First and foremost, shouts go out to the Brooklyn Bodega crew that pulled off a masterful coup this month by singlehandedly saving Hip-Hop culture. Their events celebrated pioneers of music, graphic art and filmmaking. They extended an open invitation to artists from several generations of Hip-Hop to come together for the love of the movement. They even got ERNIE PANNICCIOLI to come out of his house. ERNIE took this flick of Uncle BAM and me.
The month was topped off with one of the best outdoor concerts ever executed, mainly because it was absolutely free, and mostly because it took place in the planet of Brooklyn. Thousands of people came through to enjoy music that was old and new from some of the greatest performers that have ever held a microphone. LARGE PROFESSOR, DRES, FAT JOE, CONSEQUENCE, SMIF-N-WESSUN, HELTAH SKELTAH featuring SEAN PRICE, and the THEODORE UNIT featuring CAPPADONNA and BIG GHOST.
Personally, my biggest enjoyment was building with some of you folks that stepped to me to shake my hand. Fellow bloggers like STRAIGHT BANGIN’ and video bloggers like ILL DOCTRINE had come through as well as my peeps from D.C. and Virginia and Connecticut. The iNternets Celebrities put in hell’a work too so stay tuned for some of that video. Internets nerds stand the fuck up!
The Boot Camp Clik represented thoroughly for Brooklyn. SEAN P spit some of that fire from the Jesus Price album and then teamed up with his homey ROCK for some O.G.C. classics.
CONS to the QUENCE brought his energy to the show and gave us some of his G.O.O.D. music.
The Wallabee champ was in rare form and the Theodore Unit held him down respectively. WU TANG has the greatest collective catalog in rap music and getting a special appearance from Big GHOST original weedcarrier CAPPADONNA made everything that much better.
Here are my photos from the show. This concert was so good that I’m already lining up for next years’ Festival.
if i didnt have to work ….i would have been there ….fuxor
dope recap…too bad the G5 was low on fuel or I would have been there….
Man, I had a megablast out that joint this weekend. Seeing DJ Scratch rock at the afterparty was a blessing too. It was good meeting all of you cats finally and good looks on the freebie at Sputnik, son! I’m sure I’ll be there next year.
If I wasn’t in a wedding….**sigh**. Great recap…..now I know exactly what I missed. Brooklyn always does it up big.
what happened dallas? =(
Missed out, my aunt passed on thurs. Gave the tixs to the security guard at the plantation. He’s a young head so it will be interesting to hear his review.
I catch a lot of flack for this but Capa is in my top 4 fav Wutang members. I like him better than Meth.
Good Lookin on the tix D.
Heltah Skeltah…Ghost…I should of made a trip up there this weekend and attended this event. I am a huge BCC fan. Sean P is the muthafucking truth. One of the illest lyrical cats in the game right now and his album is hot.
Damnit
Yo that Cappadonna Clip is Bananas……..good ish DP
Support the culture…cheers.
i had no idea about this until Rafi hit me with the math on it. i couldn’t have made it anyways, but damn that shit looked ill. i wonder where i can get a GFK mighty healthy cap? super official…
dallas, “what up my dude?”
hahahahahahahahahahaha
it was good to meet you man, roni had been telling me what a stand up individual you were, and it was nice to have an internet celebrity of such stature live up to expectation… i’m gonna link up this rundown on the blog today, so good lookin out – the pics you took are great too. got some joints of you throwin up big W’s during ghost’s set also, so imma get your email from young ron and send them your way… we’ll definitely keep you posted on all the upcoming shit man, and thanks again for your support.
-bodega james
(the skinny weirdo in the white sunglasses, ayooo!)
Wish I could have been there….
Eloheem Star, condolensces on your aunt passing. Some things are obviously more important
Yes^ condolences.
Jimmy Valentime was in the buliding Ie park
got my photo taken by Getty Images
http://www.myspace.com/jimmyvalentime
I gave mixtapes to all the press people
Ill give you one if you want…..
^^^^^Khal – http://www.mightyhealthynyc.com/store
‘Heem – condolences.
Dallas & Rafi = GREAT TIMES!
Yo DP I found Greg Odens Father, Yes Luke I am you’re Father ……Its up on my Bloggle check it big homie
Loved the enegry, sunshine, beats and art. One thing was missing- out of all the aritisits who blessed us with music, there was only female preformer? Where are the female voices? I know you are out there!! For planners next year- consider BK’s women!
Women are irrelevent.
You ain’t get the memo?
nice one, 40!
littleteenz
[…] Big ol’ elephant sized shouts to our homie (and fellow Bodega habitué) Dallas Penn for coming through – check out his glowing recap of the fest right here… The Internets Celebrities were in full effect (also pictured, Rafi – face obscured by dudes elbow). The ladies must have been besides themselves with lust, gentlemen. […]