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    Jun 25, 2000 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Lil' Kim: Notoriously misunderstood

    Isaac Guzman is a staff writer for the New York Daily News
    NEW YORK -- It's just before midnight in a Manhattan dance studio, and Lil' Kim is dancing in formation with five other women, throwing her arms across her chest and moving her torso in time to a startling blend of Cuban rhythms and hip-hop rhymes. She's...

    Tags: Ice Cube, Entertainment, Notorious B.I.G., Queen Latifah, The Happiest News!

  2. Oct 3, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Label finds rapper's crime doesn't pay

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    Jailhouse rap has turned out to be a bust for Def Jam Records. The New York label last year won a multimillion-dollar bidding war to sign imprisoned rapper Shyne. Before the release of his debut CD, "Godfather Buried Alive," Def Jam made sure its new...

    Tags: Time Warner Inc., Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Bars and Clubs, Sony Corp.

  4. Jan 22, 1998 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. 'Suge' Knight's rap: Death Row owner offers his views from prison

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Two years ago, Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight and Seagram Co. Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. sat together listening to rap music in the back of a parked limo in Santa Monica. Bronfman smiled politely and told Knight how much he looked forward...

    Tags: Time Warner Inc., Gang Activity, Entertainment, Dr. Dre (music artist), Suge Knight

  6. Feb 15, 1994 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Rap finds a supporter in Rep. Maxine Waters

    Special To The Times
    As the debate over the social impact of gangsta rap spills over to Capitol Hill hearings, the controversial musical genre has picked up a powerful new ally: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. "It would be a foolhardy mistake to single out poets as the cause of...

    Tags: Ice Cube, Minority Groups, Gang Activity, Al Gore, Democratic Party

  8. Mar 15, 1997 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. 'Biggie's death will be another wake-up call'

    Rap music star Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was shot to death leaving a music industry party in Los Angeles last weekend. The drive-by murder was the second brazen attack on a gangsta rap celebrity in the past six months. Brent Anthony Collins...

    Tags: Gun Control, Health, African Americans, Drug Trafficking, Interior Policy

  10. Oct 24, 1993 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. They sure figured something out

    Robert Hilburn is The Times' pop music critic. Chuck Philips writes about pop music for Calendar
    Jimmy Iovine, whose credits as a record producer and engineer range from John Lennon to U2, still winces at the humiliation of being turned down by everyone he approached in 1989 to invest in the record company he wanted to start. "People took my calls...

    Tags: Bono, Television, Wages and Pensions, Parties and Movements, Time Warner Inc.

  12. Jan 24, 1996 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. MCA to buy half-stake in Interscope

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Defying opponents of "gangsta rap," MCA Inc. has completed a $200-million partnership deal with Interscope Records, the controversial Westwood label that Time Warner Inc. abandoned four months ago after a heated national debate over Interscope's lyrics....

    Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Time Warner Inc., David Geffen, Tupac Shakur

  14. May 18, 1995 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Time Warner braces for complaints against rap

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Time Warner Inc. is bracing itself in New York today for an onslaught of complaints regarding the firm's involvement in controversial rap music as stockholders gather for the media giant's annual shareholders' meeting. Rap critic C. Delores Tucker,...

    Tags: Television, Amusement and Theme Parks, Poetry, Juvenile Delinquency, Time Warner Inc.

  16. May 25, 1997 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Sean Combs: Bad Boy II man

    Chuck Philips covers the pop music industry for The Times' Business section
    NEW YORK -- Behind the glass at Sean "Puffy" Combs' midtown Manhattan recording studio, singer Faith Evans fights back tears as she lays down the plaintive chorus to "I'll Be Missing You," a duet single dedicated to her slain husband, gangsta rap star the...

    Tags: Television, Economy, Business and Finance, Movies, Health and Safety at School, Human Accomplishments

  18. Jul 15, 1993 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Rap defense doesn't stop death penalty

    Special To The Times
    AUSTIN, Tex. -- The Song ' I got a tech-9 now his smokin' ass is mine . . . Comin' quickly up the streets is the punk ass police the first one jumped out and said freeze . I popped him in his knees . ' "Crooked Ass Nigga" from recording...

    Tags: Ice Cube, Ozzy Osbourne, Poetry, Juvenile Delinquency, Time Warner Inc.

  20. May 31, 1996 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Rap foes put 20 artists on a hit list

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    WASHINGTON -- Escalating their attack on "gangsta music," anti-rap crusaders C. DeLores Tucker and William Bennett called on major record labels Thursday to sever their relationship with artists whose songs contain explicit sexual and violent lyrics....

    Tags: Television, Poetry, Children, Time Warner Inc., Entertainment

  22. Mar 19, 1997 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Crowds mourn rapper in N.Y.

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    NEW YORK -- Resplendent in a double-breasted white suit and white hat, the body of rap music star Notorious B.I.G. was driven through the streets of his old Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday as police struggled to hold back frenzied fans trying to follow...

    Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Herbert Daughtry, Gang Activity, Queen Latifah, Notorious B.I.G.

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