The Weekly Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus

a t j o e (a k a FJ: It’s definitely with me, Raekwon, who want the real. Peo­ less and wild. Runnin’ (laughs) Lord Finesse, Joey Crack and more lyrical. It’s more Ghost Face, Nas, AZ ple who can look at Fat around spending mo­ featuring O .C . a n d F Fat Joe Da creative. It’s much and Mobb Deep. That Joe in the video and tell ney, having fun, cause KRS-One. That shit is Gangsta) is quickly be- tighter. You can hear will be the cream tour. that he really went even then he was still hot. Whoa! Boom Bam! coming a regular the whole thing and not AW: What do you through what he is say­ number one. I just loved I got the slammin’ tape, amongst New York’s have to fast-forward think of live hip-hop ing. I like the worst peo­ him. He represented me B. Niggas can’t fuck most elite emcees. Fat through songs. That’s shows? ple. I like the baddest and represented the with my tape right now. Joe’s new album, Jeal­ the problem with a lot FJ: There are certain people to enjoy my Bronx. I remember go­ Maybe I should take ous One’s Envy, is an of rappers today, they people who get busy. music. I want every­ ing to junior high you to the old school for impeccably produced, just think that they are Hip-hop shows have body to enjoy my music, school and everybody the last joint I’d play lyrically solid album, going to have three vid­ definitely gotten less but definitely the scum, was like “KRS! KRS!” I “The Vapors” by Biz with guest spots by eos — let’s make three creative in these stages the lowlifes. Once you wonder if they talk like Markie. No, no, no. I’d KRS-One and Raek- dope songs, and leave of the game. I remember got the underground that about Fat Joe now. play “Hey Young won. Joe can also be the other nine songs when I used to go see and the streets, you got He’s a good person. World” by Slick Rick. heard collaborating on wack. That’s the'wack Run-DMC, Whodini, it all. Now that we’ve become new albums by KRS and shit! I was tryin’ to do LL [Cool J], Heavy D — AW: What influence AW: What rappers tight friends, almost like will still be considered LL Cool J and countless the album like it was they put on a crazy has KRS-One had on brothers he’s just great, dope in five years? East Coast videos. one song, just tie the show. Now to be real in your career and your he’s beautiful to see in Artsweek’s Michael Abramson recently had 17: Nas. Fat Joe. Wu- the opportunity to chat Tang. 2Pac. That with Joe about his ex­ fuckin’ Onyx’s “Last perience in the world of Days” is h o t LL Cool J rap ’n’ roll. will definitelybe on five AW: What’s up, Joe? years from now. And FJ: I’m just runnin’ KRS-One. hectic, you know. Got 1 AW: What are some out of the studio at like of your favorite non­ 12 this afternoon after rap CDs? recording all night long. Motherfuckers are cal­ 17: Babyface, not this lin’ me all day and shit. one, the one before it AW: What were you (begins singing Baby- doing in the studio? face lyrics). Luther Van- FJ: This new remix dross’ greatest hits. for “Envy.” That is go­ Fuckin’ Spanish music, ing to be the next single, salsa, La India. That’s remixed by TrackMas- pretty dope. ters. It’s hot man, oh AW: Some of your God! Biggie [Smalls] lyrics depict a grim, gotta watch his back crime-filled lifestyle. right about now with Why rap about these this one. (laughs) subjects? AW: Yeah. I really liked the new album. 17: ’Cause I love i t ’Cause it’s what I want FJ: Thanks a lot man, I appreciate that. It was to rap about. That’s just made for niggas like you me. I’m Fat Joe, I walk to enjoy. the streets every day, AW: I’ve read that humble and cool. But if you weren’t exactly a nigga bumps into me pleased with your first and tries to look at me the wrong way, I knock effort Represent Why was that? him out. I’m not one of these ordinary rappers FJ: There had been — I do flip. For real. many Latino and Puerto Rican rappers AW: What do you before me who contri­ say to someone who buted to this rap game says, while your music and never got any ack­ may not actually cause nowledgement and crime, it does contri­ were never given any whole thing together. hip-hop you just got to music? action. bute to it? props. I was layin’ in the AW: You’ve worked grab the mic in front of FJ: He’s definitely in­ AW: If you were go­ FJ: I would say, “All cut, lovin’ this music with many of the pre­ everybody, dressed fluenced me, he’s like ing to put out a six- I’m doing is entertain­ from day one, and was mier producers on both however you feel like my idol. Him and LL song mix tape entitled ing and just like horror like, ‘To, when is there of your albums. Is dressing, and just put it Cool J are my two favo­ “The Dopest Tracks,” movie$, action movies, going to be a Puerto Ri­ there anyone who you on. Kid n’ Play were en­ rite rappers in the whole what would these porno movies and com­ can to blow up the want to work with that tertainers giving you a world. Juice Crew was songs be? edy, I’m the gangsta spot?” So when Repre­ you haven’t yet? crazy show. But now we rockin’, MC Shan, 17: 1 like the AZ joint category of rap. If you sent came out, and FJ: I don’t know. got KRS who rips Melle Mel, Biz Markie, with Nas on the hook. wish not to listen to this “Flow Joe” hit #1 Bill­ Maybe Dre. Dre’s off shows. The Fugees are a Big Daddy Kane, Kool That shit is hot I’ll put because it may cause board single, we blew the hook. I love DJ Slip. mad, dope kind of G-Rap, everybody was “I Shot Ya” LL Cool J you to do some crime, up the spot and did I’ll definitely use him show. The Roots are fearin’ it up, everybody remix featuring Fat Joe, then listen to some MC what had to be done. for a remix on the next dope. thought they were in­ Keith Murray, Mobb Hammer, some gospel That was my main en­ single. I’ll use a West AW: Do you have a vincible and here comes Deep, Foxy Brown and rap, or some shit — it’s joyment out of the first Coast producer as long certain audience in KRS, puts it on MC LL. The Fugees have out there.” album, plus it set me up as it’s something I’ll en­ mind when you write Shan, something this new song, with that AW: There’s a guy in for the next album. joy — not some old lyrics? terrible. girl Lauryn freestylin’. San Diego named Phot Some people were like crazy funk. It’s gotta be FJ: Yeah. I have a real The Bronx wasn’t She’s illin’ that shit I’d Jay Da Pranksta, have “Flow Joe” was dope, something that I like. nigga audience in mind. saying nothing for a mi­ play Tha Dogg Pound you ever heard o f him? “The Shit Is Real” was AW: Do you plan on AW: What does that nute, even though we “New York, New dope, but the album touring to support the mean? are the home of hip- York.” Umm.... FJ: No, b ut th at’s wasn’t too tight album? IJ: Like people who hop. And my man KRS AW: Vanilla Ice? dope. It compliments AW: How is Jealous FJ: Definitely., We’re are tired of all the just came out with a . FJ: .Not. no Vanilla you. It lets you know One’s Envy different? talking about a tour gangsta rappers. People brand new style, ruth­ Ice, are you crazy man? niggas want to be down. 2 A Thursday, January 4,1996 Daily Nexus ® Solo No More Sabrina (Julia Ormond), of the new plished in the time-honored fashion of have Miss Ormand to look at. However, nia). To protect his investments, Linus film Sabrina, is the daughter of a wealthy giving her glasses and a bad haircut. during the glacial progress of the second tries to lure Sabrina away from David family's chauffer and has grown up with a But then Sabrina goes on a working half, director Sydney Pollack floods the with his more heavy-duly handsomeness. life-long crush on David (Greg Kinnear of holiday to Paris where she discovers out­ picture waist-high with sentimental trea­ She is resistant at first, but once she sees television’s Later), the youngest son of door cafes, pretentious dialogue and most cle and it's hard enough for the characters the size of his bank statement and his the family. David lives the lifestyle of a importantly, contact lenses. Returning to to wade to the end of each over-extended strapping wallet, it’s love at first sight. pampered playboy with more than his fair America, eager to claim David, she causes scene. The scenes between Ormond and “After that,” quips Linus, “she’d fall for share of beautiful women— a lifestyle fi­ quiteastir. What poise! Whatasmile! She Ford in particular are numbingly long and Noriega.” nanced by his millionaire businessman can hold a conversation! Understandably painful. Sabrina is a bad half-hour too long and brother Linus (Harrison Ford) — and smitten, David is on the verge of breaking Sabrina is a remake of a 1954 comedy Harrison Ford’s one-paced acting style mostly ignores poor old Sabrina, his off his engagement to a red-headed with Audrey Hepburn and sometimes its makes him look a little stiff here. Still adoring admirer. heiress, to the consternation of Linus age shows. Its view of Paris, for example, there are some good laughs early on and it Now there can’t be a more attractive who needs the marriage to cement a busi­ is naive and ridiculous. Another sign of has its pleasures, especially in the fine act­ actress around than the statuesque Julia ness deal. this aging is that women are not so ob­ ing of Ormond and Kinnear. Ormond, but the plot demands that ini­ So far so funny. The jokes are coming sessed with money as they are in the film tially she be overlooked. This is accom­ in fast and accurately and in between we (well OK, outside of Southern Califor­ —Martin Knight

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I got the hell out of I.V.... Someone told me the ÌBIS MASTER'S T0ICEÌ neighborhood in Goleta I was moving into was kinda bad. How bad M ore 11 fniversal Wisdom would it have to be, I s i d e thought, to be worse than where I lived? Might there a m > | ! • %s be packs of hundreds of white drunk people in Darice Hall Sattlers front of my house who might come in and ask for # • @ \ beer if 1 have too many U / # friends over? Probably not. Besides, I grew up around L.A., I’ve “Even if you are right about something, gotten hard looks from some pretty hard you lose if you refuse to see what the other people. person is saying. And if it feels like you I’ll never live with six people again, un­ won it is only because the other person less they all have hair of gold, Uke their decided it wasn’t worth fighting you.” mother. Things got messy. It was just dis­ In another conversation we had after gusting by the time we moved out. By an the first good night’s sleep in our new amazing series of coincidences we found house, he told me what he knew about a new place, moved and cleaned our what’s going on in my head, “Maybe 5 house completely by Jan. 1,1996. As the percent of what is going in your head, I, as apple or ball dropped in Times Square I another person, can see. You see 100 per­ was loading boxes full of stuff I never ex­ cent, so of course you feel right and you pected to have in a truck in the middle of a can see where you are coming from.” windstorm, of all things. When the taped I’ve known for a long time that I have to version of New Year’s happened in Santa start seeing what is going on in other peo­ Barbara I took a break for a couple hours. ple’s heads. I didn’t really get to party or even relax, Everyone and everything might have but I felt like I was irithe middle of a prog­ something worthwhile to offer, based on SATURDAY• JAN 13 9:00 PM ressive party that was going to make my that principle we went to a thrift shop to life better. look for some bar stools for our new bar. I lived and I still live with a good friend Thrift shops are the most elegant poets. AT THE UNIVERSITY CENTER I’ve had longer than I’ve had pubes. He They don’t say odes to love designed to Lyric of with styles incredible like the Hulk and/ I'm bringin' my point to your ears like a Vulcan the Week: . ______-Key-Kool tells me all kinds of secrets about life. I woo or confessions meant to impress. guess he had just learned a lot of secrets They tell stories. They remind us that right before we moved because he shared everyone has had a past they’ve moved on them with me as we worked on moving. from. That everyone has had a life consist­ “Arguing with people, especially people ing of things Other than just what we want you care about, is ridiculous,” he told me from them. Thrift shops let people help in a voice that sounds like I’m hearing people out and make life potentially more him read a letter that he’d written. “I’m meaningful at a discount price. Poetry. hot,” he said. It’s kinda cool to shop in thrift shops, I “OK,” I told him. hear nowadays. Which made me wonder: “You’re cold.” I saw a copy of the New Kids on the — “OK.” Block’s Hanging Tough video in the “Who’s right?” video section of the thrift shop after we - “Oh,” I thought. “That’s good. I under- didn’t find any stools. It was the same * stand what you’re saying.” video a friend told me she was never going “If you start talking to someone and to throw away because she’s had it since you get mad or too involved in what you seventh grade. It was the only video the are defending, you lose. Pick your thrift shop had that I recognized. causes.” What if, I thought, one of the New Kids This was a new criteria for looking at shops at thrift shops nowadays, since it is problems and issues. I was shocked, but kinda cool. It might suck to see your old Buck O’ Nine compulsed enough to keep talking. video among all the other shit. That’s “Then I don’t think I’ve ever won an pretty funny, I thought, I’m going to write axgument. an article about that. # A ? • SAM * Mf tme esmrsm

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I first read about Count Bass-D way back in Febru­ ary in a free copy of Pulse they gave away while I was waiting to be seated at the Hard Rock Cafe in L.A. to try and finagle a copy unconventional approach The writer of the piece was from them, and was told a little awkward or even going on and on, raving that they weren’t doing corny and avoid it like the about Pre-Life Crisis, press mailings. I asked the plague is probably valid, Bass-D’s debut. I remem­ publicist if she could at the truth is that Pre-Life ber dismissing the writer’s least tell me where to buy a Crisis is easily one of the claims, thinking that copy, and she said she freshest albums to come Count Bass-D could only didn’t know. out in the past few years. be the name of a played- By then I had figured Bass-D is almost a one- out fool from Miami still that Count Bass-D had man band; he sings and doing that bass shit. been dropped from his rhymes (sounding more But then, through the label or had died or some­ than a bit like Michael months, more and more thing weird like that. Franti) and plays bass, credible media sources But he didn’t die. His drums, keyboards and were singing the praises of label just fucked him, like does nearly all of the al­ Bass-D. Spin, CM] and Capitol did to Aceyalone. bum’s producing, prog­ even Vibe were all over D’s From what I’ve heard, ramming and sequencing. dick, saying that the man Sony, WORK’S parent The record’s sound is could single-handedly label, sat on the project for smooth and soulful and I breathe new life into hip- months, mailing press de­ can’t think of one song on jTickets for all of these shows are on sale NOW at| hop with this record. They mos to all the bigwigs, all it that I don’t like, al­ explained that the Count’s the while avoiding ever ac­ though “Sandwiches,” Ithe A.S. Ticket Office, Mominglory in isla Vista,I style blended smooth jazz tually printing up albums “Agriculture” and “T-Boz land at all the usual Ticketmaster outlets includ-l instrumentation, bass- for DJs to play or for con­ Tried to Talk to Me” are heavy 808 kicks and a sumer purchase. probably my favorites. ling: The Wherehouse, The Arlington Theater, and! clever, sing-songy rhyme Until now. There are co­ Bottom line: Support style and that Pre-Life Cri­ pies of the excellent (and it Count Bass-D’s record ¡Robinsons»May. Charge by Phone: 893-2064.! sis was unlike anything is excellent) Pre-Life Cri­ and let Sony and the other ever done before. sis out in most stores, and labels know that the So I looked and looked, the label is finally doing chances they take with ^ ASPB INFO HOTLINE: 893 283 3^ ^ but had no luck finding the press mailings. Although non-traditional sounds check out our web page at: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/aspb/ album anywhere. I called Sony’s fear that a lot of will pay off! the tappers, label in Juqe. ,, heads- may find- Bass-D’s. ■ , » —Eric Harle Steuer . L * . 4 <£ .J> -ti. >4 41 J . m m A Jt J J- /■ 4C 4A Thursday, January 4,1996 Daily Nexus

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