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Tupac Shakur is dead, but gangsta rap isn't. Yet. Shakur's posthumous CD, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, which he recorded under the name Makaveli, entered the Billboard charts at No. 1. Last week Snoop Doggy Dogg released his new CD, Tha Doggfather, another likely big seller...
...reason is that Snoop's innovative ex-producer, Dr. Dre, has moved beyond Snoop, beyond gangsta rap (a genre he helped found) and beyond Death Row Records for a new venture: Aftermath Entertainment, a label that will explore genres like soul and pop. Dre's new CD, Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath (out Nov. 26), features performers from his label, from soul singers Kim Summerson and RC to rappers Nowl and Sharief...
...produced the CD, gives all the music gangsta grit--minus much of the usual gangsta venom. Dre contributes one solo performance on the record, the brooding Been There Done That, which takes a swipe at the gangsta genre. "I try out some different things on this album," Dre says. "Yeah. It will surprise some people." --C.J.F...
...this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While the album's overall import falls well short of that of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, it does have its moments...
...also resolved his anger toward Warner Bros. He calls his 1992 contract with the company "a learning experience." The Artist wanted to release more than one CD a year; Warner Bros. thought that would dilute his work. The company also released two CDs of Prince material against his will--The Black Album (1994), a sharp-tongued CD that parodied rap and that Prince had famously shelved; and the uneven Come (1994), a collection of outtakes. The Artist was not amused...