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TAMU Career Center 845-5139 209 Koldus http://careercenter.tamu.edu A place to meet your next employer Page 6A AGGIELIFE the battalion Bridging the Gap Black Eyed Peas CD Courtesy of Interscope Records The CD’s name (Bridging the Gap ) is meant to represent the Black Eyed Peas’ attempt to fuse hip-hop music with its jungle and trip-hop offspring, said lead rapper will i. am. “I’m trying to bridge the gap to those closed-minded people who think hip-hop is only a certain way because they have just been listen ing to it for so long,” will i. am said. “They fell in love with it when it was about gun-toting.” The Black Eyed Peas have dedi cated their latest album to showing a new side to hip-hop, and they suc ceeded. This album combines clas sic, downtempo hip-hop tracks with Latin ballad introductions, ’70s funk guitar riffs and cameos by some of the genre’s hottest rappers. The CD includes cameos by De La Soul, Mos Def and Wyclef, among others. “LiL Lil',” the sixth track on the album, combines a hard, but slow, vocal style with music suited to a lounge singer and backing vocals that would not be out of place in an Earth. Wind and Fire song. While it might seem as though these competing ele ments would sound ter rible together, they combine to make one of the best tracks that will never be heard on the radio. “On My Own” is an excellent track w'ith slightly dark background music that sounds more like a slow Wu Tang song than one would expect from Black Eyed Peas. The Paper Route Mack 10 CD Courtesy of Priority Records Enhanced CDs are meant to provide the listener with a view intoThe musicians’ lives and perhaps give them a glimpse of some unreleased video material. Mack 10’s new CD, The Paper Route, does exactly that. Including videos for the tracks “Tight to Def’ and “From tha Streetz,” this CD gives buyers a chance to see the videos before they hit mainstream rotation on MTl p res hman ps’ However, the real gem of this CD is the interviews w' attaches spot Mack 10 and Ice Cube. These take the viewer behindp hammered b the scenes and show how the artists really feel aboui!||c ac j e ts mem and, specifically, their own music. The music is classic West Coast gangsta’ rap, straight from the mold created by Dr. Dre and comp Mack 10 manages to do a decent job with it. and mini ous all-star cameos do not hurt. Westside Connectioar Timbaland, Too Short and T-Boz are among the Who' Who of rap who appear on this album. /ORPS Continued Bailin’ at an alt time Cr*n*h*w high for 18 and over Xtrtp SWtocft 10 THE PAPER ROU SJ8B8WJ9S EVERYBODY'S PAPER/MACK 10.COM — T E rum* Hollywood JLMJMM [I = instant classic B = a = don't buy it F = burn in effigy “Tight to Del" and “From tha Street/" are excelk >ro_gram, and thi tracks and their accompanying videos heighten their P- Another meet peal. Unfortunately, this CD gets old quickly. The sol scheduled tenta does not vary from beginning to end. ■Currently, ties By the time the listener gets to the eighth and ninl 010 ca< dets ate r tracks of the album, he or she should be thoroughly F IK jb 1 mn, r 1 tired of the sound. “Pop X,” the eighth song, is the .^ louls ^ lct worst track on the album. The introduction aloneiss^ 1 no . in c " l! l hackneyed it could make even the most die-hard ^ n . < T f a .v m y 1 gangsta^ rap fan vomit. SichSom “Keep it Gangsta’,” the ninth track, is only m v a ‘C j better, and the album does not return to a decentsouniL' 11 ^ until the last track of the album — which is onlysavaffr . ., ^ 7 , 1 by the appearance of Techniec and Ice Cube. Unfortu- D| . nately, the album manages to crash and burn a g a i nal jjLvost for und end of this song by going into an obnoxious refraintl# anis anc j acac i ei i should never have been allowed onto the album. ^ AOC was not (Grade: C) dls on the cadets — Jason Benny not approach t persor cut above C = average^» Aggies??? QoCden ‘TQtv National HonoC Society General Meeting Tuesday, September 26 th Koldus 110 @ 9 p.m. for members and those interested Free food and refreshments!! WOW! dents can study \ Tpe of environmt [“Each studeni feming styles, an f studying may leir needs,” he lid he hopes to c GREAT JEWELRY S GIFTS ^ h the ^ 0I T^ FROM AROUND THE WORLD .Del and the AOC. I J° e Wagner, ek JieN.BryanAw.o ^ ^ - 0 - - Downtown Btyin / . 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