Memories of the Sneakers Shoot

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Memories of the Sneakers Shoot

I remember the day my agent called and told me he was sending me a new script. I had just landed several movies in a row, and agents believe in one thing more than luck—momentum. He wanted to keep it rolling.

In 1992 Arrested Development looked like the future of hip-hop, but the future had other plans

Music: Hip-Hop And You Do Stop: In 1992 Arrested Development looked like the future of hip-hop, but the future had other plans


Hip-Hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden-age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in the genre’s development, beginning with 1988 and concluding with 2000.

1992 witnessed the release of a number of landmark albums. It was the year of Dr. Dre’s The Chronic but also of Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s Mecca And The Soul Brother, The Pharcyde’s Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, Gang Starr’s Daily Operation, Eric B. & Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique, Redman’s Whut? Thee Album, Ice Cube’s The Predator, and Common’s Can I Borrow A Dollar? That’s a whole lot of awesomeness for any single year, and that’s just in hip-hop.
So what incontrovertible masterpiece topped the prestigious Village Voice ...

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“I got a beep from Kim”: 24 pop-culture windows into the world of 1992

Inventory: “I got a beep from Kim”: 24 pop-culture windows into the world of 1992






1. Singles accidentally mythologizes Seattle just as the rest of the world became obsessed with itThough Nirvana’s Nevermind was released in 1991, it didn’t actually hit the top of the Billboard charts until January of 1992. The album’s ascendance also signaled the rise of grunge to national recognition, even though the style of music had been percolating in the Pacific Northwest since the mid-’80s. Though many albums of the era captured the scene’s sound, no movie captured—or attempted to capture, at least—the scene’s romantic foibles like Cameron Crowe’s Singles. Set in Seattle, grunge capital of the world, the movie interweaves the love lives of residents in an apartment building with the music of Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden. (The faux-band in the movie, Citizen Dick, even features members of Pearl Jam.) Though the movie itself wasn’t a smash ...

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