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Issue Number 19 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Winter 2019 NBA Mid-Season Status Report

By Michael Abrams Tusker Tribune Staff Who leads the league in average rebounds Midway through the NBA season per game? and we have a LOT of things to talk about. Let’s go! 1. 2. Deandre Jordan Who are the top 3 players in 3. average points per game?

1. James Harden: 36.3 Points per Who leads the league game in average steals per game? 2. Antony Davis: 29.3 3. Steph Curry: 29.3 1. 2. Russel Westbrook Who are the leaders in av- 3. Robert Covington erage assists? Who leads the league in average blocks per 1. Russel Westbrook game? 2. Kyle Lowry 3. Ben Simmons 1. 2. Anthony Davis 3. Hassan Whiteside Continued on Page 2 LII is This Weekend

By Arjun Ojha That game Tusker Tribune Staff was won by February 3rd is a big day for foot- Greg Zuer- ball fans worldwide. It’s a big day because lein. He hit a it’s Super Bowl Sunday. 57-yard field It’s a big day for the two teams in goal to win the Super Bowl because they know that they’ll the game in have a chance to be victorious and come away overtime. with the Lombardi Trophy. The finished the The Super Bowl will be played on February season 11-5, beating the Chargers 41- 3rd, 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium down in At- 28 and the Kansas City Chiefs 37-31 in the lanta, GA. The two teams in it are the Los Angeles playoffs. That game also went to overtime and was Rams and the won by Patriots Rex Burkhead. The New England New England Patriots are led by the “G.O.A.T”, Patriots. . The Los Tom Brady has had a lot of experience win- Angeles Rams ning 5 Super Bowls, while Rams Quarterback Jar- finished the sea- ed Goff is young and is playing in his first Super son 13-3, beating Bowl. He has only played two playoff games in his the Dallas Cow- career (the ones he won this year). boys 30-22 and In my opinion, I want the Los Angeles the New Orleans Rams to win. I know that there are some New Saints 26-23 in England Patriots fans in the school. I think the the playoffs. Los Angeles Rams will win 45-38. The Tusker Tribune Page 2 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Penny Wars/Food D DAY, JUNE 6, 1944 Drive OPERATION OVERLORD Reminder

Bring in loose change and non- By Peter Shay perishable items to your Tusker Tribune Staff Advisory class between D Day happened on June 6th, 1944 on the invasion of Norman- now and February 14. Not dy France and was the largest amphibious attack there ever only on Tuesdays, but also was in history. The battle was the allies which where the throughout the week. Americans and the British battling it out on several beaches' vs Any money will be the Germans who didn’t really like the allies coming and saying, accepted. The class that “Normandy is ours!” So, the Germans set up defenses on the beaches. brings in the most money These were some of the various beaches attacked on D Day: and/or food will win a cookie cake! The money  Utah beach will be donated to an or-  Omaha beach ganization.  Gold beach  Juno beach  Sword beach

The most iconic beach was Omaha because it met the most resistance. That is most likely the beach that people would say when The Tusker Tribune is the online Somers Middle School Student asked where was d day? The attack Newspaper. It is published weekly has lost the lives of around 209,000 (except during school vacations) on allies and around 425,000 Germans the Somers Middle School Website. after the battle. It is entirely student-written by 6th, 7th and 8th grade students from: At around 6:30 a.m., the al- Somers Middle School lies left the ships and onto the 250 Route 202 1,089 LCVP’S (Landing craft vehi- Somers, NY, USA. Any SMS student is eligible to write cle personnel) And sailed through stories. If interested, please e-mail the Atlantic toward the beaches. Advisor Dean Pappas at The Germans immediately started [email protected] filling the bunkers with Germans and they started firing the MG42’s at the hundreds on LCVP’s and the terror was within those vehicles. The LCVP’s could hold up to 32 solders in the front 2 machine gunners and NBA 1 pilot. The soldiers where very terrified knowing very many of them From Page 1 would die during the battle and if you were standing in the front of the vehicle you could hear the machine gun fire hitting the door. The LCVP Who Will Probably Win Had a very interesting ramp/door mechanism, you would turn a valve the MVP Award? and a big ramp at the front would lower down onto the ground. I think James During the launch many people had to either jump off the side Harden will win the MVP of the LCVP’s because of the Germans MG42 fire spraying into the because he has done eve- open ramp and into the craft. Essentially if you were in the front of it, rything he can do to help you were dead, very dead. So, people jumped off the side of the LCVP the Rockets be- and into the water, but since there gear was too heavy most of them come a contender in the drowned. The 2 Machine guns on the craft helped a bit but they died to playoffs. the superior MG42’s going through the metal and they eventually got shot, or if they were lucky, they would live and jump off the side and either drown or die in the battlefield. So, if you were lucky enough at the beginning of the attack and get on the beach and either die from the MG fire or step on a land mine. Yeah, Land mines Omaha beach was basically just a big land mine field and barbed wire, so the Americans had their demolition ex- perts blow up the mines so the men could go through, but most of the land mines had already been blown up by soldiers.

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D Day against it and they couldn’t get shot by the MG From Page 2 fire from there. The mound was very close to the sea wall which was the hill that the Americans We Were Smart where trying to get up.

Well, we weren’t that smart during the at- The German tack but still we were smart and lucky. We had Defenses decided to go attack on low tide. That meant that The Germans had they could see most of the traps that were sup- 3 bunkers visible on the posed to blow up the LCVP’s when they landed beach and 2 of those were because at high tide all the MG42 bunkers that were traps would be under the wa- on the far-left side due to ter. The downside to us coming that was where most of at low tide was that we had the Americans landed this huge expansive beach be- and the other one was a tween us and the Germans. naval artillery cannon The traps that were there that was there to destroy were very interesting—first the LCVP’S when they there were the anti-tank hedge landed. The Germans hogs which were these weird X had a very sophisticated system to their bunkers. formation metal traps. And And even though only 2 MG42’s could fit in one they were used to stop tanks. Hedge hogs weighed bunker, they still laid down some serious fire pow- up to 5 tons and were around 5 feet 11 inches. er. Other traps were basically logs that were propped The Trenches up and had land mines all over them so when the The Germans had a very good trench sys- LCVP’s hit the log, it would blow up. tem that was dug behind the bunkers, these trenches led to the bunkers, gun emplacements, The Mound outcroppings and different During the battle the allies had made it to parts of the defensive line. “the mound” is what they called it. which was a These trenches were also dug mound due to the sea push- to help fortify behind the sea- ing sand in a long mound wall and the defense area just formation, the Germans in case the Americans decided took advantage of this and to drop a ton of paratroopers put barbed wire all over it behind them. They were also and the Americans had to used in case of the Americans blast through it with a breaking through the bunkers Bangalore or let the Ger- defense line and getting on top mans blow it up accidently. of the seawall. The Americans lined up

Co-Editors , DMX and the History Noah Volkman Joseph Melillo Of Yelling In Hip-Hop

Feature Editor Samuel Sanz By Noah Volkman sadness and everything in between, Sports Editor Tusker Tribune Staff MCs often spit their feelings on Jesse Manginelli As an art form that wax.

Photography Editor prides itself on self- In the beginning, MCs Allison O’Connor expression, hip-hop has al- rapped to rock a party and usually ways been loud. And today, we’re played it cool, but Run-DMC took it Copy Editors William Underkoffler hearing that style of yelling in rap to another level, with the help of Michael Aiello more than ever. Everyone from bois- their Def Jam records producer, terous MCs like South ’s Ski . “Back in the 70s we Reporters Mask the Slump God, ’s used to have old disco records with Arjun Ojha Peter Shay Sheck Wes and of St. no beats hardly. So, we had to find Michael Abrams Louis. But who were the first rap- something to scratch, so we would Noah Volkman pers to really make yelling on a take the heavy metal records and

track a trend? just scratch the drum part over and From its earliest days, hip- over so that’s how we came up with hop has always been a way to ex- the heavy metal idea,” they said. press yourself. From happiness to Continued on Page 4 The Tusker Tribune Page 4 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Yelling contemporaries and made his voice one that you From Page 3 couldn’t ignore. By the early 2000s, DMX had earned him- Tracks like “” and “It’s Like That” self 15 songs on the , and to this mark some of the earliest examples of MCs yell- day is still a household name in hip-hop. The 90s ing on their records. And while they weren’t al- also gave us Three 6 Mafia, whose impact is re- ways yelling, in 1986 the group broke new ground flected in everything from today’s emulating their in hip-hop by collaborating with old flow, to their old beats. The late 90s brought on “,” us plenty of loud songs and loud rap- that took their popularity to new pers who sometimes yelled. There was heights. , , Busta Rhymes Around the same time, an- and Ja Rule, just to name a few. other Queens rapper and Def Jam But the early 2000s were argua- signee LL Cool J, brought an even bly ruled by another rambunctious art- more charismatic energy on songs ist: . Lil Jon started as a DJ, but like “I’m Bad.” Next up, the for- his high energy ad-libs and verses mer punk band-turned-rappers helped popularize music and de- the dropped their fine the sound of an era. “There weren’t debut , Licensed to Ill fea- no cats in making records for turing “Fight For You Right.” As Atlanta people to get crunk and rowdy hip-hop evolved over the course of to. So as a DJ I saw that and I was like, the 80s, even more high-energy “Man, let’s make a record.”,” Lil Jon acts like the Fat Boys, Public Ene- said. my and N.W.A. arrived who some- Lil Jon ultimately scored himself times, but not always, yelled at us. 21 songs in the Hot 100 and 8 Top 10 And then came Onyx. hits, helping to cement his place in the The Queens MCs came out soundtrack of that time. But as the early swinging, both in their energy and aughts ended and Crunk began to fade, literally, with their debut album some point to Atlanta’s Waka Flocka Bacdaf--up in 1993. “We got the Flame as the next one in rap’s lineage of chorus from Nirvana’s “Smells yelling along with being the father of Like Teen Spirit” that’s where the today’s loud style. And even Waka him- idea came from. We wanted to self thinks so. “I am the first, of my gen- have black people, hip-hop, slam dancing in the eration, to carry it.” His rowdy songs and intensi- gym just like that,” they said. Now, we see that ty made him stand out from his peers. “I don’t kind of thing at rap shows all the time. Their sin- have no formula. I just hear the beat, rap, and go gle, “Slam” took over the charts, peaking at #4 on hard.” the Billboard Hot 100. “What I want our legacy to Shortly after in 2012, dropped a be remembered as is that we just brought that few of his early bangers and got a lot of attention mad face to music. That’s it. That mad face, that just from the energy he was putting into each slam dancing, that angst, that energy.” track. Rapper YBN Almight Jay said that “most And we saw Staten Island’s legendary Wu- of the words that you hear now came from Chief Tang Clan bring a whole new energy to hip-hop. Keef – ‘opp,’ that’s Chief Keef. Everybody remem- “Wu-Tang is really straight up, raw, it isn’t no cut bers where they were when the first time they in it, isn’t no speed or nothing baby. It’s straight heard “Don’t Like.” Of course there were plenty of up raw” ODB of Wu-Tang said on MTV. The 90s other artists, like Philly’s , who became gave us several other loud acts, like the known for just how loud he is on the track, even if duo M.O.P. Lil Fame and Billy Danze (the two he isn’t always yelling. As the 2010s rolled on, we members) have carved a special place in rap with got even louder artists like OG Maco and OT their singular Brownsville, Brooklyn style. “We Genasis. Today, so many artists have taken this aren’t angry at one person we angry at majority of delivery to a new level. Like the late the country. We from Brownsville, dawg and peo- XXXTENTACION, whose posthumous album, ple don’t know how it is in our world. All that is, SKINS features a distinct metal-influenced is just frustration.” Danze said in an interview. sound. Brooklyn’s Tekashi 6ix9ine has also made And down south, there was Louisiana’s own Mys- a name for himself as someone who’s almost al- tikal. ways yelling at us. When asked he would describe his style, Other artists, like ’s ZillaKami he said, “I don’t know. Different, unique. And I and SosMula, and Rico have know that’s broad but that’s what it is,” he said. all helped push forward yet another wave of yell- Later the world was also introduced to DMX, one ing. Yelling on a track isn’t distinct to just one of the loudest and most unforgettable rappers. artist. But whether rappers are yelling because DMX said that “he came out like that dude that they’re mad of they just wanna make sure you every dude wanted to be. Ready for war.” DMX’s hear them, hip-hop isn’t quieting down any time growls and gruff sound set him apart from his soon.