The Source Magazine – July 2001 (2001 Summer Music Preview Issue)

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The Source rolls into summer 2001 with its annual Summer Music Preview, asking whether the platinum players can drop albums hotter than July. The montage cover gathers the season's biggest names, with DMX, Snoop and Tha Eastsidaz, Nelly and the St. Lunatics, OutKast and the Dungeon Family, Puffy's Bad Boy team, Eminem and D12, Jay-Z and the Roc, and Master P and Lil Romeo all previewed inside. Beyond the music, the issue reports on black Hollywood flexing its muscle, Jadakiss chasing the hustle, and Jay-Z's run-ins with the law, rounding out one of the label's most stacked summer editions.