THURSDAY,AUG.23,2001
ENTERTAINMENT
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 9B
OutKast anything but at awards
The Associated Press
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Hip hop duo OutKast and newcomer Nelly bested some of the top rap artists in the industry at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards on Monday night.
OutKast snagged best artist of the year by a group and best live performer of the year, while Nelly took home best new artist of the year and best album for his CD Country Grammar.
"Hopefully I can keep doing what I am doing and people will keep accepting me for what I'm doing because that's just me," said Nelly, whose album also was nominated for two Grammu Awards.
Eminem won video of the year for "Stan," a song about a demented fan driven over the edge by his hero's
lack of response. He performed the song "Purple Hills" with his group D-12.
Rapper Ja Rule, who collected the single of the year award for "Put It On Me," which featured artist Lil' Mo, called the Source honors "the award" for rappers.
The Neptunes won the producer of the year and R&B artist of the year went to R. Kelly, known for a remix of his hit song "Fiesta," featuring artist Iav-Z.
"This is our culture, our music, our peers," he said.
Jay-Z, known for his songs "Big Pimpin"," featuring UGK, and "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)," and his album "Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter," won solo artist of the year.
"This is bigger than I can imagine," said Scarface.
Rapper Scarface defeated
OutKast — Andre 3000 and Big Boi — are known for their hits "Ms. Jackson" and their Grammy-nominated "Rosa Parks." Their latest album, the multi-platinum Stankonia, is their biggest one to date.
Eminem, Jay-Z and Prodigy for lyricist of the year.
Of the evening's performances, the live goat, cow and chickens brought on stage by Nelly and the St. Lunatics, who performed "Midwest Swing", was one of the most colorful.
LL Cool J, a longtime rap artist, producer and actor, received a Lifetime Achievement award and The Hip-Hop Image Award was presented to hip-hop mogul Master P.
Thousands of hip-hop fans joined
the genre's top artists for the third annual awards show at the Jackie Gleason Theater. Some artists — including the redhead Eve and Ludacris — ran out to greet the starrazers.
This is the first year that the awards, put on by The Source Magazine, were held in Miami.
Fights broke out during last year's show, held in Pasadena, Calif. It was canceled after only three performances and a handful of awards were announced because of fights in the audience.
This year's award show will air on UPN on Aug.28.
Beat writer on ball, not to mention road
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The New York Public Library announced Tuesday that it had acquired the literary and personal archives of Kerouac, who died in 1969. The archives, available to scholars within the next few years, contain thousands of items, including diaries, letters, stories, notebooks and manuscripts for On the Road and other novels.
Most unusual is a labyrinthine fantasy baseball game Kerouac created as a kid growing up in Lowell,
Mass., and referred to in his writings.
"This should give you an idea of the breadth, and the richness, of his imaginary life," said Isaac Gewirtz a curator of the library.
If On the Road wasn't the Great American Novel, then Kerouac can make a fair claim to the Great American Fantasy Baseball League. Using different colors of paper and cards, Kerouac invented a six-tem team league more complicated than Strat-O-Matic and other popular games.
He not only recruited imaginary figures, but also historic ones such as Pancho Villa and Lou Gehrig.
"Writers create vast kingdoms for themselves to control and to let their imagination run loose," said Ann Douglas, a professor of American studies at Columbia University who has written often about the Beats.
"Think of William Faulkner and his Yoknapatwa county. Think of Thomas De Quinney and his brother making up whole worlds of imaginary inhabitants who were at war with each other. Writers like to be gods of worlds where great dramas are played out."
Kerouac also published a newsletter and produced a broadsheet in which he compiled standings and league leaders and offered summaries of the day's games.
There are few specific instructions, but the game apparently called for marbles, toothpicks and white-rubber erasers to be thrown against a target some 40 feet away.
The son of French Canadians, Kerouac was born in Lowell in 1922. He played baseball and football as a child and was a star athlete in high school. In the 1940s, he helped found the "Beat" movement with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, whom he met in New York City.
Douglas said that Kerouac didn't speak English fluently until his teens and considers his fantasy league a classic immigrant experience, using baseball to access American culture.
Top 5 Lists
TELEVISION
1. "Wo Wants to Be a Millionaire - Tuesday," NC
2. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Sunday," ABC.
4. "Law & Order," NBC.
3. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Thursday," ARC.
(From Nielsen Media Research)
FILMS
1. "American Pie 2," Universal.
2. "Rush Hour 2," New Line.
3. "Rat Race," Paramount.
4. "The Others," Miramax.
5. "The Princess Diaries," Disney.
(From Exhibitor Relations Co.)
HOT FIVE
1. "Fallin'." Alicia Keys. J.
2. "I'm Real," Jennifer Lopez (feat. Ja Rule).
Fairly.
3. "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," Eve (eave, Gwen
Stefanl), Ruff Rdvers.
4. "Hit 'Em Up Style (Ooops!)," Blu Cantrell, Red Zone.
5. "U Remind Me," Usher. Arista.
(From Billboard magazine)
ALBUMS
2. "Celebrity," "N Sync, Jive."
1. "Now 7." Various Artists.
EMU/Universal/Sony/Zomba/Virgin.
2. "Celebrity," by Lynne DiCaprio.
3. "Eternal," the Isley Brothers (feat. Ronald
4. "8701." Usher. Arista.
Isley AKA Mr. Biggs). DreamWorks.
5. "Kiss The Game Goodbye," Judakiss. Ruff
Ryders/Interscope.
(From Billboard magazine)
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