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Sunday, April The Washington Post D2 30, 2006 M1 The Style Invitational

THIS WEEK’S CONTEST THE ALSO-RANS REPORT FROM Kennebunkport + Hemingway’s Key = The Son Also Rises WEEK 656 Achilles of Troy + Tug o’War and name the foal Heel and Tow (Mark Eckenwiler; Sue Lin Chong, Baltimore) Week 660: Foaling (Mark Eckenwiler) As always, there were tons + Tiznow or Never = Priam Time (Laura Bennett Peterson, Ice N Lemon + Get Off the Sugar = DiabeTeas (Carol June of clever entries and tons Washington) Hooker, Landover Hills) Down: The Next of duplication. Most + Lightning Romance = Love Me Tendon (Russell Beland, + Too Much Bling = Mr. Tea (Ernie Staples, Silver Spring) common theme: Springfield) Little Genius + He’s Got Grit = He’s Got Trig (Rich Muenchow) Generation “Brokeback” everything. + Yes He’s the Man = Heel Do (Roy Ashley, Washington) Among other nice but too + Doc Cheney = Heel Thyself (Stephen Dudzik, Olney; Lightning Romance + Big Mistake = Thunder Clap (Mark frequent entries: Brendan Beary, Great Mills) Eckenwiler) “Racketeer + Up an Octave + El Chile Dog = Heel! (Jeff Brechlin, Eagan, Minn.) Lawyer Ron + Press Gently = Legal Tender (Mark Eckenwiler) = Tony Soprano”; Americanrevolution + Morethanamouthful = 17769 (Beth Last Gran Standing + Itsallboutthechase = “Kennebunkport + Press Morgan, Palo Alto, Calif.) Gently = Maine Squeeze”; AllAboutTheChaise (Jon Reiser, Hilton, N.Y.) and “A Big Mistake + Up Art Museum + Master of Disaster = MoMA Gaddafi (Stephen Malameeze + Morethanamouthful = Mammareeze (Tom an Octave = Bris Miss.” Dudzik) Witte) Note: As thorough and + Laptop Computer = Louvred Windows (Stephen Dudzik) systematic as she is, the + Morethanamouthful = Guggenheimlich (Chris Doyle) Music From Heaven + A Big To’Do = Fran’s List (Russell Beland) Empress concedes the + Tug o’War = Venus De Milo (Laurel Gainor, Great Falls) + He’s Got Grit = Celestial Hominy (Seth Brown, North remote possibility that + Rob ’Em Blind = TakeTheMonetAndRun (Chris Doyle) Adams, Mass.) someone out there sent the + Laptop Computer = Framer in the Dell (Harvey Smith, Press Gently + Sayhellotolarry = L King Live (Russell Beland) same entry as one of those McLean) below but was not Racketeer + I Believe in Me = Confidence Game (Russell Circle the World + Express News = Phileas Blog (Brian Barrett, Beland, Chris Doyle) credited. If this has ; Greg Pearson, Arlington) BY BOB STAAKE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST happened to you, please Refinery + Crossword = Crude Remark (Stephen Dudzik) change your name to the Bob and John + With a City = Denver (Barbara Turner, Takoma + Flashy Bull = Oil of Olé (Elden Carnahan; Chris Doyle; Sam s usual, our 11th (!!) annual breed-the-Derby- one mentioned below so Park) Laudenslager, Burke) nominees contest drew an enormous stampede that the credit will be Confederate + Up an Octave = Treble Yell (Chris Doyle) + Devil’s Concierge = Phillips 666 (Chris Doyle) Aof entries — thousands and thousands. In fact, it correct. Thank you. + Record = 0-1 (Elden Carnahan, Laurel) Showing Up + Big Mistake = Ron at Nicole’s (Brad Alexander) was the largest response that the Empress has had to contend with so far in her 121-week reign; she is only Breed Doc Cheney with Bluegrass Cat + Totally Gone = Flatt Broke (Paul Burnham, Sorcerer’s Stone + El Chile Dog = Harry Pooter (Ned Bent, Oak now beginning to lift her battered self from the dirt, 5 Tug o’War and name Gainesville) Hill) the foal Student Deferment dust off her silks and . . . well, they always say you Crossword + Tug O’War = Buy Two Papers (David Franks, Starbucks Day + Up an Octave = Higher Grounds (Harvey (Arlee C. Green, Newington) should get right back on the horse. So, clearly still a bit Wichita) Smith) logy, she decided to take up Horse Name Obsessive A Giant Valentine + + Doc Cheney = One Down (Dave Brewer, Shoreline, Wash.; Loser Russell Beland on a suggestion to “breed” any Sweetnorthernsaint + Lawyer Ron = Sue Ste. Marie (Mark Racketeer = Romeo Nancy Israel, Bethesda; John O’Byrne, Dublin) two of the winning “offspring” included in the 4 Eckenwiler) and Joliet (Dennis Lindsay, entries at right, and name THEIR foal. This time Devil’s Concierge + Ever a Friend = Beelzebuddy (Roy Ashley) Seabrook) Rob ’Em Blind + With a City = It Takes a Pillage (Brian Barrett) around, however: If a long list of entries arrives Doc Cheney + Dubai Gold = Lamé Duck (Beth Morgan) single-spaced, it may well not be read all the way Rob ’Em Blind + Within + Lawyer Ron = Lawyer, Run! (Elwood Fitzner, Valley City, Tiznow or Never + Well Said = It Is Now or Never (Russell through. Have some mercy, people. The names must 3 Reason = Rob ’Em N.D.) Beland) Myopic (Chris Doyle, Forsyth, have a maximum of 18 characters including spaces, Up an Octave + Laptop Computer = Unix (Tom Witte; Pam Mo.) Eight Ball + Rehoboth = Four Sunbathers (Elden Carnahan) and they shouldn’t come close to duplicating any of Sweeney, Germantown) today’s results. The winner of El Chile Dog + Big Mistake = DontReallyUseDog (Brad Winner receives the Inker, the official Style War God + Press Gently = Mars Kneads Women (Jonathan Picasso’s Nose and Alexander, Wanneroo, Australia) Invitational trophy. First runner-up, courtesy of the 2 Paul, Garrett Park) van Gogh’s Ear: He’s a + Dubai Gold = Wiener Takes Oil (Chris Doyle) good graces of Loser Dave Prevar, gets a really ugly ball + Lemon Law = Dodge Ares (Brendan Beary) Lumberjack + Lawyer Ron = cap with a blob of fake dog do on the visor. On the cap, Fabled + Like Now = ASAP Fables (Brendan Beary) Chop Suey (Rich Muenchow, Your Tent or Mine + Racketeer = Bivouwhacked (Mark in crummy lettering, are the words “[figure it out] Bethesda) Get Off the Sugar + Little Genius = Poindextrose (Stephen Eckenwiler) Head.” (If you win and your mother says you can’t have Dudzik) it, we will send you something else.) Zodiac Zack + Big Mistake = To Aries Human (Pam Sweeney) First Samurai + Doc Cheney = 28 Gauge Shogun (Mark Steppenwolfer + Refinery = Magic Tar Pit Ride (Brian Barrett) Other runners-up win a coveted Style Invitational Loser T-shirt. Eckenwiler) Honorable mentions (or whatever they’re called this week) get one of + Eight Ball = Sushi Cue (Mark Eckenwiler) + War God = MagicCarpetBombing (Stephen Rothandler, the lusted-after Style Invitational Magnets. One prize per entrant per Alexandria) week. Send your entries by e-mail to [email protected] or by He’s a Lumberjack + Circle the World = Bunyan Rings + Get Off the Sugar = Born to Be Wired (David Smith, fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, May 8. Put “Week 660” in AND THE WINNER (Tom Witte, Montgomery Village) Santa Cruz, Calif.; Ernie Staples) the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include + Private Vow = Don’t Ax Don’t Tell (Laura Bennett + Well Said = Born to Be Wilde (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge) your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests OF THE INKER Peterson; Dudley Thompson, Cary, N.C.) + Last Gran Standing = Born to Be Wheeled (Beth are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the Record + Doc property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or + Eight Ball = Ax Again Later (Mark Eckenwiler) Morgan) Cheney = No. 1 With content. Results will be published May 28. No purchase required for 1 + I Believe in Me = I’m OK, He’s OK (Paul Kondis, + Lethal Missile = Hessebollah (Noah Bartlett, a Bullet (Mark Eckenwiler, entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate Alexandria) Washington) relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be Washington) disqualified. The revised title for next week’s contest is by Kevin Dopart Jolted and Jostled + Last Gran Standing = Not for Long (David of Washington. Franks) + Achilles of Troy = QB on the DL (Russell Beland) Next Week: Nuts Fruit, or Gross National Produce In Upper Marlboro, It’s Hammertime All Over Again

PIONEERS, From D1 “That’s right, come on, it’s Ham- mertime, work that body,” yelled Young Rome, Young Guru — these 56-year-old Gloria Goode, standing are the grown rap fans, people who in the front row. Old-school hip- remember the 1980s Fresh Fest hop was the music she heard when tours, when hip-hop was all about a she was clubbing three nights a dope beat and a tight rhyme; a fly, week, getting home just in time to fly girlie and a fat gold chain. They change for work. The widow and remember rap before it turned mother of two from Upper Marl- hard. Before it sold itself for a spot boro jumped up and down. in MTV rotation. And they were The elements were all there — drawn by a night of hip-hop with- the high energy, the lithe, impos- out guns and beeyotches. sibly funky dancers, Hammer’s en- Tony Latney, 44, a letter carrier gaging showmanship, although the from Laurel, was in the lobby wait- details were ceded to time. The ing for wife Wanda, 11-year-old dancers were half Hammer’s 44 daughter Marian and 14-year-old years, there were extended breaks niece Nekia. His son Edward, 10, between songs and Hammer’s stood nearby. “I’ve raised them on showmanship was strategically cal- 1980s music,” said Latney, who culated to let him last the set. brought the kids so they could Amy Adkins of Herndon echoed learn the old dances and see how the feeling of a lot of the crowd: much fun hip-hop used to be. “I’m- The concert’s production values mo Cabbage Patch, I’mmo Smurf, were sub-par in places, a lot of the I’mmo do the Running Man,” Lat- rappers didn’t finish all their songs ney said. I wanted to bring them to and Hammer maybe should have a concert “where I can bump into done fewer songs or cut down the somebody and I don’t have to wor- time for water breaks. Still, all that ry about being shot.” He pines for was secondary to the sweet evoca- old times, hopes the pendulum is tion of going back in the day. “Peo- starting to swing back toward the ple were just psyched about reliv- old-school acts. ing their junior high, high school Inside the arena, as speakers and college years,” said the 32-year- blared the 1986 hit “Pee Wee’s old programming manager for Dance,” emcee Antonio Bruton, co- AOL. “I’m not sure if it’s the time in owner of show sponsor Poetry in our lives that makes it so impor- Motion Entertainment, asked if tant, or if it’s the type of hip-hop we there were any old-school heads in hear today, but it used to be all the house. Kool Moe Dee, born Mo- about battle raps and having fun handas Dewese, belonged to one of and making plays on words,” she the earliest rap groups on record, said. “People just wanted to let the . The forty- loose” and remember when hip-hop something artist took the stage still was so much fun. wearing his signature dark glasses BY MICHEL DU CILLE — THE WASHINGTON POST The crowd filed out after mid- and black leather suit, updated Tony Latney, left, watched as 10-year-old son Edward danced at the Pioneers of Hip Hop concert Friday at Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro. “I’ve raised night, feeling tired, feeling like one with a cellphone in the ear. “How them on 1980s music,” Latney said of his children. The lineup of early hip-hop stars included MC Lyte, Whodini, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee and MC Hammer. nation under the groove. far back y’all go?” he asked before Crystal Davidson, 28, a legal as- he rapped “,” his Who knows how to handle brother’s don’t be maxin’ hit the white wedding reception Human beat box Doug E. Fresh sistant from Arlington, and mom mid-’80s paean to the infectious this here? There’s only one disco, circuit, he was already dope for had the crowd waving and wishing Maxine, 50, who just moved to the hookup. they’ll close one more “bustin’ out of L7 square.” him well on “Keep Risin’ to the area from Sacramento, held hands An exuberant “” Backstage, she had talked about You ain’t guarding the door Whodini hit the stage and a bald Top,” but everybody was waiting with Crystal’s 5-year-old son Ma- felt a little surreal because Kool the people’s hunger for adult hip- So what you got a gun for? Ecstasy, John Fletcher, let his for “The Show/La Di Da Di.” sai. He had danced the entire first Moe Dee is big in the tummy parts hop and lyrics that stayed with you. Do you rob the rich and give trademark black leather hat slide While the crowd rapped the words half of the show then fell asleep. now, and those ’80s dance moves Onstage, her dense, poetic rhymes to the poor? onto his back. They danced the they knew in their sleep, he used It was a good night, an old- hit different. Then MC Lyte, aka were so rapid-fire that the crowd Yo Daddy-O, school ’em some Prep and the Reebok, they sang his lips as a percussive instrument, school night. A night for families, Lana Moorer, took the stage tinier jumped and whistled and waved more “Friends” and “I’m a Ho,” and literally spitting a bass line, deliv- couples, kids, beats, rhymes, life. and more sophisticated than we re- mad love at her flow. “Freaks Come Out at Night,” with a ering a sound so meta-rhythmically member, in cargo jeans and a black When DJ K-Roc asked who knew Laughing like kids as they left spot-on observation: clicky, tap dancers seemed to be in Special correspondent Sufiya jacket, wearing more clothes than the words to her part in the hip-hop the stage, Anderson said, “We’re his throat. Abdur-Rahman contributed to all the current female rap artists collaboration “Self-Destruction,” old-school junkies. We know every You could know someone all All night the crowd had been this report. combined. The rapper who won D.C. police officer Tracie Cannon, rapper in that video, it was all their life, but might not building to MC Hammer, by far the over critics with her 1988 debut 35, and Detective Shelly Anderson, about being positive.” know they’re a freak most commercially successful art- and continued to make hits into the 40, both took the stage to rhyme. The wait between acts got long unless you see them at ist in the show, who dropped the mid-’90s rapped “Poor Georgie,” but even the intermission felt like a night. “MC” when he got crossover big, “Cold Rock a Party” and the sexu- Leave the guns and the crack party for black insider music, but picked it back up for Upper ally suggestive (when was the last and the knives alone though anyone who was feeling it Fletcher said backstage that “af- Marlboro. From 1988 to 1994 he For a gallery of photos time hip-hop was just suggestive?) MC Lyte’s on the was welcome to listen in. It was ter 23 years, 24 years in the busi- had one platinum and three mul- from the Pioneers of Hip “Keep on Keepin’ On.” microphone rappers Salt-N-Pepa, crooners De- ness, it’s a blessing just to be able to tiplatinum albums, and the crowd Hop concert, go to www. Bum rushin’ and crushin’, Barge, then Rick James’s “Mary do it. Just to find out that there’s a was primed for hits like “Turn This washingtonpost.com/

I found myself a new snatchin’ and taxin’ Jane,” for those who understood market out there for rappers over Mutha Out,” “U Can’t Touch This” photo.

[brotha] this year I cram to understand why that before his “Super Freak” ever 30, rappers over 40, that’s big.” and “Too Legit to Quit.”

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