UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 24, Page 8
March 16, 1995
Three groups added to rap concert

     Three additional acts will perform at the rap concert scheduled
on Friday, March 17, at the University. Joining rappers Pete Rock and
CL Smooth will be The Roots, O.C. and Group Home.
     The concert is scheduled at 8 p.m. in Pearson Hall. Tickets,
available at the box offices of the Bob Carpenter Center and Perkins
Student Center, are $10 in advance. Tickets will be sold for $12 at
the door on the evening of the performance.
     Rock and Smooth's latest release, Main Ingredient, is their
streetwise, wildly inventive follow-up to 1992's Mecca and the Soul
Brother, which was named album of the year by The Source.
     The Roots, from Philadelphia, just released its debut album, Do
You Want More?!!!??! The hip hop group with a jazz sound has toured
throughout Europe.
     O.C., who hails from the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, is a street
monologist, with songs fueled by poetic realism and brazenness.
     Group Home's independently released single, "Supa Star," is
currently receiving play on rap radio, and an album is now in
production.
     For more information on the March 17 concert, call 831-2991.