Word: shecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Jane, John Shecter and Felicia Phillips give some of the best performances in this rap musical. Rapmaster Shecter, one of the few experienced members of the cast, is a member of the group BMOC. His single, "Guaranteed to Rock," produced by Nile Rogers, has already risen to No. 13 on the British pop chart. Shecter, who has nailed all the gesticulations and the rhyme schemes, has no problems with the rap numbers...
With a West Side Story plot set in Harvard Square, the two lovers now become the thoroughly hip couple of Jon (John M. Shecter) and Jane (Felicia D. Phillips). In this contemporary setting, the strict hierarchy of the fashion gangs prevents their union. Jon suffers the misfortune of coming from the wrong label family. His J. August sweats look provincial next to the latest Armani and Williwear fashions that the Cambridge gang members sport...
...Shecter, who did his first rapping on a radiostation in Philadelphia, works at WHRB, Harvard'sradio station. He runs a show called "Street Beat"with his roommate Go-go Dave (alias David M. Mays'90) on Fridays from 10 p.m. to midnight. Shecteris also acting in the play Gang's NewThreads, a rap musical to be staged inLeverett House February...