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ACROSS
1 Ray Charles’
genre
6 “Thank God” day:
Abbr.
9 Swedish autos
14 Borden mascot
15 Cereal grain
16 Come from behind
17 Teen’s budding
facial hair,
informally
19 Place for a perm
20 One of many in a
Lipton bag
22 Home buyer’s
debt: Abbr.
23 Ceases
26 Sister of Rachel
28 Distributes by
shares
29 Group nickname
for Ringwald,
Sheedy, Lowe,
Estevez et al.
33 “Let’s go!”
34 Name of 18
French kings
35 “Toto, __?”:
Dorothy
36 Caviar, e.g.
37 Country-drive
view
39 Jam holder
40 Nonprofit URL
ending
41 Carpentry bit
42 Uncommon
43 Next-door
resident
45 Gabor with an
echoic name
47 Florida State
player, for short
48 Native
49 Living room piece
51 “No chance of
that happening!”
54 Relax, in slang
56 Speculation
leading up to a
February 22
awards
extravaganza
60 Open, as a jacket
61 Tex. clock setting
62 Theater offering
63 Takes a nap
64 Fancy carp
65 Former Steeler
star Lynn __,
who ran for
governor of
Pennsylvania in
2006

DOWN
1 Sales agent
2 Bass brew
3 Govt. intel org.
4 Style of wording
5 Command
6 Hoops ref’s calls
7 Demolish, as a
building
8 Chichén __
9 Yearbook sect.
10 Road travel org.
freebie
11 Semi-
autobiographical
1979 Fosse film
12 Opinion website
13 “Auld Lang __”
18 Pool legend
Minnesota __
21 Natural aptitude
23 Wrinkle-resistant
synthetic
24 Author Leonard
25 Bubbly plum-
flavored drink
27 Online market for
handmade crafts
29 Dumb mistake
30 Penitent sort
31 Like a
woodworker’s
rasp
32 Seoul native
34 Toy block brand

37 Humorist Mort
who wrote jokes
for Kennedy
38 To the third power
42 Colorful post-
cloudburst
phenomenon
44 Hockey mask
wearer
45 Alcopop brand
46 Hurricanes, e.g.
48 Spiny desert
plants

49 Gulf War missile
50 “Don’t tell me!”
52 Relax on a 
porch chair,
perhaps
53 Standard Oil
brand
55 Hi-fi platters
57 Charlottesville
sch.
58 Red or blush
wine, familiarly
59 Buddhist sect

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“What’d you say about Star Trek?!?!”

Don’t read this, go 
listen to Drake

ALBUM REVIEW

The Toronto rapper’s 

mixtape/album 

makes a statement

By RACHEL KERR

Daily Arts Writer

Late Thursday night, Drake 

tweeted a link to If You’re Reading 
This It’s Too Late after teasing it 
with the release of 
a short film titled 
“Jungle” 
earlier 

in the day. He’s 
calling it a mix-
tape, but within 
an hour it was 
off the Internet, 
and only available 
to 
purchase 
on 

iTunes. Mixtapes 
don’t cost money; 
they’re 
usually 

found in the crev-
ices of the Internet. And they defi-
nitely don’t span over 70 minutes 
like this one does. Of course, I still 
found myself spending $12.99 for it 
while at a party before leaving so 
I could have my own personal lis-
tening session.

But the 17-track project, which 

features collaborations with Lil 
Wayne, PARTYNEXTDOOR and 
Travi$ Scott, works because he’s 
calling it a mixtape, rather than a 
full-blown album. It doesn’t feel 
like the follow up to 2013’s Noth-
ing Was The Same because it’s not 
supposed to. There was almost no 
promotional work, unlike NWTS 
and his 2011 effort Take Care, 
where we’d essentially heard the 
whole album before the release. 
None of the tracks on IYRTITL 
could have been obvious singles. 
And their content sounds differ-
ent: more urgent, aggressive and 
cold. It’s the Toronto rapper’s way 
of telling people, if they didn’t 
already know, he’s not one to be 
fucked with. He’s only getting big-
ger, and he knows it. That could 
be what Drake’s referencing with 
the project’s title; If You’re Reading 
This It’s Too Late serves as a state-
ment to fellow rappers and fans 
alike, implying we can’t keep up 
and that’s how he likes it.

In fact, the whole tape feels like 

a statement. It can’t be a coinci-
dence that Drake decided to drop 
the thing the same day Kanye 
West unveiled his new fashion line 

with Adidas, as well as a surprise 
track, during New York Fashion 
Week. And the tracks are littered 
with shots at other rappers, even 
friends like Jay Z and West. He 
explicitly calls out Tyga during 
“6PM in New York” – “I heard a lil’ 
lil’ homie talking reckless in VIBE 
/ Quite a platform you chose, you 
shoulda kept it inside/ Oh you tried 
it, it’s so childish calling my name 
on the world stage/ You need to act 
your age and not your girl’s age” – 
and finally breaks his silence about 
the beef with Cash Money Records 
in “Star67” – “Walk up in my label 
like, where the check though?/ 
Yeah I said it, wouldn’t dap you 
with the left ho.” This brings up 
an interesting question: Does this 
“mixtape” fulfill Drake’s four-
album contract with Cash Money? 
That would explain why it was 
up on iTunes for sale, as opposed 
to the usual Internet upload that 
mixtapes 
recieve. 
With 
both 

Drake and Wayne on the outs, this 
could be the death of the famous 
hip-hop label.

If this tape was a goodbye, it’s 

a hell of a good one. We get the 
Drake that goes off in bangers like 
“Know Yourself” and “6 God,” but 
also the introspective, moody-
broody Drake – my favorite Drake 
– in songs like “Now and Forever” 
and “Jungle.” We get a bunch of 
millennial references no one will 
understand in 10 years but that still 
really resonate right now – “Call 
your ass an Uber, I got somewhere 
to be.” We get Drake talking about 
his mom because he can’t not talk 
about his mom. “I can’t be out here 
being vulnerable, momma” is the 
most Drake lyric I’ve ever heard. 

We get an abnormally long mix-
tape that feels short, which makes 
it easy to listen to on repeat.

But we also get a mixtape that 

might be trying a little too hard 
to be hard. Drake has always been 
acutely conscious of his position in 
the rap world. But all these shots 
at other rappers? Or the gunshot 
features on “Energy” and “Know 
Yourself?” Like, come on Drake, 
we know you’ve never shot a gun 
in your life. Or on “Energy,” he 
raps over and over again about 
how he’s got enemies, like a lot of 
enemies. We get it, Drake, people 
don’t like you! It feels inauthentic 
at points. Drake wants so terribly 
to prove himself, and he says just 
that in “6PM in New York” – “I 
wanna prove that I’m number one 
over all these niggas.”

Still, something has changed 

with the rapper. He even notes in 
“6PM,” “‘Best I Ever Had’ seems 
like a decade ago.” IYRTITL marks 
a transition for Drake’s sound, 
attitude and, potentially, even his 
label. He’s completely confident 
doing whatever he wants now, 
like dropping a whole mixtape 
unannounced. He knew we were 
all thirsty during this dry period 
before the release of his actual 
anticipated album Views From the 
Six, so he gave us a taste of what’s 
to come later this year.

And I don’t regret leaving that 

party to listen.

CASH MONEY RECORDS

Nobody’s saying he could do better.

Minkoff show 
a ’70s homage

By KATIE CAMPBELL

Daily Arts Writer

Rebecca Minkoff’s New York 

Fashion Week designs were an 
homage to the ’70s. The runway 
was filled with loosely styled cool 
girls wearing fringe, tall boots and 
deep, muted colors. The opening 
look was the perfect way to define 
the show — a brown and black com-
bination of a peasant blouse and mini 
skirt topped with a vest. Other nota-
ble outfits included a look defined 
by a vibrant red peasant dress with 
a knee length leather jacket and an 
ankle length, fringe skirt paired 
with a cream blouse and a leather/
fringe vest. The textures and fabrics 
of the pieces were a highlight of the 
collection. The fringe varied from 
white to black to brown, short to 
long, and are featured on the coats, 
dresses, skirts and boots. Other fab-
rics, such as leather, suede and wool, 

were paired with the fringe to bal-
ance out the intensity of the texture.

Minkoff’s looks define the con-

temporary approach to the trend-
ing Woodstock-esque styles that 
have been appearing on young 
adults since Coachella made music 
festivals fashionable. Minkoff’s 
approach to the relaxed style is 
countered by her tendency for 
structured pieces. In this collec-
tion, the most distinctive pieces 
were the outwear; the jackets, 
vests and coats layered over the 
models stealing the show. The 
pieces ranged from leather motor-
cycle 
jackets 
to 
ankle-length 

Sherpa 
coats. 
The 
collection 

offers many options for season 
transitions, as most of the pieces 
are layered. Any combination of 
the dresses, skirts, tops and bot-
toms can be mixed and matched, 
adding to the overall easy vibe of 
Minkoff’s inspiration, Patti Smith.

REBECCA MINKOFF

John Wayne called, he wants his hat back.

Despite strong cast, 
‘Slap’ can’t connect

By ALEX INTNER

Daily Arts Writer

The idea of a “guilty plea-

sure” show has been embraced 
wholeheartedly by broadcast 
networks. 
This 

type 
of 
series 

thrives on the 
idea of driving 
people to watch 
each week, even 
if 
they’re 
not 

the best shows 
on 
television. 

However, there’s 
something 
about each pro-
gram 
that 
fits 

that model that 
makes 
it 
worth 
watching. 

“Scandal” has dense plotting 
and cliffhangers that push 
you into the next week. Oth-
ers have performers that make 
them worth watching on their 
own, like Viola Davis on “How 
to Get Away with Murder” and 
Taraji P. Henson on “Empire.” 
“The Slap” has the right title, 
hook and cast to fit right in 
with these shows, but it never 
embraces what it could be and 
is painful as a result.

“The Slap,” based on an Aus-

tralian series of the same name, 
follows what happens after the 
events of Hector’s (Peter Sars-
gaard, “An Education”) 40th 
birthday party. At the party, 

Hector’s cousin Harry (Zach-
ary Quinto, “Star Trek”) slaps 
another couple’s misbehaving 
child, and the couple leaves 
the party threatening to press 
charges. The pilot also deals 
with 
Hector’s 
uncertainty 

about his affair with his under-
age babysitter Connie (Maken-
zie Leigh, “Gotham”).

What comes back to hit the 

show is the mix of over-the-
top storytelling elements and a 
sense that it wants to be taken 
seriously. From Hector’s intro-
duction 
as 
a 
jazz-listening 

“good guy gone bad” to the fam-
ily’s arguments, it only goes for 
one thing: drama. Every scene 
plays out with the emotional 
volume pushed up to 10. Even 
when it gets to the slap of the 
title, the child’s scream is heard 
in slow motion and the camera 
cuts to everyone’s *shocked* 
faces. This all could work if it 
didn’t try to take itself so seri-
ously. It’s so interested in doing 
a dramatic telling of its story 
that it loses track of how silly 
it all is. If it embraced that fac-
tor, then it could actually be a 
decent show, but it fails to rec-
ognize its potential.

It doesn’t help that the fan-

tastic cast is saddled with one-
note, stereotypical characters 
that don’t allow them to show 
any range as performers. The 
show has an excellent ensem-

ble, including Sarsgaard, Quin-
to, Uma Thurman (“Kill Bill”), 
Melissa George (“The Good 
Wife”) and Thomas Sadoski 
(“The Newsroom”). That cast 
should be able to make any-
thing better, but they’re stuck 
with the limited characters on 
the page. For example, Quinto’s 
character is the “hot-headed,” 
successful member of the fam-
ily, so he’s only told to play 
angry. He doesn’t get to add any 
nuance to his portrayal in the 
several minutes he’s on screen. 
Sarsgaard is the one given the 
most to work with in the first 
episode, but his character fits 
right into the “good leading 
man who has skeletons in his 
closet” stereotype. The show 
does nothing to break the char-
acter out of that mold and his 
performance suffers as a result. 
Honestly, if I were any one of 
these actors, I would be slap-
ping my agent for getting me 
involved in this schlock.

It’s really a shame. A show 

called “The Slap” with this 
premise should be something 
that fits right in as a television 
soap. Instead, its one-note char-
acters and heavy-handed story-
telling leave nothing to hook 
the viewer. Maybe it’ll get bet-
ter and the characters will gain 
depth as the show completes its 
eight episode run, but the first 
episode didn’t leave a mark.

B+

‘If You’re 
Reading 
This, It’s 
Too Late’

Drake

Cash Money 
Records

D+

‘The Slap’

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Series 
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