im watching TI on the VMA's and im thinking how pointlless and annoying it is to watch a rapper and his countless cronies shouting over a prerecorded track.
besides seeing an emcee backed by a live band, or getting to see a legend in their prime, is live hiphop ever good????
when i saw edan a couple months ago i thought that shit was awesome! and up until then i was constantly hating on live hip hop shows, they were wack.
if i could see a couple more like the edan show i saw i would go regularly.
Run DMC Tribe LONS De La Nice N' Smooth Gangstaar Pharcyde MF DOOM M.O.P Edan Beastie Boys Roots BDP Big Daddy Kane Outkast Goodie Mob Dead Prez Tha Alkoholiks Ghostface Redman LL Cool J
I've seen probably a hundred hip-hop shows and there is just too many bad ones to mention... including the above. For me a good hip-hop show usually incorporates a live DJ with Skills (Run DMC, BDP,Gangstarr, Kane, De La) and sometimes dancers (Pharcyde, Kane, Nice N' Smooth, Outkast). For the most part the "live" hip-hop bands are just horrible lounge funk ( Common, DJ Quick, etc) but sometimes there are surprises (Outkast's DJ/bass/guitar/back singers/dancers line up works for me?)
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when i saw edan a couple months ago i thought that shit was awesome! and up until then i was constantly hating on live hip hop shows, they were wack.
if i could see a couple more like the edan show i saw i would go regularly.
Run DMC
Tribe
LONS
De La
Nice N' Smooth
Gangstaar
Pharcyde
MF DOOM
M.O.P
Edan
Beastie Boys
Roots
BDP
Big Daddy Kane
Outkast
Goodie Mob
Dead Prez
Tha Alkoholiks
Ghostface
Redman
LL Cool J
I've seen probably a hundred hip-hop shows and there is just too many bad ones to mention... including the above.
For me a good hip-hop show usually incorporates a live DJ with Skills (Run DMC, BDP,Gangstarr, Kane, De La) and sometimes dancers (Pharcyde, Kane, Nice N' Smooth, Outkast). For the most part the "live" hip-hop bands are just horrible lounge funk ( Common, DJ Quick, etc) but sometimes there are surprises (Outkast's DJ/bass/guitar/back singers/dancers line up works for me?)
I liked Mos Def with Maseo on the wheels and Digalbe Planets had a respectable band backing them up on the Blowout Tour.
Not really rap but Ice-T with Body Count was cool.
De La was horrible. Saw BEPs (pre-Fergie) once at Bumbershoot (had no idea who they were)
In general I avoid hiphop live like the plague