 AIDS PROOF
The Voodoo Magic Behind the Whores of PumwaniMention sex, and the average Kenyan blushes. Topics like homosexuality are verboten here and they're greeted with riots of laughter. Odd, because men walk down the street arm in arm, holding hands, hugging and walking. Victorian attitudes and freewheeling tribal customs make bizarre bedfellows. Men ...
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  BEATS + RHYMES
What's crack-a-lacking? 2001 is coming to an end, so you know what time it is... time for my annual "Fritz the Cat's GREEN BOTTLES RAP AWARDS." Basically, this is the shit I liked and didn't like in 2001.
OPEN-BAR AWARD
FOR SHIT THAT RULED IN 2001:
Alicia Keys. Nate Dogg on...
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 ASTRO BOYS UNITE
A New Generation of Japanese Art Has Arrived"Takashi Murakami is an old man," says painter Tim Evans of the only animé painter/sculptor anyone has ever heard of. "There are so many of us all over the States and Japan that grew up with Astro Boy and have been working with images like these, but all people know about is that sculpture where the...
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 HEROIN CANDY
Freezepop Make Cute a NecessityFor all ye olde indie rockers jonesing for that Tiger Trap/Tuscadero-esque sound, Freezepop have arrived with your fix. They are the type of band you may want to hate at first like ABBA or The Strokes, but can't resist devouring until you have a stomachache. They're like a combination of Human Leagu...
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 LAST NITE
I Got Inexcusably Drunk With The StrokesBeing a magazine and everything we get a lot of big record companies sending us stuff and offering us all-expenses-paid trips to interview their bands. Unfortunately, they usually want editorial for something that is already too gigantic to say anything new about. When we were offered an all expense...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Phoenecia, Richard Devine, Schematic, Ghostly International, Sam Valenti IV, James Cotton, DMX KREW, I-F, Adult, Jetone , Force Inc., Ovuca , Rephlex, Marumari , Carpark, Scott Heren, Blechdom, Tigerbeat6,...
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 SOUL SURVIVOR
Ghostface Killah Is Still BulletproofSomewhere between 36 Chambers and right now, rap became infected. The majority of it went from a great place to go after punk lost its edge to a fucking Sambo jamboree. When you see Jermaine Dupri fall out of the sky and land into a gaggle of bikini-clad models and say "uh ooooh" with his Donald Duc...
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 THE GEOGRAPHY OF HIP HOP
A Vice Guide to the USATHE EAST COAST
There's nothing like good old East Coast rap–gritty lyricism and sample-based music. To this day, East Coast MCs are measured against the meticulously constructed rhymes of legends like Rakim or Big Daddy Kane, while beatsmiths strive to attain DJ Premier-like perfection. ...
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 LITERARY
Alice Doll, Madonna, An Intimate Biography, Badaboom GramophoneAlice Doll
Vol. 1
I've come to the conclusion that Japanese pop culture is inbred. They live on an island and don't let anyone in, so their fashion and music culture is not an interesting hybrid of Japanese vs. international influences, it is simply a bastardization of internati...
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 THE HEART AND SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE
Bogdan Raczynski's Sickeningly Sweet Love SongsBogdan Raczynski, whose musical output up to now has been some all-well-and-good skittery techno on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label, has just released a bona fide masterpiece.
If Steven Spielberg had half a brain, he would have hired Bogdan to compose the score for A.I. – Artificial Intelligence...
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 THE WAR AGAINST KRYLON
Bombing Is Encouraged All Over EuropeThe worse it gets for graffiti artists in North America the better it gets in Europe. While Krylon has watered down their paints to the point of grape juice, European companies keep coming out with bigger and better spray cans totally devoted to being the best graffiti paint around.
Spain's...
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 TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v8n101 THE SEDITIONIST
Our favorite thing from Freshjive's weirdest series of clothes and accessories. The Seditionist is the Mike York doll. Not only does York skate for monsters like Chocolate, he is also the funniest dude we know. Now he's a fucking action man with a goalie mask, a riot sh...
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 TRASH TRINKETS
Our Top ThreeAMANDA RAY
Amanda was recently talking to VICE about the intersection of art and fashion. We assumed jewelry would be the answer. Ray spends most of her time in a dark basement working on her earrings and chains. When she's not doing that she's finishing a piece for New York's miniature ...
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 GAMES
Luigi's MansionLuigi's Mansion
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
Platform: GameCube
Genre: Action/Puzzler
Rating: Everyone
I can't believe the same company responsible for the Super Mario series released this game as a flagship title. A new Nintendo console usually me...
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