Whatever it was that you were doing on Tuesday should be pushed back so that you can enjoy some free New York City. Every summer there are a handful of events that you have to attend, either because the talent level is usually so high that you will never have a chance to see them for free, or because the artists bring something extra to the table that breaks from the norm. In both instances that will be the case in Fort Greene Park on Tuesday evening. LITTLE BROTHER and JOELL ORTIZ will be bringing their Hip-Hop music to Brooklyn.
JOELL ORTIZ actually hails from Brooklyn’s Cooper housing projects and he has been one of NYC’s best kept secrets for a few years. JOELL uses a super-tight flow and an expansive vocabulary to express his Hip-Hop. The gritty backpacker style from 1991 is how I might best describe his sound. In one of the borough’s best traditions, JOELL has the new anthem that expresses everything that Brooklyn brings to Hip-Hop.
LITTLE BROTHER is another Hip-Hop act that you won’t hear on pop 40 radio, but fans of rap will tell you that they are what’s really good. LITTLE BROTHER’s lead rapper, PHONTE, recently started a mini-firestorm when he said that most Blacks weren’t intelligent enough to understand his rap music. I think he has a point too.
These are the types of acts that deserve our support because they haven’t dumbed themselves down to fit into a radio or a clubscene format. If you would prefer to enjoy the chicken noodle soup then by all means stay in that lane. For those of you that want more from your artists this is your chance to support the cause. Oh and by the way, it’s FREE.
FORT GREENE PARK
DeKalb Avenue @ South Elliot Place
7pm
