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Friday, January 17, 1992
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By ERIC WARD secured t
Editor-in-Chief the band
Hootie and the Blowfish, a four- (1? lhe rec
member rock band from Columbia, "We w
is heading to Los Angeles in away fror
March to record its first album. at the sarr
In the meantime, the band is do- He saic
ing a few shows, including one at be succes
11:30 tonight at Rockafellas'. cording a
Tickets are $6. for fun," 1
Lead guitarist Mark Bryan, 24, , lhal
said the album's name is still un
decided, but it won't have a spc- Three y
cific theme. "We have to wait and playing a
decide what songs are going to go 'ng other I
on it and the cover and all that "We jU:
stuff," Bryan said. playing I
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Bassist Dean Felber, 24, said the sajd ^ey'
band's manager, Henry Newman, $5()?" Fell
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Assistant Carolina! Editor features tl
The Carolina Program Union "It's a
has already set new programs on sion of "I
its agenda for the Spring Semester, tnat snoui
The line of programming starts don't lik<
at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Koger modem,"
Center with Opera Northeast's pro- Richan
duction of "Kiss Me, Kate," Cole York Pos
Porter's acclaimed musical. "A smash
"The show is excellent. It's been and John
playing all over the country," CPU York Dai
graduate assistant Kristin Fourroux sprightlie:
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"Kiss Me, Kale" is a modem re- In othe
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)up heads to L.A. to record
he record deal and that He said the band is just now bchad
a choice of where to coming recognized for its original
ording. music. "It took a while to change
'anted to get ourselves our reputation Irom a cover band
n Columbia and have fun to an original one," Felber said.
le time," Felber said. He said Hootie and the Blowfish
i .u u iv have many influences, among them
I the band s goals arc to i. . u a
r . k .~ ?s the West Coast alternative band
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st, handsomest and most several weeks,
usical imaginable." Also, CPU movies begin next
week in the Russell House Theater
r CPU news, the CPU of- with "Raising Arizona," "Boyz N
the second floor of the the Hood" and "The Decline of
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marketing degree, said the .band is top of our heads at the
not trying to make a statement in We don't try to write a sc
its music. something such as racism.
We're just trying to express Bryan, who has a d
ourselves," he said. "We write ab- broadcast journalism,
out basically whatever is on the "That's pretty much i
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of some of the problems within the black community
that need to be solved. Materialism, alcohol abuse,
drugs and violence are all under fire by Ice Cube.
Ice Cube is a clever lyricist. His attack on N.W.A.
on "No Vaseline" is rather harsh, but funny. "Doing
Dumb Shit" is hilarious as well. Even though I have a
problem with the sexist lyrics in "Covin' Up The
Nappy Dugout," it too is cleverly written.
The thing to remember when you hear this album is
that it is like a book or a movie. It has to be taken as
a whole. If you take out specific lines from it that ap- |^H
pear to be sexist or racist, and then discredit the entire 9|
album, you are being unfair to the artist. Ice Cube
could tame his lyrics, but why should he? He attacks
everybody. Yes, he does say "nigga" and "cracker."
Yes, he is negative a lot of the time, but his aim is BT .
positive. You must also take into account his point of
view.
A recent article in.The Source, a hip-hop magazine,
discusses the album and the politics surrounding it.
One of the writers said something that inspired me'to
write this article. "My entire line on the Cube and the HH
media thing is, where the fuck were you (white me- quick t
dia) when he was talking about killing niggas with the mind fi
Hurry of buckshots?" he said. cause tl
That is such an important question. All of these cri- Whet
tics who arc so quick to attack this album have no- Ice Cut
ihinp m smv ahnni Pnhp.'s mher lvrics. For instance, in and his
"Us," Ice Cube says, "When I do a show to kick some with sc
facts, us blacks don't know how to act/Sometimes I heard ir
believe the hype man/We mess it up ourselves and first alb
blame the white man/But don't point your finger you "nite mu
jigaboo/Take a look at yourself you dumb nigger Ayou."
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Ice Cube's attack is not one-sided. The media seem by you
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it's got to stay fresh and llkc ^rriiis has a very soulful
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The members are graduates of
ears ago the band started ygC and have friendships that go
round campus, perform- back t0 high school. Darrius
sands' music. Rucker, 25, is the vocalist and
st started messing around acoustic guitarist. Rucker's degree
for free beer, and the js jn journalism. Jim Sonefeld, or
s saw us and liked us and Soni, 26, plays drums and has a
d give us free beer plus media arts degree.
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ince of "Kiss Me Kate" on Sunday.
ie music of Cole Porter. house on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Revery
contemporary ver- freshments will be served,
aming of the Shrew,' but "It's for people who are interdn't
scare off people who ested in what CPU is all about and
i Shakespeare. It's very would like to join up," Contemporsaid
Ferroux. ary Sounds Chairman John Chism
:1 Watts Jr. of the New said.
t, described the show as The CPU also will start Tuesday
hit of epic proportions," Night Live in the Golden Spur, brChapman
of the New inging local comcdic talent into the
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moment, pretty close friends so we have si>ng
about milar insights into things."
The band has done shows in
egree in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virgiagreed.
nia, Washington, D.C., Georgia,
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aren't trouble-makers.,
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te for speaking his mind. He is brutally honest,
intelligence is evident. The album hits hard
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for anyone who is seriously into rap music.
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