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Schoolboy Q Basks in Glow of No. 1 at SXSW Police: Tyler, the Creator

Schoolboy Q Basks in Glow of No. 1 at SXSW Police: Tyler, the Creator

LIFESTYLE MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014 Music37 & Movies talks 5th No. 1, own mortality at SXSW ick Ross still gets excited by No. 1 , but as he celebrates Remembering rappers Rickhis fifth he takes satisfaction Ro in different ways.ss Ross marked The 38-year-old Miami rapper played new material for fans and Rthe ascendance of “Mastermind” on Saturday night during showed his mind’s been on mortality since he survived a January , drawing one of the week’s larger crowds in 2013 drive-by shooting in Fort Lauderdale. He told the crowd it was Austin during the annual music conference and festival. important to remember the rappers who have died too early like “You know what, when this is what you center everything Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G. and Pimp C before launching into “No- around, you just want the best, not only for yourself, but for your body,” a song with the chilling vocal hook “you’re team, everybody you build with,” Ross said. “I not only want a No. 1 nobody till somebody kills you.” for me but for all the new-time dudes who’ve never been on a No. The song is paired back to back on “Mastermind” with “Shots 1 .” It’s been quite the run for Ross. Five of his six major-label Fired,” a series of news clips recounting the attack. “You know it’s albums started out atop the Billboard 200, moving him into rare unfortunate, it’s nothing to glorify,” Ross said. “Where I come from company. The magazine says among rappers only Jay Z (13), Emi- in my city - I come from Carol City in Miami - they’ve renamed it the nem (seven), and (six apiece) have had more and Miami Gardens, you know, and they done dubbed it the Murder he’s now tied with and DMX. Gardens, and it’s unfortunate. But those are conditions we were Ross attributes the run to remembering where he got his start. unfortunately seeing coming up. So me being in the position I am, “Regardless of the success I see, I still go back to my foundation ... that’s what come with that. So Rule No. 1 in the handbook I studied that made me,” he said as he stood shirtless in his dressing room is never let kill you.” tent following a performance at Fader Fort. “Yesterday, after being Ross says the experience has caused him to look at life through out on promo for two months, I took a day out of my schedule to go a new filter. Not long after the near miss he put on Biggie Smalls’ to the smaller markets in South Carolina, the Columbias, you know “Ready to Die.” “I just listen to it in a different light,” Ross said. “It’s the (places) that don’t get attention. But those are the places where jacked up, but that’s what come with this. ... You’re never indestruc- I remember making my first $5,000 shows from, so I still go to those tible, but what you do is if you have certain feelings you want to places. At the end of the day, I still think that’s the energy that keep that express, you express your feelings. I’ll continue to do that till the day moving like that.” I die.”—AP File photo shows Rick Ross performing at the BET Hip-Hop Honors at Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta.—AP ScHoolboy Q basks in glow of No. 1 at SXSW Police: Tyler, The Creator,

Schoolboy Q performs during the SXSW Music Festival Friday.—AP incited

t’s ScHoolboy Q’s turn. The Los Angeles about his single, nobody really cares about his rapper took the handoff from Top Dawg En- project because it just wasn’t as good.” Terrence riot at Itertainment label-mate and “” Henderson, one of TDE’s two founders, scored a touchdown when his new album “Oxy- said the back-to-back successes “good kid” de- moron” opened at No. 1 two weeks ago. It’s the buted at No. 2 upon release in November 2012 SXSW second straight strong showing for TDE and Q, - show where the label is headed. “The first time who sees it as the start of a championship team. with Kendrick wasn’t a fluke,” Henderson said. “Somebody has to step up besides Kevin Du- Crazy performance rant,” said Q, who has been making the rounds “Q came out, got a No. 1 album, but the Tyler, The Creator performs during the SXSW Music Festival at South By Southwest this week. “Somebody album’s actually great. It’s a great record and early Friday in Austin, .—AP has to step up beside Michael Jordan and Kobe that’s what we aim towards, to put out great Bryant. They can’t do it by themselves. Football music.” Henderson reaffirmed plans to release a is the best example, you can’t win by yourself. new album from every label member this year - apper Tyler, The Creator, was arrested that shows scores of fans bursting through A good quarterback can’t win a championship. SZA is up next on April 8. That list includes Saturday for allegedly inciting a a gate at the Scoot Inn in downtown The linebacker can’t win you a championship. Lamar, who he says has recorded 12 new songs Rriot during a show at the South By Austin. The coach can’t win you a championship. It has but may throw them out and start anew. Inter- Southwest music festival. Travis County Tyler and members of the Odd Future to be everybody.” est is high. Lamar was one of the top nominees Sheriff’s spokesman Roger Wade said the collective were denied a visa to travel to Q held up his part of the deal, delivering at the 2014 Grammy Awards, but was shut out Odd Future rapper, whose name is Tyler New Zealand in February after officials a critically praised major label debut that in what turned out to be a hip-hop landslide Gregory Okonma, was arrested at Austin- there said they were a potential “public compares favorably to Lamar’s Grammy Award- victory for & . Though Bergstrom Airport and was likely to be threat” because of past troubles, “including nominated breakthrough “good kid, m.A.A.d. Lamar didn’t win, he teamed with Imagine arraigned later Saturday. If convicted of incidents at past performances in which city” in its grittiness and authenticity. Given the Dragons for one of the night’s most power- inciting a riot, which is a misdemeanor, he they have incited violence.” They pointed opportunity in front of him, the rapper could ful performances and attained a new level of up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. to a 2011 incident in which police were have aimed for pop radio success, but instead popularity. His bond was set at $3,500. The rapper’s called to a comic book store in Boston made an LP that reflects his life as a father and “The performance was crazy, probably the publicist declined to comment about the where fans became unruly. The group’s former gang member. The 27-year-old began best performance of the night,” Henderson said. arrest. Police say the 23-year-old Los Ange- manager, Christian Clancy, defended them his TDE run as Lamar’s hype man and calls King “I’m not just saying that because that’s my artist, les resident incited a large crowd of fans at last month after the New Zealand deci- Kendrick his brother, giving him the credit for either. After that all the controversy behind him the annual music conference and festival sion, saying they were young at the time his moment. not winning, that’s keeping him in all the con- to push their way past venue employees and were being judged too harshly.—AP “That’s how it goes in any successful label - versations. It keeps us as an underdog. There’s controlling access to a Thursday show that you have to roll off somebody,” Q said. “It’s just no ceiling. If you win, where do you go after was already at full capacity. Officers who up to you to take advantage of the opportunity that? So it gives us something to work towards were at the scene said in a warrant that Ty- because there’s plenty of rappers that have still.”—AP ler yelled for fans to push their way inside friends. Like you have a friend rapper, but he twice, and that a bartender had to protect never gets to drop an album or nobody cares a woman from injury in the resulting push. Police released a video from the concert

David Brenner, frequent ‘Tonight’ guest, dies ther veteran comics could head straight to “” and publicist, Jeff Abraham. In a statement, Walker called Brenner “a true comic couch to banter with , but David Brenner had to genius” who was “my mentor and taught me about life and comedy.” Odo a stand-up routine when he was a guest. Finally, Carson told a The lanky, toothy-grinned Brenner’s brand of puzzled Brenner why.“I like to sit back, smoke a cigarette and laugh for six became a staple for other standups, including Jerry Seinfeld and Paul minutes,” Brenner, in a 2013 interview with CBS, recalled him saying. Reiser. “David Brenner was a huge star when I met him and he took me Carson’s regard for Brenner, who died in his City home Sat- under his wing. To me, historically, he was the godfather of hip, observa- urday at age 78 after battling cancer, made him one of the most frequent tional comedy,” comedian said in a statement. “He mentored visitors to “Tonight” as a guest and substitute host who was on more than me from day one. ... His passing leaves a hole in my life that can never be 150 times. And NBC’s late-night show, in return, made Brenner’s career. It replaced.” made the former documentary filmmaker into a hot comedian, one who Brenner took a brief stab at upping his TV fame with the 1976 sit- was ubiquitous on other talk shows and game shows. com “Snip” and the talk show “Nightlife” he hosted in 1987. But he The lanky, always sharply dressed Brenner also briefly hosted his own didn’t achieve the success of Seinfeld’s self-titled NBC sitcom or Reiser’s syndicated talk show in 1987 and starred in four HBO specials. Brenner “Mad About You,” and he saw follow Carson as “Tonight” host. moved with the times, trading routines about the humor of everyday Brenner’s take on his career, as he described it in a 2000 interview with life for jokes about social and political issues, and appearing on MSNBC The , was that he put family before stardom. and Channel cable programs. Although his career faltered, he worked steadily through 2013 doing standup. A four-day gig last Decem- Brenner’s legacy ber included a New Year’s Eve show at a Pennsylvania casino-resort in He said a long custody battle with a girlfriend over their son, Cole, In this Sept 24, 1986 file photo, comedian which he showcased young comedians. forced him to curtail his TV appearances and visibility beginning in the David Brenner hosts avant garde fusion Brenner, who was raised in working-class south and mid-1980s, when Brenner lived in Aspen, Colo. “In a nutshell, I couldn’t musician Frank Zappa, center, and his graduated with honors from Temple University, was “always there helping work more than 50 nights a year (out of town) or I’d be an absentee children, Dweezil, left, and Moon Unit, a bright young comedian, whether it be Richard Lewis, or father,” he said. “That was when they were giving out the talk shows, the during a taping of Brenner’s “Nightlife” Jimmie Walker, and he was still doing it until the very end,” said his friend sitcoms.” He was asked if he regretted his decision.—AP talk show in New York.—AP

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