Art & Style
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Rebel
Thursday, March 10, 2016
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Without A Pause...
She is the diabolical duchess of
the Roc-A-Fella Family, her latest
release has created critical and
commercial controversy and
could not be more aptly titled ...
Words: Jade Boykins
F.L. Sandle Theater
final play of season
takes us even higher
TERRANCE LEWIS JR.
The Gramblinite
R
ihanna has
definitely risen
to the top of
the charts once
again with her
latest album. The entire album
is a mixture of the pop music
she is famous for but also the
Bad Gal RiRi she has come
to be known as. The pop star
had so many delays and didn’t
have a solid date on her album
release, Anti, that it almost
seemed as if there would
be no album at all. Since we
now know it is real, Rihanna’s
eighth LP is now known as a
sprawling masterpiece. The
build up for the album was
extraordinary. Since it’s been
a full three years since her
last album, Unapologetic, she
definitely came back with a
bang and had a lot to say in
her latest album. Her previous albums have normally
been formulated and built
around peaks. This album is
different simply because all
of her songs flow together
due to smooth transitions. For
example, the transitions from
“Desperado” to “Woo” to
“Needed Me” all sound like
a collection of fun, carefree
music; a great description for
the island girl. “James Joint”
is a song that pretty much describes the marijuana-smoking
bad girl as she portrays herself
on social media.
The album screams independence. “I got to do things
my own way, darling,” she
announced over a shuttering,
distorted beat in the opening
of “Consideration,” collaboration with R&B singer, Sza.
The most popular and most
played song is the dance hall
song “Work” featuring the
singer, Drake. It just proves
that the pop star is still a hitmaker and still makes her way
to the charts. “Kiss It Better”
is a song that puts you in the
mind of “Purple Rain” with a
funky beat of its own. “Woo”
is a 70s rock interpretation
of a bad trip under backlight.
“I been feening on the yayo,”
“ain’t nothin’ left to talk
about.” In the hit “Higher,”
she describes how she had
been holding it together until
she eventually broke. “I just
wanna go back to my old
ways,” “but I’m drunk and
still with a full ashtray, with
a little bit too much to say.”
Questions
T
1. Was Rick Jackson fired?
2. Why can’t the SGRhos
have more than three
pledges?
3. How many butterflies
didn’t make the Delta line?
4. Why was Dr. Larkin at the
Delta probate?
5. How many people are
tired of these stroll-offs?
6. Who really runs the yard?
7. Distinguished Black
Women or Delta-Bound
Women?
8. When will the men’s
basketball team have a
winning season?
9. Where are the voting
polls?
10. How many self-hating
Blacks are voting for
Trump?
11. Did the rain save us from
being unprepared for mid-
W
E
N
T
Y
terms?
12. How many people still
have refund money?
13. When is The Gramblinite
going to have more than
four pages?
14. Will we have a complete
Divine Nine in the fall?
15. Why did LaTech have a
Black History Week and
Grambling didn’t even
have a program?
16. Is Periscope going to
replace Snapchat?
17. Which three girls aren’t
going to get a month in
the 2016-2017 calendar?
18. When will the DJ Twins
get new, better music?
19. When will Black Dynasty,
Strut LA and Poise stop
swapping models?
20. Who went swimming at
JTS on Tuesday night?
DISCLAIMER: 20 Questions is intended for ENTERTAINMENT
PURPOSES ONLY. Those who can’t take a joke need not read!!!
Getty Images/Christopher Polk
Rihanna with Anti album artist Roy Nachum.
The song ends unresolved
and leaves listeners clueless.
“Yeah I Said It,” is a co-written and co-produced song
with producer Timbaland
that brings out the promiscuous side of proclaimed
“good girl gone bad.”
Over these past few years
Rihanna’s style and taste of
music has definitely evolved
with each album. She started
out as this adorable, innocent
Island girl from Barbados
trying to make her way in
the American music industry.
Throughout her music career
she left behind her “SOS”
sound which gave a young,
enthusiastic vibe to being
a good girl that turned bad.
After dealing with heartbreak
and life in general, Ri began
to show a little emotion
and her sexy side as she
became this “bad girl.” It
even shows how the super
star has changed throughout
the decade she’s been in the
game! From all of the public
relationships and breakups,
publicly smoking marijuana
and even singing about it
throughout her newest album
Anti, and even her sexual side
even more as well.
For Black History
Month, the Grambling State
University Department of
Visual and Performing Arts
presented The Mountaintop,
directed by Karl V. Norman.
This play was full of
thoughts that moved Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. on
that catastrophic last day of
his life, in Room 306 of the
now famous Lorraine Motel
in Memphis, Tennessee. The
original actors of the play
when it first debuted were
Samuel L. Jackson and costar Angela Bassett.
Grambling Performing
Arts is very sincere in creating momentous theatrical
plays that give the audience a
feel for the acts that go on in
Floyd L. Sandle Theater.
The Mountaintop play was
prompt April 4, 1968 first
premiered, with characters
Dr. Martin Luther King and
Camae.
The play not only captured the audience’s attention
in the deposition of King’s
assassination, but gave a
comical experience at that.
It was set in the same setting but never lost the audience. One cannot fathom the
steps it took to walk in his
shoes. The play really created
MLK’s thoughts, conveyed
from Adarian Demonte’ Williams, who played Dr. King.
His friend leaves to