Rock the Bells 2011: A Backpackers Dream!
Garcia_Vega
2,428 Posts
Shape up that chinstrap beard and that fade, dust off the cargo shorts and get a crisp pair of NBs, load up the jansport with markers, well thumbed copies of The Source (from when it was good), and your favorite tapes, because the 2011 Rock the Bells lineup has been announced, your favorite rappers doing your favorite albums in their entirety:
Ms. Lauryn Hill performing "The Miss Education of Lauryn Hill"
Nas performing "Illmatic"
Cypress Hill performing "Black Sunday"
Mos Def and Talib Qweli are Black Starr performing "Black Starr"
Raekwon and Ghostface "Only Built for Cuban Linx"
Mobb Deep "The Infamous"
Genius/GZA "Liquid Swords"
Souls of Mischief "93 till Infinity'
Black Moon "Enta Da Stage"
And More!
Faux_Rillz has his VIP tickets already.
Ms. Lauryn Hill performing "The Miss Education of Lauryn Hill"
Nas performing "Illmatic"
Cypress Hill performing "Black Sunday"
Mos Def and Talib Qweli are Black Starr performing "Black Starr"
Raekwon and Ghostface "Only Built for Cuban Linx"
Mobb Deep "The Infamous"
Genius/GZA "Liquid Swords"
Souls of Mischief "93 till Infinity'
Black Moon "Enta Da Stage"
And More!
Faux_Rillz has his VIP tickets already.
Comments
OMFG
Water performing "Wet".
if that was the S/T album I would be doing backflips
I demand Killarmy performing...um...you know...whatever the fuck that record of theirs was.
I probably won't go to this 'cause huge crowds make me anxious, but I'm happy as hell that the idols I grew up with are able to perform their classics to a sold out audience some 15-20 years after the fact.
On a somewhat related now, Earth Wind & Fire is playing the local casino this week. It's walking distance from my house. Should I go?
I'm gonna back away from my customary snark for a moment and agree with this. Personally, I have no interest in attending this show for the reasons Maru and Herm already mentioned, but I do think it's very cool that these groups can still get up and rock old material in front of an audience that's excited to see them do just that.
Or is this like the art laboe of hip hop now. or freestyle
Jam.
In fact, they might as well open a wax museum where you can hear such albums performed in their entirety any day of the week.
Oh yeah, they already have. It's called: The LP.
No gray hairs nor missing group members/guests at The LP.
I like most of those albums on their own, but like Harvey said, I can just listen to the albums. Or even better like 4YG said, the interest in their classics should inspire them to make relevant music based on the platforms that originally made them great.
i am burnt out on this shit and the hype man scream/muffled verses/half a verse song switch is tiresome
I would love to go see freeway in concert though
i had all but given up on hip hop shows for these exact reasons, but two years ago i got tickets to the GZA doing 'liquid swords' in it's entirety and it more than confirmed all of my thoughts. miserable experience. forgetting words, trying to other members verses, sitting down for half the show, taking ten minute braeks.....
a year later, i was walking past yonge/dundas square (outdoor toronto venue) and he was doing a free show with king khan and the shrines and the cool kids and it was more of the same yawnfest.
(cool kids were still new/hungry enough to put on a halfway decent show)
glad i did not go
i got free tickets for akhenaton (french rap legend) hopefully he will change my mind
I wasn't around and hanging out at the Apollo or Beale Street when they were in their prime.
So for me it was a thrill, and I saw lots of great shows, and a few that were cool, because hey it's Lightnin' Hopkins! even thought he was barely a live.
So yeah, for all you old guys here who saw GZA before and after Liquid Swords dropped, skip it.
But for people who weren't born back then this could be a big deal.
Is he in the states?
I would prefer the whole IAM crew..
I wish I had experienced this ill concert of them in Egypt between the fucking Pyramids..
My best EXPs are in medium to small venues. Ballrooms, High school gyms and shit.
Has anyone seen a great live show with a large ass outdoor 'woodstock' type crowd?
I saw Soundgarden and Metallica kill it one year at Lollapalooza. Unless you meant hip hop acts. Can't say I've seen that.
I meant Hip Hop
Exhibit A: Slow Motion video.
the soundset concerts out here that rhymesayers puts on are pretty fuckin live. i'm not feeling most of the acts, but you really get your money's worth and its always fun. the after parties are bonkers!
beastie boys.............. MAYBE. but i've seen them once and that was kind of enough.
yes. though i've never been to casino shows... how bad can they be?
DEF JAM TOUR in the late 80's was pretty great.