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Ice Cube's Posse on their own
Da Lenchmob
Guerillas in The Mist
Street Knowledge /
Eastwest Records
Liam Q'Mahon
The Collegian
Ice Cube's first project on his
new record label, Street
Knowledge, is not one to be
overlooked or passed by as
another "gangsta" rap album.
His "posse" from his early days
as a solo artist, 'Da Lenchmob,'
take the spotlight on their debut
album, "Guerillas in the Mist."
Ice Cube produced the album
and sings a few cameos on
various tracks. Da Lenchmob is
T-Bone, J-Dee, and Shorty, and
they don't play around. Their
lyrics cut straight to the point,
although not always a positive
point; they can't be ignored.
The album opens to a track
outlining the ugly history of
capital punishment in America.
It talks about the previous
existence of public lynching in
various states, as well as me
various methods still in
existence today.
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"Buck the Devil" and "You
and Your Heroes" are their
answers to white America's
tiresome heroes and habits. In
"You and Your Heroes" they put
down all of the white "heroes"
of the past and present including
George Washington, Babe Ruth,
Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe,
Larry Bird, and Madonna
The rest of "Guerillas in the
Mist" has some funky tracks
backed with angry lyrics that
won't be easily forgotten. They
aren’t nice, but they command
respect from the underground
world of hip-hop. They show
sensitivity towards human pain
and suffering on "Lord Have
Mercy," a slower song that asks
for help in life and death in
violence-torn South Central
L.A.
Da Lenchmob is currently
touring with the Rolling Band
and the Beastie Boys. The tour
stops in Toronto on November
2, and this reviewer will be
there to see it.
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Accepting the truth As I
by Victoria Sousa
The Collegian
When you hear the word AIDS,
what is the first word that comes
to mind? Homosexual? Drug
Users? Punishment? Illness?
Contagious? Blame? What
about words like: abandonment,
loneliness, seclusion, anger, and
fear? What happens to these
words when a person discovers
someone they know has AIDS?
“One of the frightening things
about AIDS is that a death from
AIDS is a very difficult death. It
tends to be lonely, because many
people who are diagnosed with
AIDS lose family and
friends...insurance companies run
out on them. It tends to be
emotionally, physically, and
mentally devastating.” says Dr.
Kathleen Campbell, the director
of the Matchbox Players’
production of At Is .
The play focuses around the
relationship of two gay men,
Rich and Saul, and what they
both go through when Rich is
diagnosed with AIDS. Campbell
explains, “It’s a play about
loving someone and reaching out
to someone in spite of fear, in
spite of anger, and in spite of
death. It’s very hard to love
someone you know you’re going
to lose.”
“What especially concerns us is
that, while most of the cases of
AIDS still are people identified as
male homosexuals or IV drug
users, the fastest growing
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appears arc teenagers and
women.” comments Campbell.
“So the epidemic is quickly
becoming an equal opportunity
disease.”
“AIDS is a disease that kills
sexual or whatever else, it’s not
something to make light of. It’s
a deadly disease and nobody
deserves to die from it.” adds
Vincent Smith, who plays. Ri'dfJ
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with a type of dark humor.
Stephen Daniel, who plays Saul
agrees, “We can’t deal with
crises like this in life without a
touch of humor or not taking an
entirely serious viewpoint about
things.”
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encouragement from faculty last
Spring when she told them about
her idea of doing an AIDS related
play. “1 think in some way,
theater “has s.'bettcrc’baice of
shifting peoples’ thoughts,
because it’s about human beings
and it addresses the problem on
the level of real human beings
and human relationships.”
She adds, “I’d like them [the
audience] to get the fact that this
is serious. HIV is serious. AIDS
is serious and they’re at risk. It’s
not just Saul and Rich and a lot
of gay men. If they don’t make a
shift in perception about gay life
or gay men and their
responsibilities, at least maybe
they’ll get that their own
behavior matters.”
“I really wish that this will be
a mind broadening experience for
many of the people who perhaps
came from a bit of a more
sheltered or provincial back
ground,” says Daniel. “It’s proba
bly the best play Kathleen has
directed and put on so far; and I
know they’re just going to get
better.”
As Is also stars, playing
multiple roles, Daniel Ester,
Dennis Dressier, William J.
Russell, Kirk Douglas Riffcr,
Shoshana Heyler-Connor, and
Heather M. Fetcko.
As Is will be performed in
the Studio Theater on November
5,6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 8:00 p.m.;
and November 8, and 15 at 2:30
p.m. Tickets are $4.00, with a
$l.OO discount for Behrend
Students. For reservations or
more information, call 898-6061.
Discussions after some
performances and information on
AIDS, local health aigencies, safe
sex, and high risk behaviors will
be available after all
performances.
Though As Is doesn’t have
any sexually explicit scenes, it
contains language that some
people may find offensive.