From Behind Bars, a Rapper Aims at the Top of the Chart
Correction Appended
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Vivendi Universal's Def Jam Recordings has signed rapper Jamaal Barrow, known as Shyne, to multi-million dollar contract, but his hard-core image and tangles with law may be drawbacks as company markets his new album Godfather Buried Alive; Shyne is serving 10-year sentence for his role in 1999 nightclub shooting; material for album was recorded before he went to prison, but trend in hip-hop music today is away from dark, violent imagery of his music; single released ahead of album has not done well
Correction: August 11, 2004, Wednesday A chart with an article on Sunday about the release of an album by the imprisoned rap artist Shyne misstated the record sales of other performers with criminal records in some copies. Tupac Shakur had 1 gold album (at least 500,000 copies sold), 3 platinum (at least one million copies) and 5 multiplatinum (two million or more), not 10 gold, 9 platinum and 12 multiplatinum albums. Besides 4 platinum albums, Merle Haggard had 5 gold albums, not 9; besides 1 platinum album, James Brown had 1 gold
And the morons in the media and Hollywood calls this as the number one form of entertainment? I wonder if these jackasses would feel comfortable when these rapping monkeys come after their children and women how would they react. Phoney bastards.
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