Hip-hop gets rich, Rock refuses to die tryin'
 
WINNERS
 
Top Album: OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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Top Single: OutKast
"Hey Ya!"

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ESSAYS
  Reasons to Bother
Finding Our Grooves in the Year the Democrats Discovered Hip-Hop
By Robert Christgau
 
The New Frontier
Playboys of the Southwestern World Thrive on Certainty
By Joshua Clover
 
COMMENTS
  Top Ten Plus
Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club
 
On Da Corner Worldwide
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
 
A Little Faster This Time
"I'm Never Wrong" Vs. "This Is What I'm Good At"
 
100 Hottest Hotties
Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet
 
Pebbles at the Palace
Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King
 
A Critic's Job at Work
 
The Personals
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