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While the crowd waited, Master of Ceremonies Mark A. Price '98 and council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97 stalled for time by challenging each other to rap and dance. Many students seemed amused by Hyman's dancing abilities...
Hyman and Price also joked with the crowd, alluding to the recent randomization debate. Price composed his own rap with the lines: "If I'm paying, I should decide where I'm staying...
...President Rob Hyman didn't make you want to leave Spring Fest, then the pedestrian performance of the Pharcyde almost certainly did. From the moment they finally ran on stage, Imani, Booty Brown, Fatlip, and Slimkid 3 sang nothing as interesting or impressive as the two Harvard-based freestyle rap groups that opened up for them...
Pretty much since then, black artists who wanted to play rock 'n' roll--as opposed to pop, or doo-wop, or soul music, or funk, or disco, or rap--have had a hard time getting a hearing from the music industry, which, thanks to its perceived marketing needs, tends to pigeonhole artists in "black" and "white" slots. The irony, of course, is that while white artists like the Rolling Stones are exalted for their borrowings from black music, black artists who try to reclaim the now predominantly white classic-rock tradition are often met with industry indifference, if not hostility...
ANOTHER BAD RAP...