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Dr.Dre
“The Chronic”
Dr. Dre
Interscope Records
“I Am What I Am”
YB
Savage Records
Some may think that rap is a lim
ited form of music, but thousands of
mi les separate these two new releases.
While Dr. Dre, who has just released
his solodebut “The Chronic,”came to
us “Straight Outta Compton” with his
former group NWA, new face YB
(short for “youngblood”) comes to us
straight outta Copenhagen, as in the
capital ol Denmark. *
YB’s hometown may not be a hip
hop mecca, but his debut album, “I
Am What I Am,” actually has its
moments. The music is the most inter
esting thing about it, laying a smooth,
jazzy, European dance vibe over hard
core bcaLs. Lyrically, however, YB
doesn’t have too much to say, and his
pop-soul crossover approach wears
thin before too long.
I will eivc him this — he’s easily
Courtesy of Savage Records
YB
the best rapper I’ve ever heard from
Copenhagen.
Dr. Drc’s “The Chronic” is more
like it as far as hard-core hip-hop is
concerned.
The music is slow, thick, West
Coast funk, guaranteed to gel your s
head nodding. The subject matter
won’t be anything new to NWA fans,
but Drc has an ace in the hole to
breathe life into his foul-mouthed
gangsta fairytales, a rapper named
Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Snoop first appeared last year on
Drc’s popular single “Deep Cover,”
and he’s all over ‘The Chronic,” de
livering humorous, laid-back rhymes
in his truly unique voice.
So, while YB shows us that rap can
come from faraway places, Dr. Dre
reminds us that it’s still better off
when it comes from the shores where
it originated. Still, YB docs have po
tential; maybe his next release will
help pul unlikely places like
Copenhagen on the hip-hop map.
—- Matt Silcock
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Courtesey of Big Beat Records
Goddess
“The Sexual Album
Goddess
Big Beat Records
With the rise of Industrial and
Techno music, just plain dance music
has seemed to have gotten lost in the
shuffle. Goddess is here to prove that
dance music is still here and not to be
forgotten.
“The Sexual Album” is strictly
dance music — this is an LP that you
will not put on without wanting to
dance to it.
It opens with “Sexual,” a guitar
driven cut packing a lot of energy.
Add in the narration by Rick-O-Chct
and this tunc is happening. This cut
serves as a hint as to what this LP is al I
about.
“Lingerc” is a tunc that comes at
the listener with force and energy
right from the beginning. This cut is
probably one of the best. Goddess
gets a high level of energy flowing
through her music, and this makes
what she does work for her.
Goddess makes good use of her
backgrounds. She uses various types
of music forms ranging from electric
and acoustic guitars to electric violin
and voice narration. This fact is no
more evident than on the track
“Cleopatra,” which is a track driven
by its various backgrounds.
— Anthony Speights
\ \3N~L presents free weekend events
From Staff Reports
There’s always something to do
in the Big City. Here arc a few
things to do this weekend.
Free stuff:
The Nebraska University Ma
laysian Student Association
(NUMSA) will sponsor a Chinese
New Year celebration Saturday at
8 p.m. in the Culture Center. The
celebration will feature a potluck
dinner and musical presentations.
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No cover.
In a show that opened Iasi Sun
day, ihc Cooper Foundation Gal
r lery in Morrill Hall fcalurcs“Phan
toms of the N ighl: The Moth Paint
ings of John Cody.” The show also
includes photos and specimens. See
Nebraska giant silk moths as big as
your face! The exhibit can be
viewed during regular museum
hours.
And if you get snowed in on
Saturday, be sure to tunc into Ne
braska Public Radio at 11 a.m. to
hear the Metropolitan Opera series
and “Die Meistersinger von
Nurnberg” by Wagner.
Thai’s it for free stuff this week
end. Here arc some cheap events:
Thcatrix presents “Beyond the
Horizon,” a collection of original
modem and jazz works by senior
dance majors in the Howell The
atre of the Temple Building on
Saturday at 8 p.m. The cost is $2.
The Mueller Planetarium offers
“The Best of Pink Floyd” laser
light and music show Saturday and
Sunday at 7,9 and 11 p.m. All seals
arc S5.
Lincoln’s Community Play
house Children’s Theater will
present “Hallelujah Hopscotch”
today and Saturday at 7 p.m. and
Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The 2
p.m. show will be interpreted for
the hearing impaired. Tnc cost is
$8.
And the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts offers Philippe
Entrcmoni conducting the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra today at 8 p.m.
Tickets arc S26, S22 and SI8 —
half price for students.
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Audrey Hepburn dies
of colon cancer at home
TOLOCHENAZ, Switzerland
(AP) — Audrey Hepburn, the elegant
waif who won filmgocrs’ hearts be
fore going on to travel the world in T
shirt, khakis and sneakers working for
needy children, has died at age 63.
Hepburn, who had undergone co
lon cancer surgery last year, died
Wednesday at her home in this small
village on the shores of Lake Geneva,
according to a relative who answered
the door at the residence.
Hepburn, with her high cheek
bones, doc eyes and ravishing el
egance, charmed the world as a ren
egade young princess seeking a taste
of normal life in Rome — an Oscar
winning performance in “Roman
Holiday” in 1953.
She became a UNICEF goodwill
ambassador in 1986 and traveled for
the United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund until
1992, visiting camps of starving So
malis in Kenya and Somalia in Sep
tember.
As a child, she had hcrscl f received
help from the agency after surviving
the last winter of World War II in
Holland on a diet of mostly turnips.
“I’ve never known anything about
politics,” she said in a 1990 Associ
ated Press interview. “I just care ter
ribly because I saw so much as a child
about suffering and the suffering of
children.”
UNICEF said funeral services
would be held in Tolochcnaz on Sun
day.
History, lifestyles of Native Americans
depicted in semester-long film series
From Staff Reports
This weekend the Mary Riepma
Ross Film Theater will offer the
first of a series of films in a retro
spective of 16 years of the Native
American Public Broadcasting
Consortium (NAPBC).
The first films, “Apache Moun
tain Spirits” and “Children of the
Long-Beaked Bird," will be shown
Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 11
a.m.
(NAPBC) Retrospective
Jan. 21-23: “Apache Mountain
Spirits,” “Children of the Long
Beaked Bird”
Jan. 28-30: “Distant Voices. . .
Thunder Words," “Eyes of the
Spirit”
Feb. 4-6: “Earthshapers,”
“Gannagaro,” “Gifts of Santa Fc,”
“Hitsatsinom—The Ancient Ones”
Feb. 11-13: “Hulcctlc-Koyukon
Memorial Potlatch," “John Kim
Bell”
Feb. 18-20: “Journey to the Sky,"
“Live and Remember”
Feb. 25-27: “Menominee,” “Mi
norities in Agriculture — The
Winnebago”
March 4-6: “Nations Within a Na
tion,” “Ncz Perce — Portrait of a
People”
March 11-13: “People of the Ma
con Plateau,” “Pueblo People’s First
Encounters,” “Return of the Raven
— The Edison Chiloquin Story”
March 18-20: “Seasons of a Na
vajo,” “Songs in Minto Life”
March 25-27: “The Real People"
Program 1 (“A Season of Grand
mothers”), Program 2 (“Circle of
Song. Part 1”), Program 3 (“Circle
ol Sone, Part 2")
April 1-3: “The Real People” Pro
gram 4 (“Mainstream”), Program 5
(“A wakening”). Program 6 rSpirit
of the Wind”)
April 8-10: “The Real Pcopla” Pro
gram 7 (“Buffalo, Blood, Salmon,
& Roots”), Program 8 (“Legend of
the Stick Game”), Program 9
(“Words of Life — People of Riv
ers”)
April 15-17: “The New Pcquot: A
Tribal Portrail,”“ThcSun Dagger”
April 22-24: “They Never Asked
Our Fathers,” “Red Road — To
ward the Techno-Tribal"
April 29-May 1: “Warriors,”
“Woonspc (Education and the
Sioux)”