How the DMV and Virginia Beach made rap safe (and profitable!) for eccentrics

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How the DMV and Virginia Beach made rap safe (and profitable!) for eccentrics
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If Virginia Beach came to define the new millennium zeitgeist, the rap of the nation's capital — a three-hour drive away, close enough to share a musical lineage — was slower to catch on.

" into alien transmissions. In Missy, he found the perfect partner — a bubbly performer with an elastic voice, an ear for the crags in his beats and an eye for the eccentric. She was the tongue-wagging, trash bag-wearing caricature at the center of a Hype Williams fisheye, the freaky, neck-extending exhibitionist, unconventional and effortlessly cool.

After working with Teddy Riley on Wreckx-n-Effect's 1992 hit"Rump Shaker" while still in school, The Neptunes broke through big with the Mase single"Lookin' at Me" in 1998. The group's approach was simpler than Timbaland's.

If Virginia Beach came to define the new millennium zeitgeist, the rap of the nation's capital — a three-hour drive away, close enough to share a musical lineage — was slower to catch on. Even within the District proper there seemed to be less of a push for rap, perhaps because it already had its own sound: Washington, D.C.,

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