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...things they want or are willing to do with the group's sex organs is an exercise in brutalization. It doesn't make N.W.A. seem baaad, it makes them look awful. M.C. Ren doesn't see it that way, natch. "Ever since we did Just Don't Bite It ((on the EP 100 Miles and Runnin')), girls tell me how much they like it," he says. "They like She Swallowed It a lot. The only people who think our stuff is bad are the people who don't listen...
Consciously or not, these films tend to serve as expressions of the values or confusions jangling around in their society, or occasionally as springboards for earnest discussions of them. At a time when moral discourse has been reduced to the size of a sound bite and rapid social change has everyone on edge, the messages conveyed in even the most frolicking of these movies stir peculiar passions. Such films often have an astonishing afterlife, not only in popular memory but as artifacts that vividly define their times...
JAZZ SAXOPHONISTS can often size one another up by the age of their instruments. An old and weathered sax sounds the way an aged wine tastes: smooth and mellow, but with a bite. Last year's vintage is for the nouveauriche, the amateurs...
...Baby. When Bowie and Queen threatened a lawsuit, the rapper eventually added them to the composer credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling the song for his platinum single, U Can't Touch This...
PROFILE Proposed CIA director Bob Gates is bland, with a bite...