D-Day for Detroit
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tant!s for", aid Rap Arti t
Heavy D of Heavy 0 and the
Boys who performed live along
with with several other rap
group tha constituted D-Day
t the Joe Louis Arena on Sun
day December 3.
Dwight, sir-named Myers,
who is 22, is the youngest of six
children. He was born in
J maica, West Indies and grew
up listening to, and trying his
hand at rap music in Mt. Ver
non e Yor. He said, "lt's
Ii e when omebody gets a new
pair of ne er, everybody else
wants on .
y rs s id he tried for al
ma t four year to gel recorded,
he s id he and his friend con
tinuously made tapes nd ent
them to recording comp nies,
but got no positive response
until b sent a tape to Uptown
MeA's pre ident and founder,
Andre' Harrell.
Myers and the Boys are im
pecable dresser , dancers and
rapper to Say the le . Their
lyrics are no the ususal b udy
. type, but are message and
reflective songs, lik ' omeone
To Love Me For Me'.
Myers himself write all the
lyric for hi song and con
ceive all of his own' co cepts .
(rom life experience . He said
he is vehemently opposed to
drug and hi song "Belter
Land" expres es thi on his
latest album.
"I'm not at the top yet",
M yer said. "It has been an
pbiU struggle nd I till have a
ys to go." Myers said his fami
ly is happy for his pre ent suc
cess nd has confidence that he
will go even farther.
Heavy 'D' and the Boy arc.
currently on tour in the United
State .. The Group ha per
furmed in Kan . ,Minneopolis,
Alabama and Detroit with more
1.0 come.
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mentioning it in the headline.
-Dctroit Free Press reporter
Margaret Trimer, one of the
reporters of the Knowles story,
defended the paper's actions.
o "Wh t you have to remember
. that Knowle' ction were
direct result of hi illness;
Trimer aid. "He had been i -
stitutionalized, nd h d
topped taking his medication.
The andoff he police was a
direct result of all of that."
o Trimer said that the paper
heard from the family bout the
way the ory w s presented.
She also admitted that while the
story was being written, no a 10
of thought was given to being
sensitive.
"I thin - in everyday tories,
give more thought to thi ,
but in sensational tories, some
thing like th t could happen
again," Trimer said. "I per onal
ly thought the story wa ac
curate and f. ir."
ReiDstien . d the Recipient
Right goup i not i the
edia to cover ories about
the mentally � J •
e are . them to do so
the e sensitivity they
°ai� .to
Reinstein id using the
terms mentaUy ill labels people,
Instead he said, it would be bet
ter to ay that people suffer
from mental iIIne .
He al 0 said the article
would have been ccurate by
aying that Knowles suffered
from mental illne s without
tic>n< I,
fforda
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