Latryx know how to rock the mic. Vocals were understandable and the
beats had much bounce (courtesy of Shadow and Chief Xcel). Not many
people there knew of em, but the crowd had their back.
Jeru really disapointed me. The man is a hypocrisy personified. He
comes out bitching about how the crowd needs to get more into it or
he will bounce. Claiming he already got paid and that he doesn't care
about us. This was 3 songs into the set mind ya. The next song is
called the bullshit and is about all the "bullshit" that he sees in rap.
Most notably it disses those in it for the money and not the love. I
guess it doesn't apply to him. Then he claims to drop a freestyle but
its got the same rhymes he dropped in Chicago a year ago... it sounds
freestyle (ie. sloppy, yet almost identical lyrics). He then gets the
crowd to yet "da Bitches, da bitches" and called someone out for not
yelling it with him. of course, he's not talking about the "queens" but
the bitches. its like asking a chinese to yell, not the convienence
store owners, but the chinks". his rasta get-up means nothing. the man
has no sense of principle and has beat up writers for giving a less than
flattering review of his show. he ain't shit without premier's beats.
anyways, shadow came on, but only had about 30 minutes because of wack
time limitations (same thing happened the night before with atari teenage
riot). he did some basic cutting like scratching "midnight" in and out
or whatever. he did add some new elements to most of the tracks...
playing original samples, and extending tracks and such. the crowd
basically didn't know what to do. shadow's not exactly the showman, but
i enjoyed it. i'd love to see him in more of a club setting, rather than
the auditorium likeness of the park west. no real flaws and about what i
expected.
Flight