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Travis McCoy — 6-foot-5, covered in tattoos, plugs in his ears, barbell through his septum — strolled up to the CBS Broadcast Center on the West Side of Manhattan last Wednesday to tape an appearance on BET’s “Rap City.” For the few young people waiting in line outside the building to be in the audience at another show’s taping, it was a curious sighting — Mr. McCoy is a rapper, but he fronts a gold-record-selling rock band — and they approached him tentatively, taking time to warm up to him...MORE ON NYTIMES