2008 Woodie Awards
Flow Showcase delivers rapper's delight
By: Shawn Dooley
Issue date: 4/13/06 Section: Lifestyle
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Competitors battled with rhymes and raps at the April 9 Flow Showcase.
"This is the ghetto American Idol," said Keith "Bizkits" Moore, one of the two-person group, "The Equalizers." Moore and his "Equalizer" cohort Larry Morris, a junior audio production major, hosted the event in the Sunnen Lounge.
The Flow Showcase rappers contended for two tickets to rapper T.I.'s May 3 concert at The Pageant.
"It was less of a battle and more of a showcase of the artists' work," Morris said. "Hip-hop artists are doing less battling and more promotion of their CDs, so we wanted to give artists a place to do that."
The showcase was set up in two brackets, in which two artists performed two songs and at the end of the bracket the audience decided the winner. The winner of the first bracket then competed against the winner of the second bracket in the finals. The best of each bracket competed for showcase champion. If the audience's applause, screams and cheers weren't enough to distinctively decide a winner then there was a panel of three judges, who made a final decision.
Many people in the crowd of about 45 were there to support Morris and his efforts to launch the Flow Showcase.
Junior Janequa Harris, an advertising/marketing major, said "I actually heard something about (the event), but then (Morris) told me about it and I wanted to support him."
Morris said he is hoping the showcase will become an annual event at Webster.
"I was hoping for a bigger crowd, but I think the turnout was cool for a Friday night," Morris said. "I think if we could have had it on a Wednesday, the crowd would have been a lot bigger. On Fridays there is so much to do, it competes with this event."
The first half of the show pitted freshman Brian "Essince" Collins, an audio production major, against junior Terrell "X-Man" Sanders, a sociology/psychology major. Collins started the battle with his old-school inspired song "3 Way with Myself." Sanders followed with his crunk inspired song that garnered crowd participation, ordering the crowd to "move and get crunk." Collins followed up with an attack on "Rap Clowns," and Sanders got personnel with "Born Again," an autobiographical tale.
"This is the ghetto American Idol," said Keith "Bizkits" Moore, one of the two-person group, "The Equalizers." Moore and his "Equalizer" cohort Larry Morris, a junior audio production major, hosted the event in the Sunnen Lounge.
The Flow Showcase rappers contended for two tickets to rapper T.I.'s May 3 concert at The Pageant.
"It was less of a battle and more of a showcase of the artists' work," Morris said. "Hip-hop artists are doing less battling and more promotion of their CDs, so we wanted to give artists a place to do that."
The showcase was set up in two brackets, in which two artists performed two songs and at the end of the bracket the audience decided the winner. The winner of the first bracket then competed against the winner of the second bracket in the finals. The best of each bracket competed for showcase champion. If the audience's applause, screams and cheers weren't enough to distinctively decide a winner then there was a panel of three judges, who made a final decision.
Many people in the crowd of about 45 were there to support Morris and his efforts to launch the Flow Showcase.
Junior Janequa Harris, an advertising/marketing major, said "I actually heard something about (the event), but then (Morris) told me about it and I wanted to support him."
Morris said he is hoping the showcase will become an annual event at Webster.
"I was hoping for a bigger crowd, but I think the turnout was cool for a Friday night," Morris said. "I think if we could have had it on a Wednesday, the crowd would have been a lot bigger. On Fridays there is so much to do, it competes with this event."
The first half of the show pitted freshman Brian "Essince" Collins, an audio production major, against junior Terrell "X-Man" Sanders, a sociology/psychology major. Collins started the battle with his old-school inspired song "3 Way with Myself." Sanders followed with his crunk inspired song that garnered crowd participation, ordering the crowd to "move and get crunk." Collins followed up with an attack on "Rap Clowns," and Sanders got personnel with "Born Again," an autobiographical tale.