Air Apparent  The great white hype: Minnesota MC Slug of
Atmosphere.  Slug, the primary rhymesayer behind the Minneapolis
hip-hop duo Atmosphere, is feeling like something of a
prognosticator these days. He predicts that once Christina Ricci
listens to his song "The Bass and the Movement," from his new
disc, God Loves Ugly, she'll be unable to resist his charms. On
the track, he pays the plucky Pumpkin actress this tribute: "All
that matters is the bass and the movement/From the top of the
Fiji to the bottom of Christina Ricci."  "She's going to think
it's hilarious. That's my Father Guido Sarducci prediction,"
says the rap prince of the Twin Cities, laughing into the phone
from somewhere in Los Angeles. "She's going to know me and love
me. She's going to be my übergroupie. She's going to be my
Winona Ryder."  Female fixations are the norm for Slug, aka Sean
Daley. Atmosphere's last record, Lucy Ford/The Atmosphere
EPs,dealt almost exclusively with the MC's problematic
relationships with women -- most notably