R&B

July, 1999

If you think pop music today--dominated by boy groups and dance drivel--lacks creativity, you ought to listen to hip-hop. This is its golden age, as three excellent albums demonstrate. Designed to turn teenagers on while driving their parents nuts, The Slim Shady LP (Interscope), by Dr. Dre's white protégé Eminem, recalls the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill in its hilarity and button-pushing of-fensiveness. Although it couldn't warn more explicitly against trying its scenarios at home, these do in...