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...students were already at work in the lab, poking around the video introduction to Africana, visiting everythingblack.com and loudly playing DMX, Christina Aguilera...
...White Skin, White Masks. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, has managed to create a media-ready outsize racial persona--dyed blond hair, played-up trailer-trash roots--that can compete with the color and spark of other stars in today's multicultural music universe, from gangsta rapper DMX to Latin pop sensation Ricky Martin...
...track, Eminem raps that he "became a commodity/because I'm W-H-I-T-E/cause MTV was so friendly to me." Maybe someday we'll get to the colorblind place. Maybe some day Britney and Ricky and Eminem and DMX will sit around a campfire and their voices will drift up to the sky: "Kum ba yah, my Lord, Kum ba yah..." But for now, guys like Eminem have an advantage, and they're working it for all it's worth...
...might expect that a movie with Aaliyah and DMX in starring roles (yes, they "act" in it) would have a good soundtrack, even if the movie is an utterly torturous hour and a half of sheer mediocrity. After all, the movie isn't likely to have sensitive portrayals of the deepest recesses of the human soul (no Walkens or De Niros here), but you might expect something on the soundtrack along the lines of "Are You the Somebody" or "Where My Dogs...
...lost, though. You might have already heard Aaliyah's opening track "Try Again" on 94.5, due in large part to its "Hot Boyz"-inspired use of bass and distortion (the lyrics are about as clichd as they come). The second track too-this one with both Aaliyah and DMX-might make its way into a club, somewhere during a full set dedicated to DMX's canine persona. C+ -Franklin J. Leonard...