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Article: Malveaux At Large: Is Gangsta Rap A Ladder From The Hood To
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- The Sun Reporter
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- March 16, 1994
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Julianne Malveaux
Sun Reporter, The
03-16-1994
Malveaux At Large: Is Gangsta Rap A Ladder From The Hood To. Hollywood?
The record is called "187, He Wrote." (187 is the California penal code for murder -- cute, right?). The artist is a 23-year-old named Spice 1. His record has gone gold, he says he next one will go platinum, and he says that rap has saved his life. Before he was rapping he was drifting and maybe drugging. Now, he sports a huge gold ring on each hand, drives a "brand new Jeep Cherokee," and says he makes more money than anyone he was in school with, even the teachers.
I met Bro. Spice, and his manager, Chazz, on Speaker Willie Brown's new talk show that is produced out of ...