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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today in P.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 Allow yourself more quiet time. Discipline is required. Don't gossip or get stopped by past failures. Imagine the right circumstances. Maintain balance amid upheaval.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Imagine a delicious future. Don't inaugurate a new trick or fall for a tall tale. Complete a project that's been slow. You're especially powerful this next month with Venus in Pisces. Group and public activities boost your career.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7 Follow an expert's plans. Increase your area of influence this week. Take on more responsibility over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Watch for career opportunities.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Stand up for what you love. Financially it could get tense. No need to overdo. Create a detailed budget. Travel, explore and study this next month with Venus in Pisces.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Review shared finances this month with Venus in Pisces,
and discover ways to save.
Increase your assets. Re-affirm a commitment. There may be a conflict anyway.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Partnerships flow with greater ease this next month with Venus in Pisces. Collaborate on creative projects.Nobody understands your work better than you.Fix something before it breaks.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today in a 7
Lura Sept. 25-Jul. 27
Today is a 7
Everything seems possible.
There's more work coming in
over the next month with Venus
in Pisces, and it's the kind you
like. Keep costs down anyway.
What you learn benefits many.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Do something nice for your partner (or someone you'd like to know better). You're luckier in love this month with Venus in Pisces. Explore new ways to create beauty. Play and practice hobbies, passions and talents. Share love.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Be patient ad evaluate the situation. Your place can become a love nest. You're more domestic over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Focus on home and family.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Trust your own heart to lead you.
You love learning this month with Venus in Pisces. Study gets fun. You're even smarter than usual. Words flow with ease, so take advantage to write and issue communications.
'TURN-UP GENERATION'
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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8 Gather new income. The next month with Venus in Pisces can get quite profitable. Discover your peak professional performance zone. Prove your latest hypothesis. Don't believe everything you hear.
New York-based rapper Remy Banks is performing in Lawrence today with Odd Future Earl Sweatshirt and Vince Staples. Banks' first solo album, "higher." is set to be released in May. Banks spoke with Kansan reporter Christian Hardy to discuss his music and upcoming album.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
You feel especially beloved for the next month with Venus in your sign. Add some glamour to your personal presentation, with a new style or look. You're irresistible.
Rapper Remy Banks heads to Lawrence with Earl Sweatshirt
CHRISTIAN HARDY
@HardyNFL
New York-based rapper Remy Banks doesn't know how he ended up on the Not Redy 2 Leave tour with Earl Sweatshirt and Vince Staples. But with his debut solo album, "higher," set to release in May, he's prepared to perform a slew of shows with Sweatshirt, one of the main members of Odd Future, and his good friend Staples.
Sweatshirt — birth name Thebe Neruda Kgositsile — began his tour in St. Louis just a day after his third project, "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside," dropped with 10-tracks, including a feature from Vince Staples. His second stop will be in Lawrence tonight.
The three-set tour will be at the Granada where fans can expect some new tracks from Banks' upcoming album and even a smoke break in between his set, according to Banks. The Kansan talked to Banks over the phone before the tour kicked off on Tuesday.
KANSAN: If someone asked you today for a short bio about yourself, what would you tell them?
BANKS: My name is Remy Banks. I'm from Queens, New York. World's Fair general, and I am an wild weed smoker.
KANSAN: When fans come to see you live, what should we expect from you?
BANKS: Bring your lungs, because I have a smoke break in between my set, and also, if I have a blunt I'll pass it out to the crowd. Be expecting some New York raps, man. A little bit of energy, but I like the fans to listen.
KANSAN: A lot of your work thus far has been with New York guys. Are we going to see a little bit more diversification on the next album? Or what can we expect?
BANKS: The album is very low on features because I want it to showcase my talents, and I wanted to tell my story. But I do have a few features on there. I obviously have World's Fair on there, I have Hak from Ratking on there, so I guess those are the only New York features on there. The rest are vocalists from elsewhere, like my boy DRAM — he's from Virginia
— and my homegirl (Syd Bennett) from The Internet.
KANSAN: Vince and Earl are both West Coast guys. How did you end up meeting them, living all the way out in New York?
BANKS: Well I knew (Odd Future) for some time now via MySpace, through their MySPace page. When they did their first show in New York, I was first, and then me and Domo
[Genesis] got really close. I think it was during the New York show when Thebe came back, and I met him. Me and Domo were in the elevator and Thebe and Taco were in the elevator, and we met them. Ever since then it's always been love, every time I see them. I met Vince when I went out to LA, like, just to chill, in 2011, and I ended up going to a studio session where it was me, Mike, and Domo, and Vince came, and that's when Vince came. Like I said, it's always been love since then. Seeing them progress, they obviously come to New York often, so they hit me up whenever they're in town and we kick it.
BANKS: Ever since I was a kid, my teachers, first day of class, they don't know you really so they're like reading your name for attendance, and they'd say, "Oh, Remy Banks, that's a nice name." I was always just like, "I guess." When I started out, I couldn't come up with a rap name. My name was Young Banks as first, then it was R Money Bags. I was just like, man, this is ridiculous. And I just started running with my own name and it started sticking. It just rolls, "Remy Banks," it just rolls easy.
KANSAN: I read that Remy Banks is your birth name, which is pretty cool. When you started rapping, did you just say, "This is what I'm going to go by cause my name is awesome"?
BANKS: Doris was more like the people were... I can't even explain it. Speaking from my personal breathing room, I was highly anticipating Doris, because he was gone for a minute, I knew he was growing as a human being. So I was wondering, "I wonder what his intellect is right now" and I really wanted to hear his raps. When it first came out, a lot of people were expecting older Earl, but it was a more mature Earl. So I was like, "Wow." I'm sure he's just going to get better and better with time. "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside" tunes me right. That shit is so fire. He's just growing as an MC, and as a producer. It's really incredible.
KANSAN: How do you think Earl's new album, "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside"; stands up to "Doris"?
KANSAN: Your songs are kind of centered around New York boom-bap, which is a classic sound, but how do you keep it interesting and new?
BANKS: We're in the turn-up generation. Everybody wants to turn up nowadays. They go to shows, they want to do this, they want to do that. For me, you know, I'm very calm, I'm a chill dude, I like to smoke, I like to relax. I really want people to listen to my lyrics. So I do have energy, yeah, I bring energy to the set. But the thing is, when it comes to me and my music, I start working from a chord, and then I branch out. If I do feel like I need to bring a record that brings energy, I will start with the bars first, and then me and my produced Black Noise, we'll build on the beat to bring it to wherever direction we want to bring it to. So that's how that really happens.
KANSAN: What is being yourself and telling your story, to you?
Also, that's how the project came about. We need to figure out a way where I can get my point across by being myself, but also making sure this shit is interesting. We literally just went into the lab, like scientists, and just made this project.
BANKS: I travel a lot. I smoke a lot. That all ties into me growing as an individual. The name of the project is called "higher," not just because I smoke weed, or because it's a weed reference, but the project is more about expanding or growing as an individual, you know. Expanding your mind, learning new things, and growing as a person. I feel like I've done that over the years, especially in the process of working on this
recall memorizing by heart. That was like the first rap video I've ever seen as a kid in the Golden Era. I guess you could say that ties into my music, because that's all I know, really, and that's the type of music that I gravitate toward. I'm like the second-coming of that. I pay homage as much as I can.
KANSAN: What do you listen to now?
BANKS: To be honest I don't
"WE'RE IN THE TURN-UP GENERATION. EVERYBODY WANTS TO TURN UP NOWADAYS. THEY GO TO SHOWS, THEY WANT TO DO THIS, THEY WANT TO DO THAT. FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY CALM, I'M A CHILL DUDE, I LIKE TO SMOKE, I LIKE TO RELAX. I REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO MY LYRICS."
project. So you'll hear a lot of that on the project. It's literally like a diary of my life over the last two years.
BANKS: Nah, I've been working on it for a year and maybe a couple months. A lot of past experiences from right before I started working on it tied into it.
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KANSAN: Have you been working on it for two years?
RANSAR: My two favorite songs I've heard from you are "rem," and the "g-unit freestyle." Both have them have New York and Wu-Tang references. How much of an influence has growing up in the New York rap scene had on your music that you make?
BANKS: Wu-Tang, my or god,
"Da' Mystery of Chessboxin"
was the first rap song I really
really listen to much outside of World's Fair, I listen to Rating, I listen to Earl, I listen to Domo, he sent me a new shit to my email; that's like my brother, we have like an uncanny bond. I listen to a lot of beats, a lot of instrumentals. That's really my thing. I love instrumentals. Having Black Noise on the road with me as my DJ, he's also my producer, whatever he cooks up, I always bump.
KANSAN: That's all I've got. I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow after St. Louis tonight then.
BANKS: We're already in St. Louis, just in the bus trappin' Kansas is going to be tight, guide me to the dope if you can.
edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho
Does Kansas have the most desperate men?
TRENDING
Katherine Hartley
@Kat_hart9
March: a month of madness, basketball and brackets. This year, the dating site WhatSYourPrice.com has filled out a different sort of bracket.
The site is self-described as a "Dating-for-Dollars" website that allows "Generous" members to bid and pay for first dates with other users. The front page of their website claims that men can "Get the date by simply using your wallet." Money is exchanged during the date, and second dates may be arranged either online or off.
The site has released its own March Madness bracket in which it ranks "America's Hottest Coeds." The site used data based off of the average first date prices of college coeds using What's YourPrice.com.
And the National Champion of the tournament is none other than: the University of Kansas. At least now,we can say we beat WSU at least once
this year, right?
The site offers free premium memberships for anyone who registers with a university email account. Paste Magazine writer Shane Ryan points out that the data from the study could potentially include graduates still using their email addresses, if the university allows that after a student graduates.
According to the website, the rankings were determined by pulling data from accounts that registered with a "edu" email and universities based on the actual prices men are willing to pay for a first date with a female student.
Kansas male students with
Edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho
The whole process isn't something that could necessarily even be called "dating" and as Ryan puts it, "We have a word for dudes like these, and that word is: Desperate."
accounts on this website are reportedly willing to spend an average of $324 just to go on a date with another student. This does not include the price of the actual date.
The University of Kansas was number one on the list of 16, beating Rutgers University by $14 and the lowest price being $150 at the University of Wisconsin.
$324
Kansas male students with accounts on this website.are reportedly willing to spend an average of $324 just to go on a date with another student.
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