Playboy Jazz & Rock Poll 2000

Playboy Jazz & Rock Poll 2000This year in music was hardly ho-hum. Popular music in 2000 was a hybrid of belly-jeweled teen sensations, boy-toy bands, old-fart reunion tours, cutie-pie country, postmodern blues and rap dramatics. Digital distribution through Napster and MP3 made the world smaller. Musical genres both meshed and clashed; some styles were new and others were rehashed.Cultural and musical counterpoints created the biggest sparks in rap. On "The Marshall Mathers LP," Emine...