WILD STYLE: While we’re rappin’, the good...

WILD STYLE: While we’re rappin’, the good news is that the august New York Times has belatedly gotten on the hip-hop bandwagon, with a Sunday piece about rap entering the mainstream (that does sound familiar, doesn’t it?). To prove his point, the Times scribe quoted a verse from Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” where the Prince’s mom accompanies him on an ill-fated shopping spree. According to the Times, Prince says: “She lost her mind and did the ultimate, I asked for Adidas and she bought me Zitz!” Sorry guys--but that’s Zips! (Didn’t anyone at the Times ever buy cheap sneakers when they were kids?). . . . What’s the best-priced compact disc around? Our candidate is Restless Records’ unique live CD-only series, which the local label inaugurated earlier this year with “Live” by the Smithereens. The performance series is list-priced at $9.98 and continues this week with “Live” by T.S.O.L., taped earlier this year at the Coach House. Due up next: live CD gigs from Devo, the Surf Punks, the Dream Syndicate and the Dickies. . . . And Gary Myrick (remember the Figures?) has a new band that’ll be at the Club Lingerie Thursday night. The new name? Gary Myrick & the Torture Twins.