38 CommentsThe god Rumor has spoken: Ghostface Killah will be playing the
annual Bacchanal concert this Saturday, 2:00 pm on Low Steps. Ghostface, the Wu Tang Clan member whose most recent album Fishcale debuted this month
at #4 on the Billboard charts, has emerged since his 1996 solo debut as the group’s most consistently innovative lyricist.
In the meantime, enjoy your Wu Name.
(Warning: The generator has a margin of error. Enter “Dennis Coles,” Ghostface’s given name, and what do you get? “Tha Visible Choirboy.”)
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@ryan zimmerman And I had three RBIs today
True, Dylan is still alive, and hopefully coming this way on tour
@robert zimmerman hey shitheads i’m still alive still good and still a golden god to all of you — bob d.
@Bwog comments Are as bad as B@B, as long as the topic is music. Can’t we all just agree to stalk [name redacted] and get on with it?
@Oops I meant heers, not here’s.
@J. Last time I checked, Stevie Wonder was still alive. So fuck all y’all; the free concert should involve some serious funkification.
@B-town “Spongebob in the Bentley Coupe / Bangin’ the Isley’s” – “Underwater”
@YAY I am “Spunky misunderstood genius” !!! BE JEALOUS!!!
@BigRoger Fall Out Boy > all of you who have posted
@yo Fuck ya’ll
@Postal Service Aren’t those the guys who deliver letters and packages and stuff? I wasn’t aware they made music
@seriously rap is the musical movement of our generation. if you don’t like it, at least appreciate it; it’s really the only pop-genre in which relatively original stuff is being recorded. our parents had dylan, we have ghostface.
i like “indie” rock as much as the next pseudo-hipster, but i recognize that it’s all pretty obviously recycled.
also: the postal service is arguably not even really a band (do your research)and fall out boy objectively SUCKS.
@Er That’s not a good way to define “band.” But Fallout Boy does suck.
But rap is a generation old, and not that many people like it.
@Errr To say that rap that is being recorded today is original is wack. At a cartain point there was original rap and there are original rappers on the margins today. But most of the rap one here’s today is the same old recycled funk or soul beats and the weak ass, uninspired lyrics. Ghostface certainly doesn’t fall into that category, but his heyday was before we had pubes.
@Enough of this shit, please He killed ghostface, and he’ll probably kill all of you who are assholes BECAUSE HE CAN AND BECAUSE YOU ARE ASSHOLES, so watch yo back.
@ghost not washed up Fishscale was an excellent album, Pretty Toney was a very good album, Put It On The Line was good as well. He may get overlooked but Ghostface is by no means washed up, and also puts on great concerts (example: his last NY solo concert). I have no interest whatsoever in seeing Bono or some bullshit like that.
@how about …we get Jeffrey Sachs to call in a favor with Bono…
@yes! It just makes so much sense. Oh, and the Brangelina baby should pop out on the chorus to “Beautiful Day.”
@i vote we dig up 3 of the 4 ramones and have a new york themed non wuss concert
@right If you look at most of the free big concerts on campus hip hop has dominated. The majority of the school really has no interest, and those representatives of the majority who end up going to the concert only do so because it’s a free concert. If they’re not going to appeal to a more popular taste, why not at least get some new, refreshing performers?
That said, and I’m not a big hip hop fan at all, but I really hope the RZA shows.
By the way, get over this “indie” fad all you weiner kids.
@Tha Lonely Donkey Kong is what you get when you enter in “george bush”.
-from the confused and male “lesbian pimp”
@vb Let’s not complain about the booking of R+B/rap performers…let’s complain about the booking of old and washed up R+B/rap performers. Come on, Wu Tang? So. Last. Millenium. Get a hip-hop performer, sure, but how about one who’s had a hit in the past decade?
@you elitist pricks good music is good music kids. yo la tengo is excellent music. ghostface is excellent music. stop bitching and open your minds.
at any rate, I’ve heard rumors that besides the confirmed ghostface, gze and perhaps other wu tang members may be playing as well.
@excellent? Come now…just because someone doesn’t care for R&B doesn’t make them elitist. I don’t think Ghostface or yo la tengo are especially excellent. Good music is a matter of opinion. Fact is, rap and R&B are considerably less popular on campus than rock.
@So, bring your own damn music to campus. Seriously, if it bothers you that much than help them out in bringing what you like instead of bitching.
and saying .03 percent of people on this campus will enjoy it IS prick-ish
@laughing As is “concession to the Harlem community.” What the hell is that supposed to mean? That you’d have to hail from that demographic to enjoy this music because no one on campus actually does? Some people at this school make me sick.
@ghostface is awesome but i heard they’re gonna have the RZA too….
@AC I am Ungrateful Ninja!!!
@rocker Why does Columbia Special events, and whoever else brings musicians to campus only bring Hip Hop/Rap stars? Have they not heard that NYC has about 3 million indie rock bands, let alone that rock is easily the most popular music for columbia students. Why not try and get a real band people might’ve heard of, like say The Postal service or fall out boy, or any of the thousands of other popular bands?
@dear rocker thank you. maybe .03% of this campus actually enjoys hiphop. I’m betting it’s some kind of concession to the harlem “community”?
@i like rap and rock We get indie rock bands every year at that beginning of the year concert, this year we got Yo La Tengo, last year it was the Walkmen – why can’t we have both rap and rock? I mean it’s really just based on the tastes of whoever organizes these events. Also, I sincerely hope no one likes Fall Out Boy.
@True I was thoroughly impressed by the indie-friendliness. We can live with Ghostface, if we have to.
@Bacchanal Actually, it’s not based on the preferences of the event organizers at all. In fact, few of the people running Bacchanal have any idea, today, who is playing at the concert they are hosting. CU concerts chooses, and nobody else – we just give them the money, blind.
(And now speaking to everyone,) Get over yourselves. I don’t agree, but some people like to call indie and emo kids “whiny.” The person that posted #10 has the right idea: just enjoy the music and try to learn something. You’re not above rap… that’s preposterous.
@Tha Lonely Donkey Kong I feel like we’ve had this argument before. Think of it this way– is a free concert really something to complain about?
@uh...no it’s not free. i paid for this shit. $40,000? remember that?
@M.R. Actually, I think you only paid 300 some odd dollars. CSe is funded through ABC/SDA via Student Council via Student Life Fee. Hope that helps.
@mk ghostface > fall out boy
rza > fall out boy
the entire ‘american idol’ cast performing the national anthem > fall out boy
celine dion’s las vegas show > fall out boy
@Mmm Nicely done, Bacchanal. Not Raekwon or Method Man, but he’ll do.
@AR Whatever happened to him switching his name to simply Ghostface “for the kids”?