Mr. Smith clutched the mic and strutted center stage. A sampled film score played, but the CD malfunctioned before the 813 rapper could deliver his rhymes. Perfectly timed as if planned (but it wasn’t), co-host Mingle Mixx started beat-boxing and Smith responded with an impassioned rendition of his single “Indiana Jones,” actually making his impromptu, sans backing music, version more engaging than the one he recorded.
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2007.