Word: rahzel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While Lauren Epstein struggles with such trivialities, student activity planners at other schools are dealing with enviably bigger questions—like whether their president’s $70,000 contribution would be enough to help pay for all their headlining acts, or whether the Shins and beat-boxer Rahzel were too different to bill on the same stage...
...problem: funding. This year, Yale’s Spring Fling will feature not only The Shins and Rahzel, but also O.A.R., performances by student bands, an outdoor barbecue, and booze. For the Yale College Council (YCC), the Bulldogs’ UC equivalent, the weekend comes with a price tag of $110,000—almost exactly the cost of Harvard’s day-time Springfest activities...
...group--Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter, drummer Ahmir (?uestlove) Thompson, keyboardist Kamal Gray, bassist Leonard (Hub) Hubbard, vocal percussionists Kyle (Scratch) Jones and Rozell (Rahzel) Brown [not pictured] and Malik (Malik B.) Abdul-Bassit--is time tested. In various incarnations, they have been together since 1987. When you see ?uestlove with his big Afro behind the drum kit, you know you're going to get a good show...
...Master found himself substantially upstaged by the self proclaimed Godfather of Noyze, Rahzel, the human beat box of Philadelphia's legendary Roots crew. Fresh off the release of his millennial album, Make the Music 2000, Rahzel's performance made modern technology, and DJs like Mike, look purely superfluous. Who needs turntables, after all, when you've got someone who can loop James Brown and scratch KRS-One's "Step Into a World" with his mouth and a microphone? And why limit yourself to music? In addition to crowd pandering chants like "Where my weed smokers at?" Rahzel...
Long before closing time, the Mix Master ceded his set to a freestyle free-for-all that proved to be a second highlight. Canadian MC Choclair, blatantly pushing all things Toronto in his Raptors jersey, offered some quality pro-Canadian rhymes over Black Rob's "Like Whoa," and Rahzel continued to amaze, though his freestyle abilities are clearly an order of magnitude weaker than his skills as the human beat...