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- <text id=89TT1787>
- <title>
- July 10, 1989: Good Enough To Rap
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 69
- Good Enough to Rap
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Wholesome is one word the New Kids On The Block don't mind.
- The Boston lads who sing a mix of soul and rap -- Donnie
- Wahlberg, 18, Danny Wood, 19, Joe McIntyre, 16, and brothers
- Jon, 19, and Jordan Knight, 18 -- have a cool-but-clean image
- that works. The Kids have no fewer than three Top Ten hits from
- their LP Hangin' Tough, which has sold more than 2 million
- copies. They're not to be confused with another group of
- goody-goodies. "We're not like the Osmonds," says Wahlberg. "We
- grew up around drugs and violence. We had to make a decision not
- to go in that direction."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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