1966 is the birthing agony of Rock as a brand new genre of music.
	www.presenceofmind.net /2004_09_12_archive.html (5780 words)

	Hudson - CENSORSHIP OF STUDENT INTERNET SPEECH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In addition to Internet content laws, such as the CDA and COPA, federal and state legislators have proposed a variety of measures to require filtering at public libraries and schools.
		"Thus, from the cases noted above, it is evident that the courts have allowed school officials to discipline students for conduct occurring off of school premises where it is established that the conduct materially and substantially interferes with the educational process," the majority wrote.
		Student Press Law Center, Law of the Student Press at 43 (1994) ("[s]o if a publication can be described as independent of the school's curriculum, Tinker will set the standard for administrative censorship.").
	www.law.msu.edu /lawrev/2000-1/Hudson.htm (7590 words)

	Rocknerd \| The Rap Against Rockism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		So she performed a now-infamous little jig, then skulked offstage, while the band (were a few members smirking?) played on.
		Like rock 'n' roll itself, rockism is full of contradictions: it could mean loving the Strokes (a scruffy guitar band!) or hating them (image-conscious poseurs!) or ignoring them entirely (since everyone knows that music isn't as good as it used to be).
		The rockism debate began when British bands questioned whether the search for raw, guitar-driven authenticity wasn't part of rock 'n' roll's problem, instead of its solution; some new-wave bands emphasized synthesizers and drum machines and makeup and hairspray, instead.
	rocknerd.org /article.pl?sid=04/11/02/0010252&mode=thread&tid=20 (2262 words)

	Lawyer: Lil’ Kim thought she was above law - RAP/HIP-HOP MUSIC - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NEW YORK - Rapper Lil’ Kim believed she was above the law and that being a Grammy-winning superstar allowed her to lie to a grand jury investigating a wild shootout outside a Manhattan radio station, a federal prosecutor said during closing arguments Monday.
		Lil’ Kim, 30, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, is on trial for lying to a federal grand jury investigating two of her associates, Suif Jackson and Damion Butler, in a 2001 shootout with a rival hip-hop group.
		Maybe she believed she was a Queen Bee above the law.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7182241 (649 words)

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		These guys had to help inspire Spinal Tap, at the end of their shows, they'd have everyone in the band (except the drummer) strap-on a guitar and play simultaneous leads (there were enough Bics lighted in the audience to make it day-light like).
		Their lead guitar player called himself Buck Dharma and had some sort of stun-guitar gimmick that I could never quite figure out what it was all about.
		Definitely one of Homer's fav bands during High School, I bet he even dropped acid at one of their concerts.
	www.snpp.com /episodes/CABF22.html (5979 words)

	Dr. Dre - Rap Dictionary
		Dre, is a pioneer of today's hip-hop culture and gangsta rap.
		In 1986, he and fellow World Class Wreckin' Cru member DJ Yella were two of the founding members of N.W.A., a highly successful and controversial group that created the protoype for much of what was termed "gangsta rap" in the 1990s.
		The track was intended as a symbolic good-bye to gangsta rap, in which Dre suggested that he is moving on to another level of music and lifestyle.
	www.rapdict.org /Dr._Dre (1031 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Soldiers of an Islamist New World Order by Joe Kaufman
		Soldiers of Allah (SOA), a Los Angeles-based rap group that now goes under the name Muslim Studio, was the brainchild of Ali Ardekani.
		about Muslim rap, when he was attending an Islamic camp and a “brother from [sic] east coast” showed him a song he had written.
		When analyzing the above quote, one is posed with a dilemma: How does a novice reader of the site make sense of the “correct” from the “incorrect?” The passage is deceiving.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9411 (2190 words)

	New Sophists' Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She included elements of traditional Japanese music in her big band arrangements, and her white-saxophonist husband Lew Tabackin also doubled on the shakuhachi, which at times he played with prodigious skill.
		She also had a pretty complete mastery of big band arrangement techniques apparently gleaned from careful study of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and the like.
		In the band I used to play in, I'd get into arguments with the Korean bassist about him declaring that the chord progression I'd written -- invariably a weird one -- was "wrong".
	www.newsophists.net (5764 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Two bands from the former Yugoslavia bring their different musical styles to Moscow this weekend.
		This is thug law, a death-cult of blood and domination -- the true religion of the Bushists and their mirror-image crimelords in al-Qaida.
		Alberto Gonzales' Tortured Arguments for Reigning Above the Law
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/02/04/120.html (1154 words)

	planet-hiphop.com: new world order hip hop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the issue was Clinton, Republicans told us it was about the "rule of law".
		There's no mistakening this for the Making of the Band or American Idol, if there was a tv show about these rhymesayers, it would be Welcome to the Terrordome.
		In the tradition of Mos Def's "Hip Hop 4 Respect" or "America is Dying Slowly", the Rap Anarchists Compilation Series is underground hip hop's response to the need for judicial and social reform.
	www.planet-hiphop.com (493 words)

	Badda Blog!: January 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For future reference, "hip-hop" is a term that denotes the culture that rap music grew out of: that of young, urban, mostly Black and Latino youth.
		Little did I know at the time that they were pioneers of electro music and, had rap not been changed forever by Run DMC, might have had more of a popular impact than they did.
		And that was me - 9 years old and hooked on rap music by a group whose popularity and style of rapping would fade shortly thereafter my obsession with one of their most popular songs.
	www.baddaboom.org /archives/2005/01 (8995 words)

	Spoken Word Movement
		Still, there is no denying the strong connection between rap music and poetry, and many spoken word artists who read their poetry over a hip-hop beat sound a lot like rap singers.
		The spoken word poetry movement of the 1990's was similar to the Beats in the 1960's, right down to the goatees, improvisational style, and coffeehouse vibe of the poets (leading to the nickname of "Wanna-Beats" for spoken word artists).
		James continues in her glowing review of Spoken Word Unplugged with the following: "'Unplugged' assumes that rap is street poetry and that street poetry is a vocal, visceral expression of contemporary life The 'Unplugged' special grasp(s) the importance of this vibrant, essential and growing means of self-expression.
	www.msu.edu /~miazgama/spokenword.htm (2847 words)

	David Lasley - Reviews
		It's a crazy list, to be sure, but Lasley is not resting on his resume.
		Above all, he’s a zealous fan and an ardent champion of pop music.
		With his concerts depending heavily on crisp vocals and smooth harmonies, most band members are likely to hit the sack early after guzzling a spot of tea.
	www.davidlasley.com /reviews.html (5196 words)

	VH1.com : Ice-T : Ice-T Kicks Off The Players Tour With Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On the latest album, Ice-T has mostly abandoned socially conscious lyrics for new raps that focus more on the money he has accumulated and the things he can buy.
		In the end, it's all part of the player's game, he'll tell you, and his fans are only too happy to have him back any way they can.
		Despite a backlash from conservative groups and law-enforcement officials, the rapper went on to become one of the top-selling gangsta acts in the business over the past decade.
	www.vh1.com /artists/news/500722/08241998/ice_t.jhtml (947 words)

	Pennsylvania Dutch Culture
		Pontio is above Pilato"-and thus the hex doctor sometimes saves a half-cracked brain from some other serious aberration, in a not much different manner than the medical doctor who gives a patient colored water as medicine and does not laugh at his groundless fears.
		As happens nearly every year In, Lancaster county, Pa., a number of Amishmen recently spent three days; in jail for keeping their children over 14 home from school To the Amish, learning to farm is the best education for sons who under their faith will: inevitably be farmers.
		Their impasse with Pennsylvania's school laws in one of the few situations in which Amish become involved with courts for any reason, or with in outside world that they would rather accept peaceably.
	www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/culture/index.htm (19961 words)

	Too White Crew -- All live hip hop tribute band.
		The dummies writing the law books out there don't even realize that club music spun by a DJ can rage much louder than a band.
		By the time we were done, the island was at capacity for the first time in over a year, with most of them wondering when our second set was gonna start.
		TWC and Hairbanger's Ball (yeah, you know 'em) were the only two bands to get Miller's lovin' in Chi-town, so we proud to be in the company of the glam rock tribute kings and the parent company of our favorite, Old English.
	www.toowhitecrew.com (5822 words)

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