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...identify the local artists who are positive,” Mwase said, adding that he often sends recordings of his favorite Massive performances to The Source magazine, a national publication founded as a WHRB newsletter in 1988 by DJs David M. Mays ’90 and Jon M. Shecter ’90. Although the show already has several performers lined up, Felton and Jacoby encourage aspiring freestylers to compete free of charge. “The Darker Side” can be heard Saturdays 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and Sundays...
Mays and his friend, Jon M. Shecter ’90, hosted a hip-hop show on WHRB during their years at Harvard (a show that was cancelled, but brought back this semester—see story below), and in 1988, they began putting out a newsletter to accompany it—under the title of “Street Beat.” The name was changed, Shecter was fired, and the rest is history...
This makes for some interesting distinctions in the group's audience. Timothy White, editor of Billboard, thinks N.W.A.'s attraction for white male teens is "danger at a safe distance." Jon Shecter, the Harvard-educated editor of The Source, a monthly journal of hip-hop culture, points out that although "it's a cool status symbol among white kids to like and identify with N.W.A., most of the black community doesn't like them. There's a lot of positive, intelligent rap out there, and N.W.A. is negative to the extreme...
...otherwise lackluster year. HarvAid brought Pete Seeger and many too-rarely-seen folk artists to Sanders Theatre for a two-night divestment benefit. The Din and Tonics gave away free gewgaws, such as cheap toys and cans of WD-40, to everyone in their Sanders audience. Sophomore Jonathan Shecter started a rap group, B.M.O.C., and released a single about Harvard that showed surprising candor about his creative motivations: "I'm a Harvard undergrad, a scholarly scholar/And I'm using rap music to make me dollars." Musically, these events weren't much to crow over, but their perpetrators deserve kudos...
...John M. Shecter '90, who appears as Jon, is the lead singer of BMOC, a rap group that recently recorded the single, "Guaranteed to Rock," with a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. He could not be reached for comment yesterday...