http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/otm/2006/otm0818.html?navCenterBot
Please note: forwarded message attached
MUSIC August 18, 2006
ONE TRACK MIND
What's New in the Local Music Scene, a Few Minutes at a Time
By Joe Warminsky
A2:What Should Have Been
Storm the Unpredictable
STANDOUT TRACK: No. 3, the jazz-tinged “Oh My God,” in which Storm
the Unpredictable melds hip-hop boasting skills with scientific
terminology. Sample lines: “Vaginal MCs get episiotomies/I attack the
track from the back/Commit the act of verbal sodomy” and “My aura is
majestic/My subcutaneal layer’s lined with titanium/I’m not the one
to mess with/My neurological system coupled with nuclear fission is
the reason testin’ this Christian is a death wish.”
MUSICAL MOTIVATION: Storm, aka Dwayne F. Henry, says he had a vague
goal of writing a science-heavy song, but once he put pen to paper
the “lyrics really did pretty much write themselves.” The Oxon Hill
native, who has a degree in biotechnology from the Rochester
Institute of Technology and is the bio-lab coordinator at Montgomery
College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus, believes the song works
because it’s “somewhat complex but still understandable to the casual
listener—not just boastful, but insightful as well.”
10th WONDER: Hip-hop heads have already taken note of the song’s
combination of cooled-out rhythms and nutty-professor rhymes.
Producer-of-the-moment 9th Wonder of Little Brother heard Storm
performing it during a soundcheck at the Black Cat, “and literally
stopped in his tracks to ask me about it because he was feeling it so
strong,” says the rapper. As for the biological frankness of the
wordplay—syphilis, amniotic fluid, corneal abrasions, and vasectomies
are among the other lyrical touchstones—Storm says he’s gotten
nothing but positive reactions, “especially since none of the words
were curse words.” CP
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
Offline 
Send Email