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Mr. Cheeks – Interview
Getting down with Mr. Cheeks. What’s happen? Just chillin’ G, what’s happen with you? Not much. So how long did you work on the album? About three and a half months. When did you wrap it up? End of the summer. What have you been up to since then? Just laid back. I spend the…
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Mr. Cheeks – Back Again
Artist: Mr. Cheeks Title: Back Again Label: Universal Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: In the 10 years he’s been on the hip hop scene, Mr. Cheeks’ fearlessness has never been more apparent than on his new CD, Back Again his second solo for Universal Records. The Good: “Supposed To” – Cheeks brings the rhymes while Floetry…
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Blackstreet – Level II
Artist: Blackstreet Title: Level II Label: Dreamworks Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: According to the members of BLACKstreet, the variety of sounds heard on Level II goes a long way toward explaining its appeal. “We’ve always been a mixture of gospel, street music and R&B,” says Hannibal. The Good: “She’s Hot” – Fantastic song that goes…
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Magic – White Eyes
Artist: Magic Title: White Eyes Label: No Limit Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Artists often use their own lives in order to ground their work. For Magic, a wealth of titillating experiences is only a thought away. The New Orleans rapper, who hit the scene with 1998’s underground critically acclaimed “Sky’s The Limit” and 1999’s well-received…
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Line Of Sight: Vietnam
Game: Line Of Sight: Vietnam Platform: PC Studio: Infogrames Rating: 8/10 Game Company’s Description: Ambush the Vietnamese army in the dead of night as you track enemy soldiers through dense Southeastern jungles! Look: Fantastic graphics. The jungle is astonishing to look at. The trees to the grass to the bushes, amazing and the soldiers are…
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IGI 2: Covert Striker
Game: IGI 2: Covert Striker Platform: PC Studio: Codemasters Rating: 7/10 Game Company’s Description: This new IGI 2: Covert Strike sampler is set in a 1950s Soviet weather station, high in the Carpathian Mountains and has David Jones, our IGI (Institute for Geotactical Intelligence) agent, on a reconnaissance mission tracking down a nano-technology chip, held…
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Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven
Game: Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven Platform: PS2 Studio: Activision Rating: 8/10 Look: The environments are done well. Buildings are done well and nicely detailed. The characters’ faces are fantastically modeled. Their bodies are still a little blocky and overall feel more like cartoon characters than being realistic. The attacks are bloody just the way gamers…
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The All-American Rejects – Interview
On the line with Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects! It’s funny, not just a few minutes ago I was watching a screening of a television show and your single “Swing, Swing” was used in it. Really? What show? “Black Sash”. It was funny because in the beginning of the show it says that not…
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Willard
Cast: Crispin Glover Studio: New Line Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: A social misfit, Willard (Crispin Glover) is constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and squeezed out of the family business by his boss (R. Lee Ermey). But then he makes an eerie discovery: he seems to share a powerful bond with the rats that…
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Futurama: Volume One
Cast: animation Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: Hungry aliens, delicious humans, and beer-fueled robots collide as the Emmy Award-winning animated television comedy “Futurama” makes its highly anticipated DVD debut in the Futurama Volume One DVD Collection. Matt Groening, the creator and Executive Producer of “The Simpsons,” has hatched another outrageous look at the world,…
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