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Live at the BBQ

                Yea I know, I know, the concert was Thursday…..oh well. I didn’t get home until late Friday, even then I wasn’t here mentally. Then I rested on the 7th day (Saturday), turned around and rested some more on Sunday. So know here I am, late Sunday blogging about a concert that went down last Thursday…

                When I heard the show was at a park in Los Angeles, I thought “Wow, does Microsoft really wanna do that?” I don’t know about everywhere else, but out here, when I think of parks, I don’t think of people jogging and walking their dogs. The tickets advised that people take public transportation, So I checked the Metro trip planner. Once I seen that getting to this park took more than just taking train, I said fuck that, the car it is. Me and my girl arrived a little late, but still before the first act, which was Collie Buddz. I wasn’t really trying to see dude, but my girl peoples are from the Caribbean (ya dunt Know), so of course she wanted to hear that garbage. First thing I did is check out the scene. I gotta admit, the set up was nice. They had some basketball courts where cats were shooting it out, they had the stage in front of a huge grass area (so your not standing on cement like Rock the Bells last year), they had little tents selling barbecue and drinks (I could’ve swore Bun B said in the blog he took down the food was free…..oh well) they had brand new benches set up with cards, dominos, and checkers, then off in the cut way in the back they had an air conditioned tent with Xbox 360s, and Zunes with music from the artists performing. When Collie Buddz finally came on, we went over towards the stage area. There wasn’t a large crowd of people there, and there was even less people feeling dude. He had like one fan. Doubt me?.....

                Well, I gotta admit, the first thing I thought when I seen dude on TV was “Is he for real?” I don’t know. Call me racists, call me biased….I have no problem with white emcees, I got hella love for Eminem, Slug from Atmosphere, El-P, and others…but white reggae artists…I just dun’t Kno…as they would say. So I decided to actually pay attention (unlike everyone else there) to see what’s really good. The Verdict: Fuck no. This dude is a straight poser. First of all, before his show, his DJ was talking saying something, then, when dude started to come out, all of a sudden the DJ got an accent. Then during the show Collie says “If you like real reggae music say ‘BUMBACLOT’!”……Now, I’m sure you’ve all heard this word before, either in “Belly” or any other Jamaicanxploitation flick out (“Shottas” anyone?), but when I asked a person from the islands what does it mean, they told me it was sort of like a curse word. Ok, so take that, go back and translation on something you understand “If you like that real hip hop shit, say FUCK!”….just doesn’t make sense. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but it didn’t add up. Add in the fact all of dudes music was about Weed or pussy, and dude is either a poser imitating what he has seen about Jamaica on TV, or just a white Jamaican dude partaking in a little bit of Caribbean cooning. Next act…E40.

                Before E40 took the stage, we went to the booth with the Zune’s and 360s. I watched some cats attempt to play “Tony Hawk Project 8”. But they were seriously lacking in the skills department. As they finished and got up, I went to sit down, but a little kid and his older brother cut in front of me. Why these muthafuckas sat there on the game for like 20 mins? That’s why I hate being somewhere where they let you play video games for free, cuz people who don’t have shit make themselves at home on the sticks. It was bad enough that they took forever, the fact that they sucked made it even worse. When I finally got the controller in hand, some punk rock white kid took the sticks with me. So we free skated, then he said “hey, let’s play a game”….Ok. I knew it wasn’t gonna be too good for him, but I started trick attack, and began to absolutely embarrass him. 30 seconds into a 2 minute game he said “we’ll it looks like we already know who won this one,” If you thought his idea to play me was bad, then he started talking about other shit. Dude said he was a huge Beastie Boys fan…ok, cool,  I thought they were dope too, but then, why did he try and tell me a white lady created rap? “Yea, isn’t it crazy that black people created punk rock, and an old white lady created rap?”….Yea, conversation over with. A couple million point combos, and back to the stage.

                Ok, So I got a lot of respect for E40. Dude has created 33% percent of all slang used in hip hop today (another 33 percent comes from the 5 percenters, another 15% from the south, and the rest from Old School New York artists) I’ve liked some of his songs, but ever since he’s helped to push the whole “Hyphy movement”…I can’t fuck with him. Sorry, that’s some of the most coonaful shit ever. Dude came on stage with to dancers “shakin them dreads”…I tried to video tape that, but this is my first major outing with this camera (RIP my last one….it’s dearly missed) and my attempts at recording the predator having a seizure  were unsuccessful. Next act….David Banner

 

                In between acts we went to get something to eat. The barbecue sucked. It’s all good, I mean, it wasn’t that bad, it’s just it wasn’t all that good either. After whooping my girl’s ass in checkers it was back to the stage. David Banner was next. Whenever I hear David Banner talk, he always speaks on some real shit….whenever I hear his music I’m utterly disappointed. I’ve heard some tracks from him I like, but….I don’t know. It’s just seems odd to me someone can speak on shit that matters in all his interviews, then do music like “Like a Pimp”. I always check David Banner interviews, and I’d rather hear him speak before I hear Common speak any day, but music wise…not so much. Next act: UGK

                See this is where I was slipping at. I went back and was fucking with this Yo-Yo the Zune people gave me, thrashing my girl in checkers again, and just straight up enjoying the day, and I came back late to see UGK. I don’t know if there set was that short, or I just came back that late, but I only caught like 3 songs from them.  By the time I thought to record they were leaving. UGK is one of those acts that I like, but I don’t have any music from. I’m not gonna front, I’m not the biggest Pimp C fan, but together they are, and always have been a representation for some people in the south that weren’t getting heard. They come from a time where there was balance (well not really, cuz the south wasn’t fairly represented)…ok, there wasn’t complete balance, but there was a balance overall of street shit, club shit, deep shit, etc. etc. It’s not their fault that what they’ve been doing from the beginning has now become the majority, and every artist in the south is doing what they’ve been doing, and there is no long that balance between the different types of hip hop. So I actually wanted to see more of their set, so I could check out their music before I invest in it. (there is always the other way to “sample music”, but I just like the live show better)

                So prior to Common coming on the stage, Mr Choc (the host of the concert) came out and said they were gonna give away some Zunes. I already have one, (and am extremely happy with it) but my girl has an IPOD which she can’t stand, (I’m not making this shit up) and she’s been dying to get a Zune since I got mine. So they were gonna get some people on the stage and ask some them some questions about hip hop, if they got them right, they would win a Zune. My girl begged me to get up there, but I didn’t feel like embarrassing myself. I got knowledge of hip hop, but I didn’t want to get up there and he ask me “What was De La Soul’s second music video?” and I sit there looking puzzled. However, when they got the original five up there, and had to kick someone 2 people off because they didn’t know Eazy E’s first single, and who rapped on “Ain’t No Nigga” with Jay Z, I was trying my hardest to get on the stage and win my girl her Zune. I’m always saying we got a dope hip hop scene out here and all that, but what happened next embarrassed me. Why did they get like 7 different people on the stage who couldn’t name all 10 members of the Wu Tang Clan? This shit was horrible. I heard Killah Preist was a member (No), the obvious mistake of naming Redman (no), dude in the crowd tried to say Meth’s little brother Shyheim was a member(no). Horrible….straight horrible…next act, Common.

                Ok, so this is what I came to see. This is what I spent the whole $0.00 for.  To see Common perform, and I was not disappointed. I’ve never seen Common perform his own set before. Talib Kweli brought him and Kanye out to kick freestyles at Audiotistic years ago, but I’ve never seen Common on his own. It was everything I was looking for. All new shit, classic shit, a freestyle (a real one, not the kind where the artists takes another artists beat and makes his own song, off the top of the dome, it may not have been more lyrical than anything on his album, but it was a REAL freestyle, and that’s REAL hip hop shit) tributes to other artists, and a jab at Bush (nothing is more hip hop right now then dissing Bush) Forget kicking a songs for the ladies, Common brought a lady on the stage, and rapped the song to her. He did “Come Close” and “The Light” yet he didn’t leave out songs like “The Corner” . He even did a rendition of “Testify” where he put his acting skills on display (say what you want about rappers who act, or how garbage you think “Smokin’ Aces” was, you gotta give dude his props for the scene where he told off Ari from “Entourage” for snitching on him) When dude left the stage, nobody really hollered “Encore”, I didn’t because I had gotten all I expected, and more. I got some videos from his performance, but you gotta excuse the quality (like the quality of all the other ones) I just started fucking with this camera. First is a video of him kicking a verse from “Black, Maybe” from Finding Forever, then the video of him freestyling.

 

 

                Yea, so that’s my interpretation of “Live at the BBQ” shout out to the cat’s that came and said what up and recognized me from this shit right here (I’m a star….sike), and everybody else I’ll just have to catch you at the next show. I got another blog I’m supposed to put up later, but I promise nothing except to stay black and die. Outro I go.

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