The Boot Camp Clik performed their ‘A Tribute To Classics’ show on Wednesday night in Brower Park. In the heart of Crown Heights they did classics from ‘Enta Da Stage’ and ‘Dah Shinin’. This is the the very neighborhood that birthed these artists. I can’t imagine any other place that this show would be more like a homecoming. We’d have to be on the Franklin Avenue shuttle maybe. I don’t know how we’d get the whole band on the train though.
The Boot Camp Clik is what backpacker rap is all about for me. My Jansport knapsack with the sueded bottom held my Sony walkman cassette player, my Garcia y Vegas, and a boxcutter for whatever whatever. The Boot Camp Clik defines that era succinctly. Even to this day they remain independent artists that haven’t sold their souls, or their publishing, out to the lowest bidders. The Boot Camp Clik has taken the high road in Hip-Hop(literally and figuratively) and this is why they are so important as artistic role models.
Salute these brothers when you see them on the streets.
This show was right around my block, I really wanted 2 catch this but had a mtg in mid-town. Eff my mtgs.
Buckshot’s performance throughout the night was one of those rare moments when I can say I saw an MC and not a rapper. Its an old, almost cliche KRS One-esque point to make, but its true. That’s why I fucks with oldhead rappers, because they’ve had the time and experience to deliver a great show.
Great show, excellent band– DP, I’m bad with names, who’s the drummer again?– and it really makes you proud to see Brooklyn brothers holding it together like that. It was funny too seeing Rustee Juxx hyped up opening and doing a freestyle AFTER the show ended while holding his kid. His Sean P. presents album was kind of a mess (Black Milk and P.F. Cuttin’ beats were heat tho’) but he you know he really feels it. Smif N Wessun’s last record was pretty damn good too, far more rugged and respectable than most old man rap and– sorry– I like Joell here a lot more than on Slaughterhouse (context is everything):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiDxsNO4-dU
Cool to see Steele in a Biggie t-shirt, especially since the whole BCC movement ought to remind folks of BK hip-hop culture without what I consider the baleful Jay-Z hegemony.
Chris, don’t forget KRS-One and Buckshot for FREE (which fits my budget just right) on the 29th at City Hall Park.
RUCK DOWN!!
Willis- Word? I’ll have to catch that. KRS was great at Crotona the other week.
dp, you got your boy digging in the crates right now. Give the mp3 player a break for the day.
WSS,
Yeah man what’s up? The drummer’s name is DARU JONES and I ask everybody to stay on the lookout for this brother. He did the drums and production for Idle Warship (Talib Kweli + shit I forget they names). He’s NOT to be slept on.
The show in City Hall Park on the 29th sounds epic. Sneaker Fiends Unite tour that same day too. I’ma have to line up the movement so that we coincide with that show.
One of the chicks in Idle Warship was Res, fine-ass occassional model and songwriting muse I guess or Santigold (if you could call her writing Res’ album that)