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What's Confidential This Month
PLEASE STAY...Cheech Marin's 1987 music video, "Born In East LA," was based on Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." The song and video were novelties in the Weird Al Yankovic tradition. Cheech played it for laughs, even though there was no question that his heart lay with the persecuted immigrants. Houston rapper Chingo Bling (aka Pedro Herrera III) started out in much the same vein, achieving notoriety with a video for "Taco Shop," a spoof of 50 Cent's "Candy Shop."
In This Issue:
Chingo Bling: Immigrant Hip-Hop
Bruce Springsteen's Magic
Rival Compton Bands Play a Funeral Together
Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett Sabotages the Environment
Nelson George on Kanye West and 50 Cent
Just Exactly Why Do We Need the Music Business?
More Bullshit from Bono
Davey D on Underground Rap in New Orleans
RIAA Lawsuits Generate Counter-Attack
Dave Marsh's Beatles Book
CD and DVD reviews
And much more....
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Music and Healthcare
How Musicians can get Healthcare
How you can help bring about a universal Healthcare System
On November 15, 2004 Rock A Mole Productions (www.rockamole.com) of Los Angeles released Everybody In, Nobody Out, a new film on musicians and health care. more