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Tribe’s Vibe with the Westside Set to Rock the House
By Mark Allwood
Assistant A&E Editor
Friday, October 18, A Tribe
Called Quest, along with Ice
Cube, will perform in the new
Morehouse Olympic Arena.
Both groups are currently
riding off the success of phat
new music. Ice Cube, with
WC (of the Madd Circle) and
Mack 10, has formed the
vicious Westside Connection
and is expected to drop an
album any minute now. A
Tribe Called Quest just
recently released their fourth
LP, "Beats, Rhymes and Life",
which is destined to become
yet another hip-hop classic for
the trio (minus Jarobi) from
Queens, NY. Tribe's stop at
Morehouse is part of a college
tour which will bring the
group up and down the east
coast for about a month.
Because the tour is geared
towards constantly struggling,
broke
students like
us, tickets
will be
substantially
lower than
most
concerts.
With
this year's
homecoming,
Morehouse brings in two of
the hottest acts from the east
and left coasts. There is no
revealing if Ice Cube will bring
the rest of Westside
Connection with him to the
ATL. But rest assured, the self-
proclaimed don of the
westside has enough hits
under his own belt to
Do not be surprised if anyone from the
newly-reinstated Native Tongues
makes an appearance as well.
sufficiently rock a
crowd. From
"Steady Mobbin'"
to last year's hit
"Friday", Cube
will have enough
material to keep
even the most
uptight heads
happy. As for
Quest, their shows
can always be
surprising.
Consequence, a
new ill kid featured
on "Beats, Rhymes
and Life", will
hopefully bless us
with his presence.
Do not be
surprised if anyone
from the newly-
reinstated Native
Tongues makes an Christian Lantry/Jive Records
appearance as well. The crew from Queens marauds through life, with rhymes and beats that
To find out you will get low ends instinctively travelling.
just have to see for
yourself and buy a ticket. It
will be worth what little
money you have to spend!
Creative Movement Brothers: "Drop'pin' It at Homecoming 1996
By Vernando Reuben
Associate Editor
Live. Right from the
patchwork living room rug of
their immodestly furnished
Buckhead apartment, we have
Horace and Yusef Davis, co
producers, co-directors,
entertainment coordinators,
brothers, and business
partners in "Da
Drop." "Da Drop," not
to be mistaken with
any of the other
fashion shows
appearing this month,
is, in Horace's
estimation, anything
but simple; "an
entertainment
extravaganza."
"Da Drop"
incorporates all the
theatrical elements of a
classic suspense, and then
some. It includes mad drama,
explosive action, intrigue, and
if that isn't enough, musical
acrobatics. Yes, I'm talkng,
backflips and ery'thing short
of a soundtrack. With a
massive ad campaign
surrounding the production,
you by now have heard or read
that Jay-Z is slated to perform.
Shhh! That's not a rumor, just
one minor aspect of the show,
nothing to make any noise
about.
Just what are we doing
here anyway? Definitely not
interviewing. Horace is on the
phone taking care of whatever
business surrounding his
numerous artisistic endeavors;
Yusef, who was also blessed
with asthetic genetics, is also
diligently at work on some
manianical, fantastically
abstract cocoction on paper
(that, when finished, will no
doubt, convey some
indecipherable message); and
me, I'm absorbing space and
taking notes. The rest of CMB
is not present.
Collectively, we're feeding
our libidinal hunger via a
sharp 27" tel-a-lie box-view of
MTV's alternative soul, where,
through her Soundgarden, we
can try Smashing Pumpkins
alongside the Wallflowers.
The point? Their 5 minute
bites into alternative surreality
is indicative of their own
creative diversity as well as
their voracious appitietes in
the consumption of their
genre, whatever they decide it
to be. These core members of
Creative Movement Brothers
(CMB) are just that, innovators
moving kinetically with never
too much creative
energy.
Conceptually, "Da
Drop" takes us beyond
the limits of the Euro-
inflated Paris-
emulating ghetto
approach at a fashion
show. "We're not trying
to to do what is [and
will be] traditionally
done . . . That's why
we've assembled a live
cast of African
American
designers,"suggests Yusef.
"Da Drop" is urban prozac
for the acedemically deranged.
It is also a reflection of our
culturally unique sense of
style and a celebration of our
inexplicable (though maybe a
survival skill) death-defying
determination to look "jiggy"
no matter what.
According to Yusef, "The
Drop is everything you might
do in a weekend. You '11
probably hit the mall (so we
got fashion); girls tryin' to see
guys; guys checkin' out girls
(we got models); you may
wanna see a movie (we got
theatrics); and you'll definitely
be trying to get your groove on
later that evening (we got DJ
Kid Kapri)."
But, please. Forget all the
hoo rah rah. Disregard all the
hype. Just be there on October
20th. You be the judge. What
else do you have to do on a
Sunday night?
Get on the Bus
Continued from page 18
aims to document it all; and the angry son forced to come
to terms with his absent father.
In close quarters, the men confront tense issues. Who
really serves the community, a biracial cop who sees justice
in black and white, or a reformed Muslim who has
experienced the gray areas firsthand? What "American
dream" feeds an actor's avarice and defers an old man's
dream? Is Farrakhan "the only free Black man in
America," or a bigot? Why do these men march without
the sisters? Is a "strong, GAY Black man" a joke, or
someone to respect?
These serious questions are tempered by vivid images
and absorbing emotions. Viewers are drawn in with
breathtaking cinematography. Brilliant dialogue and roles
infused with human complexity mirror the actual
experience of the march. Moviegoers will see themselves
or someone they know in Ossie Davis, Gabriel Casseus,
Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Andre Braugher and perhaps even
Isaiah Washington. Moving introduction / testimonials,
fears of a "holoclipsical" march, the pride at shocking
the white media by convening peacefully, the momentous
reality of literally being among a million "brothers"- these
are all real, cherished memories to march participants who
will see the film. If you weren't there, this movie is the
next best thing.