Is there a disk doctor in the house? To protect albums-in-progress from pirates, hip hoppers have taken to toting their music from studio to studio on portable hard drives. Over the summer, Roc-a-Fella's Juelz Santana was distressed to learn that his 200-Gbyte drive, which contained all the ProTools files for his new CD, What the Game's Been Missing, was kaput. The problem? For more than a year, Juelz had kept his machine on 24éhours a day, causing it to overheat. "There's no way I would have remembered all those rhymes," said the rapper, who hadn't backed up his files in eight months. It took $10,000 and two weeks for a repair shop to salvage the recording. Like data storage, rap bravado has limits. "If it didn't work, I woulda cried," Santana said. "No, seriously. I woulda cried."
- Jon Caramanica
A hard drive crash almost made rapper Juelz Santana cry.
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