Something
like a rapper
Clipse
Concert Review by
: Los
HuStLeS
This event was held
in the Bowery Ballroom with Kidz in the Hall opening up for the
Clipse. The Producer/Mc duo managed to keep the audience on their
feet for the better half of their performance by going through material from
their latest album, "School Was My Hustle". Clothes hoes n
liquor, Chill ‘07 Until and Don’t Stop
seemed to keep the crowd entertained, but after what seemed to be a long set,
they started to grow weary of the two and made it evident who it was that they
came to see.
The Clipse came out and wasted no time before ripping through a set that included songs off of their latest album hell hath no fury to a slew of mixtape hits, where surprisingly, the audience kept up with every line. Each track filled with emotion, from the apologetic "Mama I’m Sorry" to the unforgiving "Chinese New Year". The way they connected with the audience was amazing, from handing the microphone to the crowd to asking what they would like to hear.
Next they brought out the Re-Up gang which consists of Roscoe P. Coldchain, Sandman and Ab-liva. The latter two who probably double up as the Clipse’s bodyguards, Both standing way over six feet and muscular build, had more of a laid back flow and weren’t as entertaining to watch as Coldchain who seemed to really enjoy emptying bottles of his water onto the audience.
Before going into
"what happened to that boy" they made it a point to bring up the Lil
Wayne and Baby kissing incident and question Lil Wayne’s sexuality.
One glance at Pusha’s face through the smoke clouds above the audience’s
head and you see the face of a man possessed as he pours himself into every
line Behind the Neptune’s most Cold-blooded and hardest beats to date.
At a time when every rap album needs an R&B singer to help push out the first commercial single, it was refreshing to watch a group that never changes to satisfy the norm, yet always consistent.
Never varying in subject matter, they still manage to keep every song fresh with their witty wordplay and poetic references to crack dealing, foreign cars and chilling street tales like only they can. With No R&B assisted hooks, the Thornton brothers brought us into a world they know, the only world they know.
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Clipse Concert Review, by [2007-03-24 07:05:32]
This article kept me interested from begining to end. You can tell that the writer knows what he’s doin & he does it well. I’m anxious to read the next article....this will be my reason for returning to hip hop galaxy.
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