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ft Puff Daddy tries SI DEREK K. SCOTT Staff Writer NO WAY OUT Puff Daddy & the Family W (Bad Boy) ! jg i/j (out of five stars) Garbage should be defined as No Way pP ^ Out by Puff Daddy & The Family, sim- P w ply because the joint stanKs. Puffys horrible perpetration of the hip-hop culture has gone too far. If you're ' looking for original beats and dope MC's, v > don't pick up a copy of this mediocre project that will just upset the listener song title after song.? WC, And after being a personal victim of Putty's hip-hop brutality, I wondered what would be worse?a freestyle session with 1 Rampage, Master P, and Puff Daddy, or inch being forced to watch the USC football You' 0 team attempt to play on the same field Tho; with the Florida Gators. Bro\ Puff Daddy is known in the business out> as Mr. Billboard, producing multi-plat- J inum hits for artists such as the Notori- Nob ous B.I.G., New Edition, SWV and Mari- turi ah Carey, not as an MC. and - . r?r? With lines like, im the macaroni with ' the cheese" on the song "Been Around SP? The World," featuring his version of "boy wonder," Mase, and a hook that samples is th ^ Lisa Stansfield's early Ws hit of the same per< IS The Pe g Between I milano _ J I IDA! 1m **4 611 Hards m http://.ww mi.,. ^M ?n?-wignwwwfflM.iiaei8Ki Get it 3 Time The Omic is now? ? APPLICANTS NEED TO Exemplary Chai 60 hours i -GPAof 3.0 At least one sen: [USICFC : to rap on deb , a comparison with other MCs like , Mack 10, and Spearhead would be Ba b appropriate compared to "real" MCs (Hi Black Thought, Redman and Rakim. Bu In Guest appearances on No Way Out, r? iding LiT Kim on "Don't Stop What . re Doing," Ginuwine, Twista and Carl ^ mas on "Is This the End?" and Foxy vn on "Friend," should have been left wa fay Z's verse on "Young G's," the ^ jrious B.LG.'s verse on "Victory" feang the hook done by Busta Rhymes, the verses by newcomer Black Rob the [ Love You Baby," are the only bright of 1 s on this project. a n It's All About the Benjamins (Remix)" te hottest joint, but as Puffy does 99 No :ent of the production, you can't rfeet Bale Art and S g(^fcsa2 n ttraat 25' w.barafeeteomfc !S A Week. rnn flail" IUII Ublll jcceptin HAVE: acter Application I 5pm Septembe tester at USC ETC TO THF MAS ut CD Morrisse, %/ help wonder if ~~~~~ some assistance from mega-dope [n^the hi*ht MARIO ONA Staff Wri cufture6 1P ?P MALADJUSTED Morr MmHl Family' featuring In Steven Patrick M< Muse, The Lox solo effort, he's earnec and Black Rob. Master's Degree in self .^^1% will be multi-plat- pity and everything else k]diT * hium. pie horribly depressed. But, when Collectively contras rJC- v compared on the bum, Maladjusted, to 1 : ' ?" v ^ basis of "skills," the past, it seems a st there's no way from the more energetic, d Boy can compare with Boot Camp mar (energetic for Mc elter Skelter, Cocoa Brovaz, O.G.C., Apparently, his lonj ckshot, etc.), Wu-Tang (Method Man, brought on by lis ex-Sm ostface, RZA, etc.), or even The Firm only sunk bim into the is, AZ, Foxy Brown and Nature), turn- siori( but has made bim [ Bad Boy's platinum status to multi- This notion is apparen iminum. Come in the End." After hearing No Way Out, I just Rather than singi nted to get out and get a shot of real speaks, while ominous \ )-hop. When you need an R&B pro- create tension and dran cer, Puff Daddy is the answer. mates, "You pleaded a However, when it comes to gripping you think you've won ! steel and blessing a packed house lull come/to you in the end. xwt and blunted "heads," Puffy's still In ^ ?M0re You Igr aajor question. er j Get"-sounding first s Do yourself a favor and don't pick up ters," Moz seems to be Way Out. the way people have cril even tried to help him o since I %I6M%6? | COED : fe I . SUNDA jg H 12:00 PN ra Where: & 1 > 1 $15.00 E . j?| irnirirvin^iiiniiiiii 9 4 Persor a ?f 1 ferr i-8488 1 irt.eem \LJttlllU44UV ??i a Kappa Socii g application leadline r 19,1997 H i I W'v _ _ i Site 1SES 7/ v releases new album <Aj adjustment. He sings, "So, the choice I I have made/may seem strange to / y you/but who asked you anyway?" G55E f J Ironically, the most up-beat, pop-sounding song on the album is the darkest lyri0^ cal song, "Satan Rejected My Soul." Hopelessly looking for "somewhere else to go," Albei noBH Moz finds that even "Satan rejected [his] Room soul." As Morrissey points out, "As low as he (Satan) goes/he never quite goes . Sour this low." ? As one can tell by some of the lyrics, a ?sey (Mercury) Morrissey seems to be somewhat more (Myrtle depressed and bitter. For Moz fans it comes as no surprise. , Wid( Drrissey's seventh What may be a surprise is that lfs one Specia 1 a long-awaited ?fhis best efforts since 1992*3 catchy, Your pa destruction, self- Arsenal. } that makes peo- # Hie album has diverse sounding songs. # Fion Moz fans will be glad to hear their prince c0ie?e ting his latest al- ?f sadness has not jumped on the electric lis solo efforts in bandwagon. # Eltoi ep down in hope The sound of Maladjusted seems al- ? ,. Southpaw Gram- most like a compilation of sounds from 0 eu irrissey, that is), previous works. I drawn-out case They jump around from the faster rrg ith mates has not and catchy, like "Alma Matters," "Am- climax of depres- . munition," and "Satan Rejected My Soul," angry and bitter, to the piano bar sounding, "Trouble Loves msDl t in "Sorrow Will Me," to the acoustic introductory, "Papa Enter; Jade," to the finally dramatic, "Ambitious Pillshm ng his pain, he Outsiders," and "Maladjusted." and y0i iolins and strings Maladjusted is not for everyone. The rules, c ta. He tells his ex- depressed and glum may*benefit from Or pick nd squealed/and Moz's latest effort. They might feel con- details r /but sorrow will soled by Morrissey's self-imposed, con- www.h fessional eternal depression. tore Me, The Clos- In summary, it's a wonderfully di- Open ? ingle, "Alma Mat- verse album as far as the music is con- R , defensive about cerned. 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