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Black Eyed Peas bring hip-hop to campus
Posted Monday, November 15 2004 02:57:56 am in The Daily Colonial
By Riki ParikhMetro Editor
Hip-hop music was celebrated Sunday night at the Smith Center as the Black Eyed Peas’ world tour traveled through Washington toward the end of its run. The tour is promoting their latest album “Elephunk,” which features the hits “Hey Mama,” and “Let’s Get it Started.”
“It’s an honor and a privilege to be with you tonight,” said band member Taboo, “celebrating hip hop music.”
The group started the concert with older hits from their first two albums. “You were destined to see us?” Taboo asked a member of the audience. “Well, we were destined to take you back. So we’re going to take you back to 1998,” he said, as he segued into the band’s songs from the albums “Behind the Front,” and “Bridging the Gap.”
The crowd fed off the energy of the four members of the Peas, who began to breakdance during their songs as the fans cheered to a deafening scream. During the performance, the group dropped in “G-Dubs” into their songs, as a shout-out to the college students. At one point, each band member freestyled, using “G-Dubs” as their base line.
The headliner was ushered in by the West Coast hip-hop group Wylde Boyz, who introduced themselves to the Peas’ fans.
Fifty minutes into the show, the band asked the audience to applaud the band and then said goodnight. The fans, however, were not ready to go as they continued to clap, ushering in the scheduled encore as the band returned to the stage. The encore began with a flute and guitar duet followed by a jam session between the guitar, saxophone and trumpet players. The second-act featured songs from their latest album, including the popular anti-war song “Where is the Love?”
Will.I.Am, the main singer of the group, used the song as an opportunity to speak to the young people about the latest election. After asking the crowd for whom they cast their vote, he acknowledged that he voted for Democrat John Kerry, but that it did not matter anymore. “Right now,” he said, “we cannot boo the president. We have to unite.”
He urged the crowd, though, to continue to stay involved and told the Kerry supporters to keep thinking about 2008. “Young people are gonna rule,” he said of the next election.
The band finished with their most popular song to date, the unedited “Let’s Get Retarded.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA It's like too good to be made up.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 23 September 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)
Great quote. Really illuminating.
This is all it says about the opener.
Fifty minutes into the show, the band asked the audience to applaud the band and then said goodnight. The fans, however, were not ready to go as they continued to clap, ushering in the scheduled encore as the band returned to the stage.
Wow, you don't say.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)
http://www.dailycardinal.com/media/paper439/news/2003/01/27/Arts/Offstage.Headley.Off.The.Mark-352233.shtml
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 September 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)
Predictably, our school's articles were things like "who the hell are the Black Eyed Peas" and "why can't we book anyone we've heard of, blah blah".
― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 23 September 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Friday, 23 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)
OMG GENERIC CROWD GREETING! STONE THE INFIDEL!
― The Ghost of Unfounded Smugness Is So Not Hot (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)
THE ARISTOCRATS TO THREAD.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 23 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
Panhandlers pushing patience on College Avenue Letter Laura Schneebacher Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: Opinions
Panhandlers, or people who beg for money, are frequently on College Avenue. These people tend to target students, perhaps because students seem the most vulnerable. From time to time, while walking to and from class, students get bothered by beggars. Many seem to feel that people living in poverty and asking for spare change is heartbreaking. However, it is distracting in a learning environment. Also, most college students are poor themselves.
The University police should not allow citizens to beg for money on College Avenue. The mission of the Rutgers University Police Department is not only to prevent crime and keep the University safe, but it needs to also maintain a valuable community experience between students and the citizens of New Brunswick.
Through a personal experience, this became a huge problem for me one day when I was literally hassled. I was followed down the street by a man until I had to take my wallet out, open it up and physically show the beggar that I had no paper money or change on me. Although I want to help these people out as much as the next person, I rarely have cash. It frightened me because the guy was really close to me and, at first, was not taking no for an answer. I did not think I was in danger. It was just really agitating having to put up with people like him when I'm trying to live on my own for the first time in my life. I felt it was unfair I had to defend myself so dramatically and was not protected from this better. After he finally stopped walking beside me, I realized he was relatively harmless. I just couldn't get rid of this stressful, pestered feeling I had. This was an extreme case, but nonetheless, one experienced by me and should be squashed by campus police.
This was the fourth time so far this semester a non-student and full-grown adult has asked me for money. I'm aware College Avenue is a part of New Brunswick and every citizen has a right to walk down it, however, this is an issue that minimizes the quality of campus life. It is also unsettling for parents to find out their child gets hassled for money from time to time. The New Brunswick community and the campus community are two very different places. The RUPD should prohibit and truly exercise its use of authority against loitering and panhandling in or near University facilities and on College Avenue.
Laura Schneebacher is a Livingston College junior, majoring in journalism and media studies.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)
I felt it was unfair I had to defend myself
"The real world literally hassled me on my way to class one day. WTF, College?!"
― Kerm, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
A person complaining about getting hassled by panhandlers on College Ave. is like a person complaining about how crowded New York is.
It just happens. And god forbid Laura's mom and dad find out that, at 1) the largest state university in the NYC area 2) on the campus closest to New Jersey Transit and 3) with the greatest density of student population, a homeless person berates a college girl for some cash.
If you want an ivory tower, there are many, many places that are more removed from their respective communities than the College Ave. campus of Rutgers is. I lived ON College Ave. for two years, and on that campus for all four years that I was there. Homeless people be around. Deal with it.
Ugh. Naive little undergrads. How tough their worlds really are.
― B.L.A.M., Monday, 15 October 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)