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Vibe
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Sales Rank: 281
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List Price: $47.88
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Product Review
Slicker and more uptown than competitors The Source and XXL, Vibe covers hip-hop culture in its many forms. The primary focus, of course, is music, but urban fashion also receives lavish treatment, and each issue contains a least a dash of movies, technology, sports, and politics. Celebrities tend to dominate its well-photographed and well-designed pages, but there's also room for more substantive fare (such as a touching report on "chickenheads"--rap-world groupies--who deserve better than they get from their often-abusive lovers). Covering a culture that is frequently misogynistic and homophobic, Vibe is both women- and gay-friendly, and surprisingly broad in its interpretation of who's cool enough for hip-hop: Elton John (for his Grammy duet with Eminem), maverick senator Jim Jeffords, and Seattle Mariners baseball star Ichiro Suzuki. --Keith Moerer
Product Description
Vibe, the nation's leading hip-hop magazine, drops the hottest in music, fashion, sports, art, technology and entertainment every month. Connect yourself to the beat of the street and stay one up on urban scenes across the county - NYC, D.C, Chi-town, L.A., Houston, Atlanta, and Miami - from wherever you are.
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Frankly, as another reviewer said, the magazine was doper (and larger in size, I might add) back in the early '90's. And ever since I read this, I noticed a few things: they hate MTV, they love BET, they hate Nas and his affiliates, they LOVE Jay-Z. The real reason to run and buy this magazine is for the "20 Questions", but back in the '90s all of the questions were funny. Now, only one or two of them are funny while the rest don't even make sense. Not to mention that they only put artists on the cover who went multiplatinum (i.e., Jay-Z never made the cover until 1998). But I still read the magazine for its START section that interviews up-and-coming acts and for the fact that it distances itself from other urban magazines by featuring non-hiphop artists like No Doubt and Lenny Kravitz. The Revolution sections are okay, but truthfully, their reviewers dislike anything that isn't Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, or Mary J. Blige.
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