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Students watched Hurt on-screen in his evolution into an activist whose post-college soul searching led him to challenge hip-hop artists like Mos Def, Fat Joe, and Busta Rhymes to contemplate images of manhood in their music...
...Chow ’07 of Ramaswamy’s rapper alter-ego. Though “Da Vek” raps libertarian prose with the utmost of ease, don’t expect to see him in section. The rapper, who fearlessly showed off his skills at the Busta Rhymes concert in spring 2004, only emerges when Ramaswamy is outfitted entirely in black, complete with a black Kangol hat. “They’re two completely different people,” says Chow. When “Da Vek” goes into hiding...
...even with the cash leftover from previous years’ surpluses, there simply wasn’t enough funding to throw a party the size of, say, last spring’s Yardfest. (The Office of the President was generous enough to pay for that spring’s Busta Rhymes concert.) So, the UC called a referendum to ask for permission to raise the termbill fee to $75, with proponents of the raise touting “a better Harvard” through more campus-wide events, and such social events were the sole goal of the extra cash...
...April, Proof, from the group D12, was shot and killed during an altercation at a Detroit nightclub. Two months earlier, a security guard for Busta Rhymes was gunned down outside of a recording studio in New York. That murder, like the murders of Pac and Biggie, remain unsolved. Witnesses have refused to step forward with information because the street code forbids “snitching,” or talking to police...
...BUSTA RHYMES THE BIG BANG With his ferocious bark and split-timed delivery, Rhymes has always been two-thirds of a great rapper. The missing ingredient--a single deep thought--has been elusive, although on his seventh album he at least gives it a shot. The lyrics ("See the facts that I'm trying to strive and capitalize/ And start to maxima-mize and bu-build and enter-terprise") are passable, but what lingers is energetic drop-bys from Stevie Wonder and the late Rick James (in a final cameo) and window-rattling production from...