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...have our coats on and we??re outside, in a parking lot, on the cement. A block away there’s a circle of heads passing cigarettes around and nodding. Dave begins to beatbox. Rubin begins to rap. The rest of us are dancing. I’m beatboxing. Rubin is good, actually. He was always a performer, even in basketball. Here, Rubin is in his element...
...walking around campus, all dudes, hands jammed in pockets. There is a castle—built in the ’70s as a dorm—that we head for, to climb to the top. They’d never done it. We??re on the ramparts, and there’s a staircase weaving around the tower. There are turrets. We discuss places where Rubin and Dave can have their first concert: out a window, above the portcullis. This is the realest castle we??ve ever seen...
...We??re back in Rubin’s room, we??re beatboxing some more, there are fliers on all the walls: The Roots’ “Phrenology,” Talib Kweli, “Grindhouse,” “No Country for Old Men,” a fake copy of The New York Times with the headline “Iraq War Ends.” There’s a book on the shelf called “Cinema Now.” We eat crackers and hummus while...
...below-ground room and turn the lights off, the bass up loud: me sitting on the couch, Rubin on piano, Dave drumming with something or another, me talking about how they’re going to make it big someday, bigger even than NBA stardom. Or else we??ll go to a room somewhere in the castle where they’ll have music on and everyone will bob their heads and bend their knees...
...have eliminated every problem [from 2007],” he said. “We are trying to express as earnestly as we can how far we??ve come in terms of being transparent and having a system that students can trust...