Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
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Still, there's a reason his boss music is named: "Clash With Evil Personified." Hell, halfway through the game he takes one of his own people he believes to be a traitor and rather than interrogate him, stuffs him in an oil drum and beats him death while he's inside it.
Source: Psycho Electro - In The Rainmaker, one of the props Starbuck carries on his wagon is a big bass drum, which he directs Jim to give several resounding beats on to make the rain come.
Source: Thunder Drum -
Walker spares the man's life, but still beats him like a bass drum and brings him in for arrest.
Source: Series / Walker, Texas Ranger
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