The Highline Ballroom has been the home for some of NYC’s best Hip-Hop shows over the past two years. In the last two months I’ve gone from watching Lil’ B to Das Racist and now to SlaughterHouse all tear up their stage. SlaughterHouse ended up taking that shit a little too literally by ending the night with a brawl, but then again, that is the rap music they embody to the masses. Black hoody, Timberlands, punch you in the face 1990s NYC rap music.
The wrinkle that I saw SlaughterHoiuse add to their show was when they invited several fans onto the stage to try and recite some of the lyrics from their songs. It provided a light moment which proves the band doesn’t take themselves too seriously. They are serious about their rapping tho’. And the guest performers that added to the bill were all proven lyricists – Bun B, Pharoahe Monch, and Lloyd Banks. The SlaughterHouse concert was more of a homecoming celebration than a victory lap.
This bodes well for all of Hip-Hop.
SlaughterHouse and collectives of rappers with strong pen games still has a wide open lane on the rap music highway. Lil’ B and the adamantly quirky Das Racist also have their respective lanes. While the latter two might seem to receive all of the ‘ink’ from new media outlets SlaughterHouse is demanding they stay in the spotlight. They could have gone away after the collective’s first album didn’t meet the commercial level of success that most people has already attached to it.
SlaughterHouse recouped their swagger while on the road performing before huge crowds and sold out venues. They all knew that they had something together and just needed to give it time. SlaughterHouse returned to the NYC stage last night a bit wiser, but still as cocky and confident as they have always been. Rap music needs SlaughterHouse. Rap music needs groups of performers that believe in their own greatness. If there has been one steady complaint about the current crop of high profile rap artists its that they don’t believe they should be winners.
SlaughterHouse KNOWS they should be winners and how strong is their movement now with the Hip-Hop Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis recording from the same studio? It almost isn’t fair to put this much power in Joe Budden’s grasp. I hope Royce can keep him contained long enough to get some of Dr.Dre’s advice, and more importantly his soundscape. I don’t think we’ve seen the best yet from SlaughterHouse. Rap music needed this adrenaline shot in the arm. So it could get back to punching people in the mouf.
wonder why nobody gave dp a suckerpunch….slaughter!!!!!!!!!!!
explain why Joell Ortiz had the weakest verse and delivery on “Apollo Kids”? none of the other three are worth your ball sweat, i don’t care that Royce had two hot verses back in the 90s or someshit. U-God alone >>>>> Slaughterhouse combined.
Fuck Joanna buttons!!!!
Slaughterhouse look exactly like them 4 niccas who work at your local T-Mobile and they roll into the gym together to play basketball and to hit on fat white broads on the elliptical machines that sweat under their titties.
Say I’m wrong.
^correct!
damn… yelawolf…. really…
I don’t know what their appearance has to do with the quality of the rhymin’. lol at the U-God reference. And, does this mean that Budden and Fiddy will jump a track together?
haters…haters…haters…slaughterhouse is one the hottest collectives formed in recent years
Royce…Niggas refuse to listen, and I mean LISTEN to him, but yet everyone wanna talk shit about he aint been nice since the 90’s …go get street hop and listen to it…..then tell me that shit
Buddens..nice, just am uncontrollable asshole
Ortiz…What?!?!
Crooked I…okay….
foster–
u “lol” a U-God? i laugh at nerds who write “lol” and urge you to LISTEN. U-God is, verse for verse, almost on par with peak-Raekwon, just behind Ghost as the best (and weirdest) writer out of Wu.
Laughterhouse rhymin’ is dogshit too, foster. i appreciate DP’s loyalty to Joell but not everyone reaches their potential or, in his case, had more than he offered on “The Brick.” it was mostly nice– and that’s IT. game fucking over. battle rap nerds and big hearted friends trying to pretend otherwise doesn’t change that.
you want to talk SLAUGHTERHOUSE: do the real fucking knowledge and and study your constitutional history, i.e. the Slaughterhouse Cases.
these four clowns are forever LAUGHTERHOUSE and merit zilch attention from any of us.
U-God?!? GTFOH
I wasn’t lol’in in derision. I fux with Golden Armz HARD (II), almost moreso than the rest of the Clan, mostly because of no nonsense, gruff, almost old-school flow. I thought his last album was mostly great, save for some of those last club remixes that closed it out. I saw my man Verbal Kent open for U-God and that herb Wiz Khalifa in Chicago, and was extremely disturbed when I saw and heard the hometown crowd boo anybody on stage that wasn’t that pencil-body twerp. I mean, you gonna BOO a Wu-Tang member? I almost cried a bit that night thinking about the calamitous state of rap affairs nowadays.
thanks for clarification, foster. “Dopium” was excellent– and imagine if we knew what was going through Uey’s head with those awful ‘house remixes’ or whatever the hell they were?
DP, I’m surprised an “Eight Diagrams” man like yourself would say that! Though admittedly I’m starting trouble by calling a T on Joell Ortiz hype.
>>>> LAUGHTERHOUSE career –>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yRX6p1oKbg
I don’t understand why people that love boom bap don’t wanna see SlaughterHouse win?
U-God fucking sucks. Dude had one good verse and a few decent ones on Forever. You probably could have made a better point using Cappadonna. Smh
I fux with Cap, as well. I dig Boom-Bap, but not exclusively. I think Slaughterhouse is ok, they just don’t have a lot of dynamics to their favour. I think that a similar formula (rap-ass rap ni@@uhz) works better within MMJB, and probably because of the Philly locale (no sh@try Philly eMCees, imo), but even that can get monotonous after awhile. They need to switch up and not all appear on every track together, maybe do some stronger concept content on songs. We’ll what Shady does for/to them. Didn’t Em already have a D-12?
I agree with them needing not to appear on every track with each other. That’ll get old quick. However, Slaughterhouse >>> D12.