Hip Hop Gigs 2012

I assume the button factory is over 18s yeah? If so i wont get to see them

great, over 18s only, seriously not happy about that, I wanna see the Wu!:mad:

Any of you going to see Snoop on Saturday? Also, Tyga supporting Nicki Minaj in the 02 in November, I wish he'd play a concert of his own over here.

Demonic-H wrote: »

alright folks
long time time lurker around here
i had to get myself a ticket to this gig or id never forgive myself
so anyway heres the pickle
i was told my youth was over and forget about seeing "those rappers"
or were over
adios relationship WU for ever she doesnt know .
so is it worth it ?
and if anyone says its not the origanal line up f-uuuu
im in my mid 30s and was robbed from any of these gigs for years

advice please

so you're basically being told you're not allowed listen to the music you like? hmm, what would the Wu do? why dont you ask Rae, Ghost, GZA and Masta while you're there?

Demonic-H wrote: »

alright folks
long time time lurker around here
i had to get myself a ticket to this gig or id never forgive myself
so anyway heres the pickle
i was told my youth was over and forget about seeing "those rappers"
or were over
adios relationship WU for ever she doesnt know .
so is it worth it ?
and if anyone says its not the origanal line up f-uuuu
im in my mid 30s and was robbed from any of these gigs for years

advice please

Tell that bitch she better protect her neck and get your ass down to that concert.

This has the potential to be one of the gigs of the year. MF DOOM, Madlib and Freddie Gibbs are playing in London on the 12th of October.

I doubt I have any chance of getting to it. I'll probably have lectures in college all that day. I'm gonna hold out for a Manchester gig. Would be much easier for me to get to.

Tickets are around the £25 mark.

The line up is:

DOOM (live)
Madlib (live Medicine Show)
Jneiro Jarel (live)
Dels (live)
Jehst (live)
KUTMAH (DJ Set)
Illum Sphere (DJ Set)

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4145197-doom-madlib-freddie-gibbs-j-rocc-more-set-for-exclusive-london-show?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

TweetMe!?! wrote: »

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are playing The Academy on Sept. 19th. Tickets are on sale tomorrow.

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/180048D5B41F232F?artistid=1175674&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=3

Can't get into them at all, really mediocre

Not sure if this is allowed but <snip> it's not allowed </snip>

LUPE wrote: »

Not sure if this is allowed but <snip> it's not allowed </snip>

Sorry about that, didn't mean any harm

Found a few clips from their performance in London last night.

Meth didn't make an appearance. He didn't appear at the concert in Glasgow on Thursday either. Hopefully he's saving himself for tomorrow night.

Having said that I'd be more than happy with GZA, Ghost and the Chef.

Cathal_91 wrote: »

Would be a good gig, but very short notice and ive bad tinnitus at the minute, ringing in ears, so a concert is off the cards till thats sorted, i seen raekwon last year was right at the front so was pretty good but right beside the speakers aswell, nearly blew my ears off haha

I know a guy that plays in a band and he wears these modified ear plugs whenever he's in a music environment. He wears them is he's at a gig or if he's playing himself. Might be worth looking into it. Tinnitus is a dodgy thing, best staying away from a Wu Tang concert anyway. The bass alone will ruin you for life .

Cathal_91 wrote: »

Hold on method man isnt even with them?? Ahh i knew something wasnt right

I'm not sure. He's on the billing for all the UK concerts. Masta Killa is down as well and he hasn't made an appearance either.

Someone on Twitter said Meth and Masta were up in the hotel for the Glasgow gig. No idea if there's any truth in that. My money would be on Meth having not made the trip at all.

Just home from it, was really good fun. Probably not as good as the Tripod show just because Meth wasn't there and he's a great showman, but it was really good. Certainly better than Raekwon last year, imo.

I really enjoyed the Wu gig. Managed to get right to the very front again. Shook hands with all three of the lads a good few times.

Thought the part where they invited people onstage was pretty cool. If I was more confident on the words I'd have gone up there. The two lads that got to go up were either side of me so I'd have probably been able to get up there. To be fair they didn't let themselves down. The lad on the right in particular was great. He was as mad as a bag of spiders, throwing shapes all over the shop. He nailed his verse though. Ghost looked scared and impressed with him at the same time :P.

I thought Ghost ran the show. He is my second favourite ever rapper and it was a privilege to finally see him live. Thank god he was there and didn't decide to take the night off.

I didn't know what to make of GZA. When he was on the mic he was brilliant. Hearing "Liquid Swords" live was amazing. When he wasn't on the mic though he just hung at the back and sipped champagne. I was disappointed that he didn't do his verse from 4th Chamber. It is his song after all.

Raekwon was very good. Looked like he ran out of steam at the end of it all though. Great to see him live as well. Would have given anything to hear his verse from "260", which is one of the greatest imo. Wasn't to be.

Ghost and Raekwon worked well together in between songs. GZA just sat back and got ****ed on the champagne.

Overall it was a great gig. The Irish lads on before were alright. Two were good and two weren't. One of the lads tried singing and it was embarrassing. He didn't hit a single note and just made a fool of himself really. Anyone have any ideas of what their names were? The guy in the grey Nike tracksuit with the shaved head was decent enough.

Still can't believe that I've gotten to see 5 legends in rap playing in Dublin in the last 5 weeks. Long may it continue.

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Overall it was a great gig. The Irish lads on before were alright. Two were good and two weren't. One of the lads tried singing and it was embarrassing. He didn't hit a single note and just made a fool of himself really. Anyone have any ideas of what their names were? The guy in the grey Nike tracksuit with the shaved head was decent enough.

Grey tracksuit was Costello. The lad in the hat with the orange polo was GI, the other rapper (black tee) was 4Real and singer was Willa Lee.

GI for me is far better than the other two but Costello isn't bad to be fair. The thing with Willa Lee was he tried to get involved in every song, which given his distinctive voice didn't really work. He does sound good at times though, think Lethal Dialect's "Get to My Dreams"

Edit to give views on the WU:

Was alright for me. Thought they were going through the motions a bit. It was also one of those rap gigs where they do one verse then cut the song off just as you're getting into it, that does my head in at times. That said, letting the two lads on stage was unreal and like you say, fair play to the two lads, no pressure filling in for Meth and ODB

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Thanks. I missed all the introductions cause I was outside.

Willa Lee was ok when he was just rapping like the rest. His performance fell way, way off when he tried to sing. I was actually talking to him before the performance in the toilet. I didn't believe him that he was singing.

I felt a bit sorry for 4Real. I've no idea if it was his first time performing or what but Costello and GI didn't let him get a word in on the few verses that he rapped. They took their role of hypemen a bit too seriously and ruined it for me. They'd have been best off just leaving him go at himself and then just fill in the odd time. What they did was ridiculous imo.

They were going through the motions a bit, but no more so than anyone else does really. Ghost went a bit OTT with his "ye are the best crowd we've seen on this tour" claim, but Raekwon seemed sincere enough when he was talking about his previous gig, even if it was shít from what I heard.

I had a look around there and they let a few fans come on stage to perform the verses. Lucky for them though that they nailed the verse or the crowd would have been on their backs :P.

Does anyone have a even a vague idea of the setlist? I can only remember a certain few songs being played. I've a few videos on my phone and I'm trying to match them to the songs but I'm lost. The quality is rubbish so that's not helping matters.

I wouldn't feel too sorry for 4Real, he didn't have any sort of presence anyway. He stood in same spot on side of the stage for the whole thing, looking into the floor when he was doing his verses, wouldn't have made any odds if he wasn't there. And better if Willa Lee just stuck to when he had actual parts in a song instead of always getting involved.

As regards going through the motions, loads of rappers don't. Someone (maybe you) referred to Kanye and Jay-Z. Jay is the same age as these guys and he certainly doesn't go through the motions like Wu did last night. Saw Nas recently, he doesn't. They did have some very cool touches with the fans on stage and the lights out, lighters up bit but performance wise I wasn't overly impressed, they just didn't seem that pushed.

Don't get me wrong, I did have fun