WORST rap show you've attended
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For whatever reason it has to be memorably awful for one reason or another...I'll kick things off with the RZA. He had a bunch of guys on stage. Nobody knew who the fug they were. They basically karaoke'd wu-tang songs. The RZA seemed tore up and you didnt get more than a mumble out of him. Lucky my ticket was free!
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Yeah his Sydney show was the same but we stole his Hennesey bottle which made up for it....
At least he didnt do strickly bobby digital stuff, he thru ina few old 36 Chamber verses and that dope one he drops on GZAs 4th Chamber. The other dudes were annoying, Cilva Rings was half palatable but then he did a whol 10 min rant on Israel/Palestine...and Im thinking...why not f*cking RAP about it cunt....
You just described most rap shows! LOL. I could make a huge list of bad rap shows I've seen. Why are there always like 20 random dudes on stage with mics just wandering around? Let's make a list of good rap show performances instead.
lethal was cool, i brought him to the dealerman and he dissapeared in a cloud of smoke.
i could have put on a better show in my underwear
Also, Dilated Peoples, if you can call listening to a DJ spin top 40 rap all night while you wait for DP to take the stage, they finally get on do about 2 songs then leave in a huff. Disappointing.
otherwise
highlight of sxsw.
=every De La show in the last 10 years.........
Sen Dog didnt show up but his voice did...
the 'DJ' (not Muggs) was pretending to cut and scratch over a DAT and must have known he looked like a cunt because he ended up putting record sleeves up all around the decks so noone could see his hands.
then cube came on and was so out-of-shape he couldnt make it through most of his own verses so his hypeman had to pick up most of the slack.
i did get blown by a girl i had never met in the crowd though so F*ck it: Great show.
Me to this young lady backstage: "Are you a friend of the band?"
Her: "I'm the electric fiddle player."
What part of the game is that?
For the Flobots, right? Ugh. So awful. I'm still scarred from that TV appearance I happened upon.
Oh man. KRS did this same shit when I saw him a couple of years ago. Is this a requirement in the True School Handbook? His show was pretty good otherwise, and his pacing was good and all that, and then he would just mess up the flow of the show with this shit. "Yes, Kris, the real hip-hop is still over here like we were five minutes ago. We haven't left."
Also, I saw Kool Keith twice, the first time we saw him at tower about an hour before the show and he was looking at his own cds. I guess it got him hyped because his show was live as F*ck. The next time I saw him he came out about 2 and a half hours late and was on stage for about 30 minutes. Shit was awful.
Second worst was Kool Keith, really failed to live up to expectation and stage prescence was non-existant. What annoyed me most was the stage wasn't very deep so he spent most of his set leaning on the DJ booth facing his hypeman so all you really saw was his right arm. Although he did hang around in the bar afterwards (trying to mack this minging girl) and he was quite affable when I spoke to him, which is a shame really. Kutmaster Kurt is an awful DJ too I seem to recall.
Has anyone here ever tried to get a refund from a promoter/ticket seller because you felt the performer was, well... shite basically....?
Not seen Melle before but someone was telling me he came over to one of the B-boy championships in the 90's and was doing the whole muscle flex thing. Unfortunately a certain member of the crowd (he used to draw the covers for Big Daddy magazine) started flexing their (presumably non-existant) muscles back at him which he wasn't too happy about and I think he went off in a huff...
Kool Keith was easily one of the worst too, although he did bring the comic relief. Dude went on a rant about - no lie - Cal Tjader (which he pronounced Cal Tuh-jader) after the whole "I don't need! Roger Troutman. I don't need! Bootsy..." thing. Dude went off. It was so random, and amazing. And yeah, Kutmaster Kurt on the DAT player. "Play another joint Kurt!" Keith would scream every two minutes or so. He barely made it through any songs. It was painful.
I've been to plenty, far more than my share, of bad rap shows over the years... but those two stand out for their ambiguity.
Yeah he did the whole go-on-two-hours-late-and-perform-for-30-minutes thing when I saw him but there was some comic relief too: he threw out snacks to the audience, I wanna say like fried chicken in plastic sandwich baggies and individual Doritos bags?
I saw that show down here - I didn't pay attention to him but some of the younger dudes I knew there left thinking he was the truth!
He tore Wetlands up though.