ON a recent Saturday afternoon, five dot-com executives gathered at the Harlem Branch Library on 124th Street in Manhattan to perform a bit of public service.
The Brooklyn rapper Uncle Murda performed a bit of his song "Murdera," which takes its hook from Ini Kamoze's crossover hit "Here Comes the Hotstepper".
His playing partner Bjorn performs a bit of escapology, too, chipping down the glacial green to a couple of feet to ensure he doesn't leave any shots on the hole either.
He has also performed a bit of sleight of hand about nurses, lifting a cap on recruitment numbers but making them pay for their own training through loans rather than grants.
On Aug. 2 the group handed out fliers and performed a bit of street theater in Old Town Square, holding a symbolic soccer match between multinational corporations and representatives of the world's poor.
At the end of her set she performed a bit of a Kinks' song, unmoored and laid over her own music: "Boy, you really got me going, you got me so I don't know what I'm doing".
Almost reluctantly, YG performed a bit of his lighthearted 2010 hit "Toot It and Boot It," which sounds younger than his rougher new material, and also, by comparison, melodically ornate.
A troupe of actors performed a bit of gruesome but funny street theater called "Return of the Zombie Bankers," in which the bloody zombies in suits fought alternately over a can of change (real) and a severed hand (rubber), before miming a roller coaster ride inspired by the euro currency's crisis this year, screaming, "Here comes Spain!
It is also a good idea not only to discover what those who suffer from depression are going through, but to use the book to perform a bit of self-diagnosis, and to distinguish clinical depression from a case of the blues or indulgent self-pity.
There was the fantastically gravelly Rock, of Heltah Skeltah, who performed a bit of "Laflaur Leflah Eshkoshka," and Artifacts, who were the night's first guests, and whose "Wrong Side of da Tracks" was still sturdy, more than 15 years after it was released.
