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Comedian and film star Whoopi Goldberg will appear at the Col
iseum this Friday night at 8 p.m. The show is being sponsored
by University Union. Tickets are available at the Tate Center
Cashiers Window, $8 students, $16 general public.
New rap is warfare, not art
By DAVID WILLIAMS and NOEL
MURRAY
Contributing Writers
One of the negative side effects
of playing music that glorifies a
criminal lifestyle is that the artist
may find himself in a situation
that reflects that lifestyle. With the
recent release of records by both
NWA and former NWA member Ice
Cube, the war of words these two
have been waging via the media
has escalated to a dangerous level.
Welcome to the rap wars of Com
pton, Calif., 1990.
Not too long ago, Eazy-E of NWA
(that’s Niggas’ With Attitude, yaTl)
was pestering Ice Cube to write ly
rics for him and to join his band.
The result of that collaboration
was last year’s “Straight Outta
Compton,” a blistering rap attack
noteworthy for its gangsta attitude
and the notorious hit “F-k Tha Po
lice.”
When Ice Cube failed to see any
money from this collaboration,
however, he decided to make a
split. Now, Priority records has re
leased both Ice Cube’s album
“AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted” and
NWA’s mini-album ‘TOO Miles and
■ ALBUM REVIEW
Running.” Followers of rap every
where want to know — can Ice
Cube and Eazy-E do on their own
what they did together?
The answer is yeah, but who
cares?
Neither NWA nor Ice Cube have
managed to put together anything
terribly interesting or revolu
tionary. On both records, the music
is a standard hardcore rap mix,
though a little too slow to be in
volving. The lyrics are angry,
mildly shocking crime rhymes. Un
fortunately, these pictures of
inner-city life aren’t what’3 so
shocking. Both NWA and Ice Cube
have been depending on the use (or
abuse) of obscenities to offend PTA
members everywhere.
However, there are a few
standout songs. The title track on
NWA’s EP really connects, as does
“Real Niggaz.” Ice Cube’s
“Gangsta’s Fairytale” and “Endan
gered Species (Tales from the
Darkside)” both contain potent sto
rylines. Both albums are flat or
worse. NWA’s production work is
heavy-handed and unimpressive.
Ice Cube had the advantage of help
from Hank and Keith Shocklee and
Eric “Vietnam” Sadler (who pro
duces Public Enemy), but this disc
still should have been better.
Making matters even worse,
both of these acts degrade women
whenever possible. Ice Cube’s “You
Can’t Fade Me," in which he re
sponds to his lover’s pregnancy
with “I shoulda kicked the (her) in
the tummy,” is extremely repug
nant, and I won’t even touch the ju
venile oral sex fantasy on NWA’s
“Just Don’t Bite It.”
In “It’s A Man’s World,” a rap ar
gument between Ice Cube ana Yo-
Yo (a female member of his Lench
Mob) tries to contradict his sexist
statements. The song ends with
IceCube admitting that all women
aren’t sluts or sex tools but it’s too
little too late.
This is not funny and it’s not
smart, just as the verbal war the
two camps are waging through the
media is not smart. If hip-hop as a
genre is going to survive, the art
ists are going to have to get past
this in-fighting.
NWA: Their new release may not be as revolutionary as they’d hoped.
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Georgia artist comes home
A collection of works by widely-
recognized New York painter
Benny Andrews is on exhibit for
the first time Oct. 1 - Oct. 31 in
the Tate Student Center gallery.
Andrews, a 59-year-old native
of Madison, Ga., has works in the
permanent, collections of mu
seums across the country — in
cluding The Museum of Modern
Art in New York City, The De
troit Institute of Art and The
High Museum in Atlanta.
The figurative pieces showing
at the Tate gallery are the begin
nings of his “America” series.
They depict the diversity of
American life, ranging from posi
tive expressions of human spirit
to the terror of war, in paintings
such as “K Mart Lady” and “De-
migogue.”
“It’s going to be America with
all its beauty and all of its warts,”
Andrews said.
While working and teaching at
Queens College, Andrews makes
time to travel to all of his shows
and lecture at universities
around the country. He leaves
the city each year to work for a
few months in the rural quiet of
his house outside Athens.
The Tate gallery show, spon
sored by the Visual Arts division
of University Union, is one of five
exhibitions of Andrews’ work now
showing around the country —in
cluding a 30-year retrospective of
his work in Chicago, an exhibit of
his paintings and collages in De
troit, a solo show at Columbus
College and a two-man exhibit in
Memphis with his father, folk
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‘‘The Soil”: Is a piece in Andrews’ ‘‘America” series.
— Marla Edwards
New publication offers alternative
By NOEL MURRAY
Entertainment Writer
If you’ve happened by a news
stand lately, you’ve probably seen
a new publication sitting alongside
the stacks of Banner-Heralds, Con
stitutions, Red & Blacks and Flag
poles. Its name is “Expressions,”
and its founders are attempting to
put an African-American spin on
the news in Athens.
‘There’s never been a black
newspaper or magazine published
in Athens,” said Ken Cook, editor-
in-chief of “Expressions.” ‘You
know, you’ve got the Banner-
Herald and Classic City Live, but
sometimes they don’t cover every
thing the black community needs
to know.”
The first issue of “Expressions”
contains articles on subjects such
as black relationships, University
minority student services, Spike
Lee and Janet Jackson.
“We write about what we think
is interesting,” Cook said. “We’re
going to try to be more innovative
in upcoming issues as far as stories
and submissions. We’re hoping to
increase the creativity and cover a
lot of different aspects of the black
community.”
Cook said he has contacted the
UGA chapter of the National Asso
ciation of Black Journalists and is
very excited about working with
them. In addition, he has printed
an ad in the magazine, soliciting
submissions. He said he’d like to
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“We’re really pleased with how
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Although the publications here
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white, male point of view. Because
this is the case, publications, like
“Expressions,” that support a mi
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Cook said,“I think that, because
of the alternative music scene and
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great place to start something like
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