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
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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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