I got a chance to listen to ‘Marcberg: Reloaded’ the other night and that shit is a banger. I decided to start re-listening to the Marcberg album which was the best Hip-Hop/rap album of 2010.
I took a clip from the seminal flick Cooley High to set the mood for this sullen, brooding track. ‘Marcberg: Reloaded’ will be dropping in October. Stay logged on for more info as I try to put together a show in the Highline with Roc Marcy, Sean Price, Meyhem Lauren and a few other surprises.
Pretty Toney, Sheek Louch and Saigon make up the Wu-Block Tour which will be in NYC’s dopest venue Highline Ballroom on Wednesday, August 8th. Peep game…
Courtesy of the DP.com friends at Highline Ballroom we’ll prA’Li have some ticket giveaways here at the site as the day of the show approaches but get in where you fit in because this show will be OFFICIAL!
Wu-Block Party ft. Ghostface Killah
w/ Sheek Louch & Saigon
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Showtime @ 8:00 PM
Doors open @ 7:00 PM
Tickets $29.50 in advance, $35.00 day of show
I’m a little sad sometimes thinking about my dad passing away and how much NaS music I could have played him to prove that rap ain’t all trash. Knowing my dad tho’ he’d prA’Li still dismiss the music since it would still broach topics which he didn’t feel were progressive to Black people’s success.
My dad did NOT fux with drugs or the tacit approval that rappers give to the lifestyle of sale and consumption. That wasn’t my dad’s generation tho’. It is mine just like the Hip-Hop music which I chased thru marathon midnite cassette recording sessions and how I chased the Design markers to fill up my blackbooks and how I chased the Bally tennis shoes all thru Brooklyn until I found them on Fulton Mall is a half size too small. Like how I chased the Polo Ralph Lauren on the store racks or on other people’s backs.
Hip-Hop was always my barometer for what the good life should be. Sometimes that meant getting fresh and going to a party. Other times it meant gaining knowledge of self and going to college to gain knowledge of the world. Hip-Hop was info, style, communication, art, food, sex, everything. NaS new album reminds me that Hip-Hop can still be all of those things. And even tho’ my dad is gone beyond, and my mom isn’t always at my reach, and my debt sometimes causes me to get legal letters from the landlord, life is good.
Thank you NaS for the reminder. Life. Is. Good…
I just saw El-P and Killer Mike in what was prA’Li the best Hip-Hop show I have seen since I hosted the OnSmash showcase at the HighLine Ballroom back in 2010.
You remember that right?
The energy at the El-P show was palpable even tho’ it wasn’t as manic. At least not from where MattRaz and I were posted up. We couldn’t enterprise our way back into the VIP area so we chilled in the center of the performance space and just let the light and sound deafen our senses.
There’s somewhat of a disconnect in rap circles which says that Hip-Hop dance music can’t be lyrical. And conversely, dense rhyme songs aren’t danceable. El-P’s Cancer 4 Cure is the exception that I believe should be the norm.
Killer Mike’s ‘R.A.P. Music’ and El-P’s ‘Cancer 4 Cure’ aren’t albums I suggest you listen to from headphones. If you have to listen from your laptop I won’t judge you but both albums require that you be hip as well as do the hop. This means that you need to smarten up and see El-P and friends live and direct.
Here’s the handful of North American dates left…
Thursday 23 August 2012 – Grand Central – Miami
Friday 24 August 2012 – Beachem Theatre – Orlando
GO FULL RETARD!
