The life expectancy of the average hip-hop group is comparable to that of the average housefly. Have a smash one year, and you’d better have a smash the next, or you’ll wind up as extinct as the dodo. Sure, a few rhymers (such as Queen Latifah) have beaten this death…
There’s nothing like an early death to prompt critical reconsideration–Frank Zappa, who succumbed to cancer in late 1993 at the age of 52, has gotten a major boost to his reputation. At the time of his passing, the music made by this grumpy auteur was heard by few listeners outside…
Now is the time for all good people to come to the defense of their Pee-wee. I can’t tell you whether he did it. After all, I wasn’t sitting behind the long-haired, goateed man in that Sarasota, Florida, adult movie theatre on July 26, my eyes riveted on his hands…
