Word: brothers
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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones delivered a private performance last weekend at Tufts University. Besides Bela, the band includes Victor Wooten on bass guitar, "Future Man" (Wooten's brother) on synthesized percussion and Jeff Coffin on sax. Victor Wooten has been voted Bass Player Magazine's "Bassist of the Year" for three years in a row. And it is little wonder why. His mastery of the instrument leaves you room for no other reaction than a open jawdrop as you let out a few nervous laughs, expecting the Apocalypse. This might seem like a strange statement, but this reviewer does...
...Represent" from their 1992 Runaway Slave: the posse cut that features the recently deceased Big L (R.I.P.), among others, spewing out some of the illest battle rhymes to date. This head sets it off not giving a damn about anything: "Yo on the mic is Big L the brother who gives flames god/known for sending garbage MC's to the graveyard/I pack a gat not a slingshot/step to this you get an ass-whipping like Rodney King...
...first column, we'll play two rounds of an ice-breaker called "Two truths and a lie." Spot the lie from the following to win: a) I am a citizen of no country whatsoever; b) I have a blood brother; c) I almost became a runway model. The answer appears at the bottom...
...Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamozov, Ivan tells his brother that he loves his neighbor, but only from a distance. "For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone... Beggars should never show themselves, but ask for charity through the newspapers... Children can be loved even at close quarters, even when they are dirty, even when they are ugly...
...None of it is true. I did a joke tonight [where] I said I had three older sisters, and my father always wanted a boyfriend; but then I said I had a brother. I forgot that I forgot to tell [the audience]. I like things to stay in people's minds because they don't know why it doesn't work exactly that I don't have a brother. I think some are thinking, "But she only has three sisters." If I'm going to lie, I have to be consistent. But I think you can lie in art, right...