Articles tagged "master p"

Music Review

Master P: Featuring…Master P

by Josh Timmermann

[14.Dec.07] :. Gangsta rap stumbled somewhere between Biggie and Jeezy. This collection is a lumbering reminder of that dry spell.

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Music Feature

Deadly Packaging: The Cover Art of No Limit Records

by Drew Hinshaw

[14.Nov.07] :. If any one visual movement did justice to the absurd, untenable profitability of that dot-com windfall, it was the striking art of No Limit Records, the apex and nadir of commercial hip-hop thuggery.

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Film Review

Desert Bayou

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.07] :. For the most part, the film's collection of personal stories consider Katrina's ongoing and profound effects.

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Yesterday's Jukebox Feature

Master P: Ghetto D

by Tim O'Neil

[19.Jul.07] :. You'd be hard pressed to make an argument for Ghetto D as one of the great rap albums of the '90s, or even, really, a very good album at all.

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TV Review

Dancing with the Stars

by Amanda Ann Klein

[10.Jan.06] :. I anticipated lots of debonair campiness. Sadly, George Hamilton's biggest mistake in the first episode was to make his desire to be Season Two's John O'Hurley so overt.

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Film DVD Review

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

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Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

Lockdown (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.May.03] :. The trouble that accompanies them is not of their own making -- it's a function of being young, black, 'in the wrong place' by definition.

Dark Blue (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.03] :. This is a scary city, where scary figures hang out on scary corners and slouch with scary insouciance. No wonder the cops are tense.

Lockdown (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Feb.03] :. Takes its political and ethical subjects seriously.

Undisputed (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.02] :. Masculinity, integrity, brutality: Walter Hill's usual themes.

Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Contrary to its titular promise of speed speed speed, this latest Jerry Bruckheimer actioner takes pretty much forever to get to its wholly predictable and humdrum finale. Gone in 60 Seconds...