C.S. and I enjoyed the ERYKAH BADU featuring the Roots concert from the less expensive seats. Truth be told is that there aren’t ANY bad seats in Radio City Hall when the soundmen are on their grizzly.
The Roots are the most legendary, as usual even though their set was brief. Keep in mind this was ERYKAH’s concert. They did some of their classics and some of the joints off ‘Rising Down’. The song ‘Criminal’ is becoming one of my all time favorites. Black Thought spit the entire Kool G Rap G.O.A.T. rap song ‘Men At Work’. Rappers can’t even pick up a microphone after this dude. I have said this a million times, but how sick is it when a nigga knows his catalog backwards AND your favorite rapper’s joints too?
Since I am such a shitty photog I kept the camera down and I just enjoyed Mrs. BADU’s performance. ERYKAH has such a commanding stage presence even though she is like only five feet tall. She has a knack for pulling off notes that you would never expect to come from her throat. She’s just indescribably fantastic. I would love to see her and JILL SCOTT team up again like they did at the CHAPPELLE Block Party and just go note for note. It makes me think of PATTI LaBELLE and NONA HENDRYX.
Speaking of the group LaBELLE…
I missed the show this weekend at the Hammerstein Ballroom that was a tribute to PATTI and the group LaBELLE because I was getting my bounce right at the KeiStar party with DJ SPINNA. It was an evening of ghetto karaoke as we danced and sung out classic shit from the 1990’s. Whether it was rap, new jack swing R&B or whatever we all knew the lyrics. The funniest moment of the night was when the entire building sung the chorus from Color Me Bad’s ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’. Hee fucking larious.
The next KeiStar party will be another STEVIE WONDER tribute. If you need me to tell you how good these joints are then you might should hang yourself from your bathroom shower with a pair of pantyhose like sonn did in that RICHARD GERE movie. That dude was a loser. Don’t be that dude.
I squeezed off a hundred bucks from my stimulus check to hang out Saturday night. A hundred dollars ain’t shit no more! Whose fault is that?
If you haven’t fucked with the McDonald’s sweet tea then you need to, or get yourself a pair of pantyhose and climb in a shower stall and you know what.
KEITA and SPINNA are my friends and I consider it a privilege to support their events in word and deed. If I was that type of nigga who is looking for a guest list hookup for ten dollars I would go to Rite Aid instead and buy a pair of pantyhose. I would then go home and climb into my bathtub and tie said pantyhose around my neck and shower faucet. Then I would turn on the water.
WTF?!? $13 is gonna make me start rolling with my flask again. Fuck it, the drinks were on G DUBBZ. Actually, the drinks were on me and my Social Security benefits.
At 4am on the Lower East Side while drunk people are stumbling around and puking their stomachs out I enjoy my sandwich and the scene.
Used to be a problem to get a cab ride into Brooklyn.
Ha! I still had a couple of dollars left in my hand. Too bad that Ripple is closed down. I could have used one more drink.
Me and ED LOVER on our way to a fitted hat convention. Okay, I’m lying.
