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MEN'S SOCCER COULD NOT REPEAT PIONEER FOOTBALL FALLS TO 7-1 LAST YEAR'S RUN
The Pioneer football team suffered its After advancing to semi·finals last year, the Pioneers fall short first loss on Saturday, October 28th to of another playoff run. number 16 Western Maryland by the score of 3 5-21 . The Pioneers were look ing to avenge a 57-20 loss from the 1999 season and did not meet with much suc cess as a talented Western Maryland team took advantage of early turnovers, Last season, Widener men's soccer resulting in a 25-0 deficit that Widener year was extended as they were could not recover from. selected to :play in the Eastern College Mistakes followed the Pioneers Athletic Conference tournament. around the field on Saturday as the They closed out the season with a 12- 6-1 record under the direction of 20- team turned the ball over six times, year head coach, Fred Dohrmann. placing the ball in the hands of a They were winners of eight straight Western Maryland offense that the games and a school record of seven by Pioneer defense could not contain. The shutout. Pioneers were down 28-7 at halftime The Pioneers established a new and although only giving up one touch. school record for wins in a season with down and scoring two in the second half, 13 as the Pioneers bested Wilkes in the first half mistakes proved to be too the quarterfinals of the ECAC play much to overcome, and the Pioneers offs. Brian Evans gave Widener a 1-0 learned the agony of defeat for the first first half lead as he scored what time in their 2000 campaign. proved to be the game-winning goal Mter the game, Sophomore safety on an assist from Dan Walklett with Billy Walsh said, "We played like dog Senior Mike Granato #12 23:30 left. Walklett scored with two sh.it today; that wasn't our team out minutes remaining_on an assist from Senior Dan Walklett #24 there in the first half." Wh.ile the sopho Wade Groswith. Widener picked up more's view was shared . by all of the stands the road ahead and refuses its 7th shutout of the season, and Mark McManus made seven saves for Widener players following the game, the dwell on the games that are left beh.ind. gave the Pioneers a three-goal cush team evaluated its mistakes by analyz Those games are over, and what matte the Pioneers. With this defeat, the Pioneers ion one-minute later. Walklett assist ing film and looked towards the future most now for the 2000 Pioneers is a ed on both goals. Omar Demercado over Lebanon Valley College advanced to the semi-finals to face with a solid workout on Sunday in Muhlenberg. The eventual champi scored the game's final goal on an preparation for their championship Saturday, November 4th to secure ons scored twice in the first half assist by Davis. McManus made four game against Lebanon Valley. Middle Atlantic Confere against Widener, just seven minutes saves and Jeff Kyle preserved the The humbling loss for the Pioneers Championship and a place in apart, to come away with the victory. shutout by making two saves in the was just that, a loss and noth.ing more. national playoffs. After the impressive run last sea final 12 minutes of the game. The out-of-conference loss means noth son, Dohrmann and h.is team expected In the next matchup against ing in their pursuit of a MAC champi th.is season to take them even further. Eastern, the Pioneers battled but onsh.ip as non . conference games are However, the Pioneers fell short with could not pullout the victory. Rob non- applicable in conference ratings. a 6-10-2 record with one game Bailey tied up the game with 11 min Wh.ile the Pioneers were somber after remaining. Unfortunately, Widener utes remaining in the first half but the defeat, the team is one that under- lost eight out of their last ten games Widener surrendered the game-win finishing up 1·5·1 in the ning score with 24 minutes remain Commonwealth. ing. McManus made 17 saves. KANE LEADS WOMEN SOCCER TO Towards the end of the season, Despite fighting through somewhat Widener lost seven straight before of a disappointing season, there were defeating Juniata 4-0. The win was still bright spots, such as strong fresh their th.ird shutout of the season and man support. Freshman Anthony it came in Commonwealth Conference Davis leads the team in goals with 5. BETTER RECORD action. The Pioneers took a 1-0 lead He also added 1 assist for 11 points. in the first half as Anthony Davis Senior Dan Walklett tied in points scored h.is first of two goals on an with Davis, with 4 goals and 3 assists. Finishing 2·16·1 last year, women's soccer did not have much to prove. Due to assist from Jeremy Sprout. Davis Senior Jeremy. Sprout also con high scoring and intense play, the Pioneers finished 5·12, a vast scored h.is second of the game at the tributed with 4 goals and 2 assists for 10 points. improvement. 75-minute mark and Tom Jackson
Shafer a VOLLEYBALL team strong enough to more than double their wins of the previous season in h.is first year as head coach for the Widener soc cer program. He came to Widener from Lycoming College, also in the MAC, after spending four seasons as head coach of the men and women's teams. Widener played a competitive Left: schedule, wh.ich included games against 2000·2001 1999 NCAA qualifiers Elizabethtown, Widener the winners of four straight University Girls Commonwealth titles, and Scranton, Volleyball Team the 1999 Middle Atlantic Conference Champion. The Pioneers matched their h.ighest Freshman Brooke Eskilow #22 offensive output of the season of four goals for the second straight game en route to defeating Juniata, 4-1 , in ing Widener to a 2-0 week. She scored Commonwealth Conference action. four goals as Widener matched its high With the victory Widener surpassed last est offensive output of the season in both games. Kane gave Widener a 3-0 en e r Conference game season's win total of two games. Katie all has and lost 1 - 3. Widener played four Kane tied the school record for goals in lead against Neumann and she scored three goals against Juniata, including officially come games 5-15, 15-12, 4-15, 15-17 .. They a game as she fired in a hat trick in to a close. The tried to keep hope alive by winning leading the team to the victory. two in the second half. She has been instrumental in helping Widener sur women have finished their season out the second game and taking the The Pioneers picked up their 5th win with an overall record of 13-11 and fourth game into extra playing time. of the season with a victory over pass last season's win total. Kane (sophomore) finished up the Commonwealth conference record of Widener picked up a pair of victories, Albright. The five goals marked the 1-6. The Pioneers ended their season the Pioneers defeated Neumann and h.ighest offensive output of the season year with 10 goals and 1 assist for 19 poiu"'. Katie Strunk (sophomore) fin with a bang winning 3 of 4 games Philadelph.ia University in consecu for Widener. Kane and Katie Strunk against University of the Sciences in tive games. The two shutout victories each scored a pair of goals, and Lauren ished with 8 goals and 1 assist for 17 points. Also, Junior Lauren Forcina con Philadelphia. -The women won the increased wins by shutout to 10 on Forcina also scored a goal. Fresh.man first two games in sets of 15-1 and 15- the season. The Pioneers picked up goaltender Nicole Checch.i, made six tributed with 4 goals and 1 assist for 9 points. 7, lost the th.ird set 12-15 and won the 12 service aces en route to defeating saves in 79-minutes of action ' and last game 15-12. Against USP, senior Philadelphia University, 15-1; 17-7, another freshman, Tara McIntyre, Carrie Addis broke the 200 mark in 15-6. The last conference game of the closed out the final 11 minutes and kills. season Widener lost to Moravian in made one save. ' ,' ,' ~ , , ,',' ,',' ,'~ " t ' ; " ~ , ' ,' .' \'/ On October 18th the : Pioneers striaght games of 3-15, 4-15, 13-15. On Octooer 2nd .- Kane was"selecteu"as "'\ ' c" ,.. ... ~" , ...\ ....."' ..~ ... \ .....\~l 'J.\\~.. ,~ ;..... ,\ , ~\.... ,\, ~~ ,/...... \,'~\ .. '/ ...... ' ../ ..~·~ ~i.. ' , .,~~.\J the MAC' Player ~i tne' Week 'after 'help'-" ,. ., •.•. -, •... , •.'. • ..... , . • \ •. , . \ , , .played ' Susquehanna ':' in a November 3,2000 Widener University: The Dome . Page 9 ing first for the women's team was Laura Capik, junior. Capik finished CROSS COUNTRY 49th overall with a time of 21 :33. Kristen Lane, junior, and first year The Widener Pioneers ran iff 'their runner Laura Przelomiec, sophomore, MAC championships this past week finished one hundreth of a second end the men finished second for the apart. They finished 58th and 60th third straight year. The Pioneers fin respectively with times of 21:44 and ished 25 points behind defending 21:45. Kristen Sheerin, junior ran an champions Elizabethtown. This years exceptionally good race, she improved MAC's were hosted by Allentown her time by 40 seconds, running a College, the same course the team ran personal best of 22:41. Rounding out two weekends ago. the top five for ·the women is Kate Carmine Gentile, sophomore, led Connelly, junior. Connelly has been the Pioneers to the second place finish fighting a bad cold since the begin with a personal best time by more ning of the season and was finally then a minute. Gentile waited all sea able to run a healthy race. Connelly son for this race, he was finally able to finished 77th with a time 22:58. run without the chest congestion that The pioneers will race at the NCAA held him back all season. He trained Regional meet at Dickinson College hard this season, which earned him a on November llth. This gives men 6th place at MAC's and a spot on the and women a good opportunity to beat All Middle Atlantic Conference First many of the teams from the MAC. The Team. The pioneers second runner guys will have another shot at beating was Tim Callinan, junior. Callinan Elizabethtown, who are currently who was the team's Most Outstanding ranked 2nd in the NCAA Mid East 2000-2001 Widener University Girls Cross Country Team Runner in 1999 came back to run in Region and 24th nationally; which his first race since suffering a foot will then improve the ranking of the injury. Pioneers. The women had a good race, finish-
WIDENER RUGBY BOUNCES BACK ROUGH SEASON FOR WATER POLO
After a disappointing loss to us since we are playing Villanova next Water Polo team learned a lot this year and week. I really thought the team "'"",, "" wr~pped up gained much needed experience. York College, Widener's Rugby played well as a whole. The forwards This year Widener played as a coed team pulls together this week- really turned some heads this week ~,~L~.~::::m:;::E:Il ~~:~r sea~~ll team and had hopes of becoming two end and defeats Swarthmore end," states co-captain Kenrick Smith. break, in a series of three games. seperate teams; one boys and one convincingly. Widener had ten different players Their MAC championships were held girls. Well the ladies had an oppurtu that put points on the board during at the University of Pennsylvania. nity they could not pass up. They Widener played· hard and worked well played in one more invitational with Contributing Writli!l~ This . wee~- this slaughter. Thanks, to all our sup porters out there for coming to our together but still lost to the University out the boys. Although the girls only of PennsyJvania, Lycomi n~ and played two of their scheduled three ., . ,;({;0f.Gi~JJ~;~~'i::t':,l:;;;;~ R~gb~lde~e:~ game and drank up afterwards. Come Villanova Universities. The PlOneers games, they still got the experience of p I aye d to the final game of the season next· may not have won one game this sea what it was like to play in an all girl's 8..y{arthmore. Mter losing a close game weekend November 4th when we play son but they certainly showed their league. The girls lost both games but to York College two weeks before, Villanova at Fairmont Park. conference that put up a good fight in Widener was look they were serious the second game. The ing for revenge. about the sport. team was a little Widener was 23-22 Widener rougher then the girls against York, impressed many had expected and had denying them a coaches and to learn how to be a place in the play turned a few little more aggressive. heads at MACs, They handled the ball offs. On Saturday giving teams a real well and Jlut up a against cha ll enge good fight. The girls's Swarthmore they Widener never decided not to play pulled out all the gave up even m their last game stops, beating the fourth quarter because the judges them 80-0. they ke2t the were unfair. "We really heads as high as played well. It was their butts. The good practice for
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PENTATONIC SCALE BOOK OF SHADOWS
turbation the thriller Book of Shadows Musical masturbation is when a mUSiCIan received 2.5 stars and is rated R demand shows off how fast his "chops" are but doesn't for violence, drug use and sexuali skipping over make a point. Some examples of musical mas ty. (Tim Chord Progressions and Barre Chords and div turbation are: Stream Reynolds), and Book of Shadows be~ins much ing right into the Minor Pentatonic Scale. Get Eruption (Van Halen). Stay away from this Showing in theaters all across like the original openmg up in ready to start soloing. Now it's going to be tuff style, as 1 'm sure you will because you can't. the country and in theaters near Burkittsville, Maryland. In the at first to remember the scale but keep at. Keep you, Blair Witch Book of fIrst film, the Blair Witch Project a going up and down the scale. Remember how 1 The Pentatonic Scale II: Shadows will undoubtedly have its group of young filmmakers disap was talking about form. Well here comes the 99% of all rock solo's are played in the pen lecture on how to have blazing fast speed, tatonic scale. 98% of those are played in the viewers a little scared from time to pear in the woods trying to make a which 1 don't have yet. Take your palm and Minor Pentatonic Scale. If you're going to time, ·but frustrated with the over documentary about the legend of turn it so that the entire palm is facing the fret learn solos, this is the one you need. The Minor all movie. Directed b~ Joe the Blair Witch. The three fIlm board. You'll notice that ALOT of guitarists Pentatonic scale is made up of 5 notes (penta-) Berlinger, staring Tristan Skylar, students were never seen again turn their wrists in while playing a solo. That those five notes are the 1,3:1,5,&7 notes in the Stephen Turner, Jeffrey Donovan, and only their video tapes where Kim Director and Erica Leerhsen, hurts speed, believe me. Next thing to do is minor scale. The E minor scale is: Continued on PaJ!e 11 give each finger a fret to cover. So, as you go down the scale your pinkie hits the fifth fret scale and visa-versa. For instance, a song played your ring finger hits the fourth fret, your O-E 1-F 2-F# 3-G 4-G# 5-A 6-A# 7-B 8-C 9-C# lO-D ll-D# 12-E# in the G scale can also be played in the Em. middle finger gets the third fret, and your o I I I 0 I I o I I 0 I I o I I 0 Here are the other counterparts that you may index finger gets the second fret. The more o I I o I I I o I I 0 I I o I I 0 need to know: Em/G you practice, the faster your speed will be. o I I o I I I o I I 0 I o I I I 0 There is something much more important o I I o I I o I I I 0 I o I I I 0 F#m/A to worry about than speed. There are many o I I I o I I o I I o I I o I , I 0 types of solo's. However the most effective is o I I I o I I o I I 0 I I o I I 0 G#m/B what ' s called a melodic solo. Some melodic solo's are: Mother (Pink Floyd), 1 '11 Back Am/C You Up (Dave Matthews), Wonderful Tonight move the entire pattern and begin at the fifth (Eric Clapton). Melodic solos are not amazingly E,F#,G,A,B,C#,D,E. The E minor Pentatonic ' fret. Bm/D fast but fit the song amazingly. There are solo's Scale has the notes: E,G,A.B,&D. Just as in Now 1 know what your asking. How the hell where every note is the right note. You have to chords the scales always start with the root do 1 determine what scale to play the song in. C#m/E learn what notes to hit and when. note. !jpw all you apply the following pattern to All chord progressions lend themselves to a cer Another type of solo is the slashing solo. the g·Ultar. Starting on the open strings is an E, tain key. That certain key is the scale that you Dm/F Some examples of a slashing solo are: Freebird starting at 1 is F. and starting at 3 is G. Notice play. 99% of all rock songs are in the key of the Now you can playa solo to anything. Just (Lynard Skynard), November Rain (Guns 'N' the pattern emerging here. The starting base first chord. Elderly Woman is in the key of D. find out what scale it 's in and screw around. Roses), and lender Surrender (Steve Vai). note determines the scale so just follow the Jaw Stairway To Heavens first chord is an arpeg Make sure that you keep that pattern above These solos are extraordinarily fast and still E string. If you want to playa solo in the B giated Am. The solo played is an Am. until you memorize it. painfuL That is the key to a good slashing solo. minor start the pattern at the 7th fret. Here is I also know your next question. Whqt if the Any questions, write in to Dan Giordano at See, the point behind a slashing solo is to show the pattern for the E minor pentatonic. song is in a major key; like "Elderly Woman?" the Dome. Write for the Literary Journal-We're the pace of the song, and still show a point. Counterparts is the answer. A counterpart is publishing songs this year with chord progreso When there is no point it ' s .called mqsical masy. Now to turn into a A~,l..eJlt.a!-GPlcJ>~ I You . when . ~. ,ma.jE>r s~JeJ <;an, be pilly.eP iJ;!,.a minor sions. . ,. .r, -' 'r. t r.r F." IJf:- .' ' J.) ..' r .f! ,. - ; .r ,r "' i'~ J J') J~ . '. ! J / or :1' , ' , \.'1 ' )' November 3, Widener University: The Dome Page 11 11, . ~~ IXl loY ~ C1~f THE ROOTS CAME, SAW, AND
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QUESTION, Throughout the night, there was a myr iad of ~uests to .sliare the stage WIth Black Thought and The Roots. Among some of the guests were Jaguar, H20, and When listening to an album, you have Kwali. Jaguar accompanied the band for to be careful. Many records are over pro "What You Want" from the The Best Man duced and you aren't exactly getting the soundtrack. H20, not the New York HEY Doc ... ? true sound of the band. Also, you are only Hardcore band, consisted of two young getting a small piece of the band's talent, girls who couldn't have been older than if there is any, and you are only getting a 13. These two girls surprised the hell out fraction of toe energy that they can put of me. It wasn't like we were bein.E hit out. In order to experience Just what with the feminine version of Kriss Kross. music is all about, you have to see the These young ladies could actually flow. I met my girlfriend three years my shadow my whole band live. And there aren't many live Kwali's presencej_ust added to an already ago when we were both sopho I get her to go somewhere else? 2,erformers out there that are better than amazing show. He came out and talked mores. We are graduating next Upset Sister The Roots. about the new Black Star album that's A couple of weeks ago, I had the oppor going to hit the stores,lTand then went into semester and she wants me to tunity to catch The Roots perform live, what I believe was nurricane. I know move from my home state of New Dear Upset: along with a cadre of other talented bas Mos Def recorded this track with The J ersey to Maine where she lives. I You don't have any control over tards, at West Chester University. The Roots, but Kwali provided his services for love her a lot. I just don't know your sister's decisions. However, ticket cost me 15 bucks since I wasn't the song this time. what to do. What do you think? you can definitely talk to her and slick enoug)1 to get myself on the guest The mght fmally came to a close around tell her how you feel. Also, find out list, but hell, the show was well worth the 11:00. The Roots and friends had Rer money. I ended up arrivin~ late and formed and given everything they had to In Limbo what she really wants to do. If you missing the opening act. The Roots were gjve for over 3 and a half hours straight. find out that she has other plans, just taking tlie stage as I wandered into They had definitely left their mark on the Dear Limbo: but is in fact going to come to the crowd and pushed my way to the West Chester crowd. What do you really want to do? If Widener to appease your parents, front. Without warning, The Roots imme This show basically summed up what diately began to tear It up. The feeling real music is all about. It's about energy you are questioning this huge life then maybe you can both talk to you get wlien an amazing band gets mov and talent. It's about loving what you do. change (as you should), you should them about it. Remind your sister mg can be compared to getting hit in the Forget money, Grammys, and fame. It's talk to your girlfriend about it. If that she needs to do what will chest with a sledgehammer. It breaks abopt performing live, giving ev~rything you make a decision like this with make her content. If she doesn't, you up inside. This is what The Roots did you ve got, and SImply slaughtermg your out being completely settled in it, she could end up very angry at to everyone in the crowd. audience. Go see The Roots. then you will most likely be unhap herself and your parents. Just py. I don't want to assume, but remember that you can only talk since you have been going out for about it. The final decision is not BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS three years and say that you love yours to make. her, then you have a pretty strong Continued from Page 10 Witch, a self proclaimed witch or "earth relationship. If this is the case ever found. In ' Book of Shadows, the child" seeking to make contact with the ...... then she will be welcome to hear Disclaimer: This column is a stu same Blair Witch movie you and I saw a Witch, and another not so serious witch ing your wants and needs. Think dent advice column. It is in NO couple of years ago in theaters, was seen with an identity crisis looking for some about it. Talk about it. Do not rush way meant to replace medical or by the characters in the sequel. The Blair fun. into anything that you might psychological help. If you feel that Witch fIlm created unprecedented curios However when the first group of regret. you or someone else might be in customers and tour guide spend their ity and hype about the myth. This hyste first night in the woods, terrifying and any danger, contact a doctor or ria from the original Blair Witch movie is uncontrollable things start happening. counselor immediately. saw as a huge fmancial opportunity for a local towns person offering tourist Youill have to see the movie to find out I am a sophomore this year. My what happens next and how it ends. My and dad are pushing my "authentic" Blair Witch memorabilia and mom tours into the woods. Hiding his own suggestions would be to wait until this younger sister to come to Widener troubled past of mischief and mental films comes out on video. Book of as well. She doesn't want to go I>.roblem, the character creates The Blair Shadows, which the viewer never finds here, but probably will because of Witch Hunt. The sequel begins with the out what it really is, comes up way short the pressure. I don't want her to inaugural adventure tour into the woods. of the original. 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4.) Do You Want More: The Roots dency in the world of hip-hop. Philadelphia's finest group of musi cians and tyricist combine jazz with 8.) It's Dark and Hell is Hot: DMX QgICK REVIEW hip-hop. Black Thoughts intelligence The dark man brings a new de~ee of This listing does not include the old shines through with his top-notch harshness to the street culture. His Laura WinterbQ.ujjiffj I school genre of hip-hop, its compara flow. The album is filled WIth creative lyrics are rough around the edges and br~:kr .!~l~ ble worth does not contest with the beats, something that is uncommon in thrown straight in your face WIth the Staftut;[1l~tri~ilt!i! able to ca~ch mark and consistency of the present the disposable artist of today. The I don't !rive a f(-*! attitude. He deliv up on seemg movement. lyrics are on another level; they go in ers his rhymes as if he had innate all the movies I had wanted to see but the opposite direction of the same old animal instincts. The flow and libera just did not have time to. One of these l.)Ready to Die: The Notorious . gangster and player lifestyle. tion of his talent are all compiled for a was Pay It Forward. The commercials B.I.G.- This album portrayed innov strong and undiminished alJjum. attracted me to see this movie because ative and unique styles of Biggie's 5.) The Infamous: Mobb Deep- The eminent street messages. Ready to most important aspect of rap is to 9.) The Low End Theory: Tribe Called I saw that three great actors: Haley Die pll!)'s like a movie entailing Big's have street credential. Mobb Deep has Quest- This is a q\lality album with Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, and Helen days of a hustler to his future lifestyle it and proves it in their passion good replay value. Although Tribe has Hunt, were all in it. The movie is about of wealthy status. The album is a PIV towards the continuous strugg.1~ of gained the likes of fret boys over a boy who wants to change the world otal collaboration of rhyming which the street life. Their raps are filled recent years this is one Tribe album because of an assignment his Social created higher standards for me's with enumerated and explicit that can be held to true hip-hop Studies teacher gave to him. He starts from east to west. accounts of the hard life. Mobb Deep heads. It's a superior and harmonious a movement called "Paying It has the ability to take disquieting assembling of sound to be heard. Forward." The goal is to help three peo 2.) Illmatic: Nas- Nas emerges from lyrics and paint a horrid pIcture m ple and to tell them how to pay it for the hip hop underground to produce a the mind detailed with elegance. 10.) Reasonable Doubt: Jay-Z- This ward so that they help three people and classic album. Illmatic is laced track album lacks the strength of the lyrical '-. after track with ~imy NYC rapping 6.) The Chronic: Dr. Dre- This supremacy of the newfound dynasty so on and so on. infused with hardhitting prime cut album brought rap back to the west but has fundamental elements. Jigga When you think that you know what beats. This album is a groundbreak coast and revitalized the true mean makes his debut under the wing of is going to happen next in the movie, ing move for what Nas has to offer in ing of gangster rap. Just when every Biggie to rap about his old and newly you are proven completely wrong. his honorable and stylish lyrics. one thought rap was a dying fad, The recognized vitality. It's a landmark Surprises are all over the place, includ Chronic was diopped. Toe album album in the first chapter of Jay-Z's ing the end. It's a touching movie, 3.) All Eyez on Me: 2Pac- All Eyez introduced bubbly beats and the tran upsurge to the lifestyles of the rich because it shows how one person can on Me is a two disc set that is thor guil and unruffled character of Snoop _ and famous. ough on both sides. 2pac's insane and Uogg. affect so many others. Osment gives a uncontrolling hunger for thug life's Other great albums but not quite on tender performance and proves that at top ranks are exalted in his militant 7.) Southernplayalisticadillacmuzic: the list: The Truth-Beanie Siegel no matter what age you can start the style of hammeri~g the oPl!.onents one Outkast- A new sound to rap was 400 De..KI'eez - Juvenile, Things Fail movement to change the world. by one. This is definitely 2Pac's best born in Atlanta when Outkast Apart-The Roots, Black on Both Although things do not always go as album in which he combined the tal released Southernplayalistic. Their Sides-Mos Def, Like Water for planned for him, and the way he ents of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, E-40 and music is filled with a peculiar funk Chocolate-Common, Legal Drug expected them to turn out, his goal is Scarface. . and rhythm. This albUm weighs . Mbney ..:tost Boyz ' " ' , ultimately achieved in'the end. sign)ficance in a new brand of despon- Page 12 Widener University: The Dome November 3, 2000
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