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11 111 Ci Ci Ci 11 111 CI CI CI THE POETESS poetess92Saol.com ic Patrol DEF JAM SIGNS SCARFACE betting ready to release his group The Mossie on B The Poetess hot. They have his label Sic Wid It Records this summer. Too so signed veteran rapper Scarface to its phat w album this fall. ET SPANKED! ster of rap stars. Face has left Rap -a -Lot , , native, Kool Keith ' ecords after being with the label for over a HIP HOP ON DISPLAY quite a character. In fact, he's playe ecade. Sources say he refused to help his for- quite a few characters throughout h er label promote his last CD The Last of a Dying San Francisco B illustrious rap career. Black Elvis, Dr. D000m, Dr reed, which achieved gold status. Scarface cur- a between now a Octagon, and Pappa Large are just a few of th ntly heads Def Jam South and is responsible for gust, be sure to che colorful roles Keith has acted out over sick funk igning Ludacris. t the Hip Hop Nati laced tracks. His off beat on beat rhyme -style an bit. The presentati outrageous costumes complete with plastic wi LATIFAH GETS HOUZED r,y and shiny suits, puts him in a category all hi pper/actress/talk show host Queen Latifah is in own. Kool Keith is back, in a starring role e process of working out a production and act - himself, on his new album Spankmaster. "M g deal with Disney and Hyde Park Enter- album Spankmaster is in another dimension, inment. If all goes well, Latifah will be executive emorabilia and says Keith. "This is the best album I've ev- roducer and star in a TV comedy called "In The ifacts originating recorded." The CD includes appearances by H ouze." She will play an inmate who hooks up an m various origins Bomb aka Jacky Jasper, porn -star Heathe nline relationship with an unsuspecting man. She cluding Cleveland's Hunter, and Esham the Holy. His ill lyrical topi eventually released and from what I hear the . k & Roll Hall of range from purple -hazed free flows to hardco ory gets pretty crazy but not too far fetched, after me. The exhibit sexually explicit fantasies. All this comes fro 1 it is Disney. No word on whether the rapstress visited Brooklyn, New York and is now in San the mind of a man who was once a psychiatri ti ill be recording an album anytime soon. I'll have ncisco, California. More than 3000 folks patient at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Th look into that. But there is a single being nded the opening night in Northern Cali. Just outlandish rapper's early beginnings as a mem, leased entitled, "Everywhere You Go." ut every one who's played a significant role in ber and co-founder of the legendary tri' hop has donated personal items to the muse - Ultramagnetic MC's earned him the all importan TWO. MUCH GAME Pictures, old films, records and even clothing "street credibility" among hip -hop heads.,' the Bay Area's rn by the late Notorious B.I.G and Run DMC Ultramagnetic was one of the first rap groups tce most notorious game on display. In addition to the fascinating time - use sampling as an instrument in their songs spitters are planning to ces are speakers, live performances and Hip- - .s ..: leg double up on a recording p films (Remember in Juice," when Tupac -. roject. Too Short and E - ed into "Bishop?"). The next stop is sched- FREEDOM...THE MOST BEAUTIFULEST THING! are in talks with Jive d for Los Angeles. The Hip -Hop Nation Exhibit ecords on possibly ocated at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts out of a Connecticut halfway house and into th doing an album featuring . co. recording studio. Murray served a 3 -year sentenc them as a duo. They've ' in prison for allegedly hitting a teenage club goe rc Short collaborated on each GRADY DIES over the head with a bar stool back in 1995. I s songs in the past and now they're ready to essor Whitman Mayo who was best wasn't until1998 that he was charged and convict mbine the street savvy rhymes of Charlie Hustle known for his role as "Grady" on the classic com- ed of second-degree assault. Even after doing h' d Shorty The Pimp on a joint effort tentatively edy Sanford and Son has died at the age of 70. He stint, he still claims innocense and admits doin tied The History Channel. Both have been back -starred on the series with the late Redd Foxx. time has made him take life a little more serious d forth to Atlanta, Georgia and Oakland, ndolences also go out to the family of Prince ly. Keith got his start in rap music in `94 when h lifornia, casually recording tracks for the CD. Joe. He was killed in a car accident on May hooked up with Eric Sermon and dropped h ne of the songs includes a cut with Stomp on his way home to Los Angeles from debut single "The Most Beautifulest Thing in Th' own, who happens to be incarcerated. They've Arizona. Joe was famous for his rap/reggae style World." He dropped an album that shared th. corded his vocals over the phone. Stomp Down and made noise overseas and was popular in the same title that was certified gold. The raspy voiced res his moving words of prison life in hopes Los Angeles area. He has worked with artists such rhyme spiller is hack and rann' to go. He has ju f steering youngsters in a positive direction. Rick oop .gg, Tupac Mar . - _ . signed a deal with Def Jam Recordings and h. ock, DJ Fingaz and DJ Quik are a few of the epee -er started working on his next album. Keith is cur roducers expected to provide the background THAT'S IT FOR THIS RIME. I'LL CATCH YALL BACK HERE rently featured on a cut called "Wrong 4 Dat" fro usic for 40 and Short to sprinkle game. While A MINUTE. FOR THE MIC PATROL, I'M THE POETESS AND Redman's new CD Malpractice. ailing the green light from Jive Records, E-40.' PM UP OUT THIS PIECE! 38 gavin _/une 8. 2001 www.americanradiohistory.com.
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