Hip Hop Gigs 2019

RasTa wrote: »

Tickets going on sale for this tomorrow at 10am. Think it's £80 for standing, not sure I can justify. Although I do live in Manchester

zoobizoo wrote: »

What are Wu Tang like live?

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Was at Gods Of Rap last night.


A bit underwhelming. For starters, the sound in the 3 Arena was atrocious. I was standing by the engineers desk (this is generally where you will have the best sound at a gig) but the engineers where just looking at their phones the whole time rather than trying to sort out the sound...well, an exaggeration, but anytime I looked their way they were not paying attention.



I missed the start of De La Soul, but they only performed 4 songs I believe. I arrived in before the last song which was Me Myself & I.

There was lots of talking and I don't think they performed the whole song.



Premo was doing his usual thing of playing 10 seconds of a song, then to the next one. He was also doing his thing of playing a sample he used in a song and then leading into his song with the sample. The crowd didn't have a clue what he was doing from what I can tell.
Premo was also getting flustered and not prepared and there was alot of dead air when he was searching for stuff to play.
When he did get songs played, he was playing classics though...although, just a snippet of the song.


Here is the next thing, it was Public Enemy Radio that was playing last night, which is a line up of Chuck D, some other MC, DJ Lord and the S1W.
The S1W are security/dancers.

It was great to hear Chuck in person delivering some of his classic lines in his booming voice. But the lack of Flavour Flav in songs hurt the performance. Early PE songs are very noisy, but due to the poor sound in the arena, it sounded horrible. I found myself listening to the lyrics to figure out what song was being played.

DJ Lord done a great little routine as well on the turntables.
The last couple of songs were great though, He Got Game was a highlight along with Fight The Power.


Premo done his thing again between, fairly un prepared again.


Then the Wu came out....well, some of the Wu came out. RZA, Rae, Ghost, GZA and Deck. They started performing bits of 36 Chambers. As they were going through the tracks, U-God and Masta Killa did join also. Cappadonna and Young Dirty Bastard also took the stage.
No Method Man.


They rolled through 36 Chambers, Young Dirty filling in for the Old Dirty verses. Sound was an issue still.
But the main problem was the lackluster effort from Ghost, Rae, GZA and Deck. They looked like they were just waiting for the cash to hit their bank accounts.....Deck did get into it more as the gig went on.
RZA was great, kept the performance rolling on and trying to get the crowd going although dressed like Janet Jackson.
Young Dirty was the highlight, he came with energy and an eagerness to perform. He even had a few wardrobe changes though the gig and ended up in the crowd at one stage.
U-God also did put in a bit of effort and livened things up when he took centre stage for his verses.

The highlight was Cappadonna doing the Winter Warz verse.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Was just talking to someone else that was there, yup, they played loads of songs so someone at the gig was lying to me