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...black community, while the second part tells the story of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur's life. The lyrics of part one of "What Must I do Now?" are extremely powerful: "What must I do now/be your jester/fight your wars/pimp your women/be your whore/write the same songs I've sung before," wails Smith in anger before he changes venues and launches into a description of the black community as ." ..Wonderful/so beautiful/the ways we try to dull the pain." The lyrics seem almost to flow more like poetry than music...
...with the day that Shakur was born to a motherwho was just released from prison. The song goeson to speak about Shakur's growing up fast,because of the absence of his father and hismother's drug addiction. This part of "What must Ido now" has a haunting bridge, sung by McGhee,which really makes it stand out. However, thesecond half of the song does not completelycanonize Shakur, but rather shows his dual nature,as both a hero and a criminal. "Are you arevolutionary/are you playing thug/are you all thecontradictions/...well the truth is that youalways like to play with...
...covers, "Yesterday" and "Beyond the Sea," sung in the styles of the originals, fit the style of the album well and are sung beautifully. While the Wets don't add much to the originals, they do the songs justice, which is more than can be said for many adaptations of originally superior tunes...
...department also failed to report the Aug. 1arrest of Sung Hoon Cho in its public log on theInternet, although the arrest was reported inHUPD's official log. HUPD has since removed theunofficial log from its Web site...
TIME has stood witness to the greater part of the most remarkable century in history. Perhaps more than any other publication, it has watched, wept and sung about the extraordinary people and events of the past 75 years. This week, as we celebrate our birthday, we pay tribute not only to those people and events but also to the varied, vivid form they have taken in our pages...