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Post by sp90s on Aug 17, 2023 15:43:37 GMT -5
Was kind of late popping my hip hop concert cherry, my first one was in 2006. It was a sweet show though. Non Phixion at the legendary CBGB venue with Jedi Mind Tricks and Immortal Technique opening and hyping up NP when they were performing. Q Unique Slaine Mr Hyde Sean Price Jeru tha Damaja all did guest appearances and baiscally everyone was just kicking it on the stage together most of the night.  |
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Post by eseph84 on Aug 17, 2023 15:59:12 GMT -5
wow that sounds dope. i've seen all of them live except slaine and jeru
my first was common and gangstarr in 2003 it was amazing!
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Post by djricochet on Aug 17, 2023 16:25:25 GMT -5
Observatory Swivel '96
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Post by nws1ne on Aug 17, 2023 16:28:52 GMT -5
It was so long ago I think I'm forgetting some of the acts...Das Efx, Dres of Blacksheep, Lootpack and Planet Asia - circa 1999.
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Post by AEOKQ on Aug 17, 2023 17:12:04 GMT -5
Damn good question.....pretty sure it was The Roots at the 930 Club in DC. Also like 1999-2000.
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Post by diagrams on Aug 17, 2023 17:24:53 GMT -5
Grandmaster flash and the furious 5 in the Bronx park in 79 with Kool Herc on the turntables and lots of cocaine , fun times . Crazy legs was breaking like hell off cocaine it was super illy
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Post by gino888 on Aug 17, 2023 17:28:45 GMT -5
Also the roots 2006 house of blues. Black thought had a white suit on.
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Post by buckthadevil on Aug 17, 2023 21:52:28 GMT -5
My first concert was Smoking Grooves like 94-95 I forget.
I don’t remember if it was in NY or NJ. I think it was Jersey.
I was dumb little like 14, and got thrown out for drinking, but I snuck back in I swear to god with the reversible football jersey and fkd my friend’s sister in her car.
It was Tribe, Gangstarr, PE, Cypress, Outkast and a bunch of others.
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Post by LEX718 on Aug 17, 2023 22:23:23 GMT -5
  This was the first show I went to in 99. Tramps was an ill spot wish I would have been able to attend more shows there. |
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Post by sp90s on Aug 17, 2023 22:37:49 GMT -5
This was the first show I went to in 99. Tramps was an ill spot wish I would have been able to attend more shows there. Damn you were actually at that show? That line up is legendary and that poster has been shared a bunch but ive never seen someone say they were actually at this show. Was there any thing worth mentioning about DOOM or Eminems set? Did they have people their with them? Did they ever share the stage or mention one another? |
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Post by LEX718 on Aug 18, 2023 7:51:36 GMT -5
Royce rocked with Em. The Outsidaz performed that night. This was the first public performance that I know of where dude had bleached hair but prior to that, I hadn't really seen much of Em outside of a picture in the source (with dark hair). This was the era where the only place I knew of to even hear much of Eminem's music was early undergroundhiphop(dot)com, yet nearly the whole crowd knew every song word for word. That's when I knew this guy was gonna be a big deal.
DOOM was dolo if I recall correctly. I think he may have had that OG mask from the ? video or something else over his face. I also saw DOOM rock at Brownies with Cage either later that year or in 2000. That was a much smaller venue, pretty much rocking at a bar in LES. He was alone that night too. Those early shows I visited were awesome, I saw a lot of great s**t for really cheap. Rolled to a lot of shows with my man Wry and his little brother Despot who had his friends Yak Ballz and Many Styles with us. Crazy how talented those guys are. I miss spots like the Wetlands and Tramps.
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Post by sp90s on Aug 18, 2023 9:26:45 GMT -5
Royce rocked with Em. The Outsidaz performed that night. This was the first public performance that I know of where dude had bleached hair but prior to that, I hadn't really seen much of Em outside of a picture in the source (with dark hair). This was the era where the only place I knew of to even hear much of Eminem's music was early undergroundhiphop(dot)com, yet nearly the whole crowd knew every song word for word. That's when I knew this guy was gonna be a big deal. DOOM was dolo if I recall correctly. I think he may have had that OG mask from the ? video or something else over his face. I also saw DOOM rock at Brownies with Cage either later that year or in 2000. That was a much smaller venue, pretty much rocking at a bar in LES. He was alone that night too. Those early shows I visited were awesome, I saw a lot of great s**t for really cheap. Rolled to a lot of shows with my man Wry and his little brother Despot who had his friends Yak Ballz and Many Styles with us. Crazy how talented those guys are. I miss spots like the Wetlands and Tramps. Ahh Lex that is so cool man. I love hearing stories about these old shows. And so you were friends and hung with Yak Ballz? I always thought Yak was very talented and definitely underrated. All his early songs are really dope when he had Mondee producing for him. |
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Post by gino888 on Aug 18, 2023 10:06:56 GMT -5
Was this the show lex where Eminem did the "I do pop pills, I keep my tube socks filled" freestyle?!
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Post by eseph84 on Aug 18, 2023 10:59:23 GMT -5
crazy how u were with i am many and despot! dope story's lex!
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Post by ern on Aug 18, 2023 15:14:43 GMT -5
Jedi Mind Tricks at Toad's Place in CT
Moe Pope was there and screamed into the microphone for a while
and some local act named modify sci that got heckled by somebody and they turned it around and did a diss song on him lol
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Post by hendo on Aug 18, 2023 19:18:10 GMT -5
Public Enemy in 1990
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Post by oghh on Aug 18, 2023 20:57:53 GMT -5
Wasn’t just hiphop but I went mainly to see Ice Cube. Also performing:
Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, soundgarden, Pearl Jam, I think Cypress Hill and a few others were there too.
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Post by djricochet on Aug 18, 2023 21:39:57 GMT -5
Wasn’t just hiphop but I went mainly to see Ice Cube. Also performing: Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, soundgarden, Pearl Jam, I think Cypress Hill and a few others were there too. Bought tickets for Rage last year as i'd never seen them live before so was well pissed when it was cancelled! |
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Post by oghh on Aug 19, 2023 0:28:30 GMT -5
Wasn’t just hiphop but I went mainly to see Ice Cube. Also performing: Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, soundgarden, Pearl Jam, I think Cypress Hill and a few others were there too. Bought tickets for Rage last year as i'd never seen them live before so was well pissed when it was cancelled! I haven’t seen them in decades but they definitely used to put on great shows. Best one I saw was in a tiny venue, the killed it and people were going nuts. They were actually part of my first taste of the music scene since Zach went to my school. Was around during the Inside Out days before Rage. |
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Post by diagrams on Aug 19, 2023 15:51:52 GMT -5
Imagine paying to see a rap show when you can stream it for free and have better sound quality in ya headphones then you’re paying for over priced drinks too? 😃😅😅🤣🤣😂😂😁😄😆🥲
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Post by oghh on Aug 19, 2023 16:47:33 GMT -5
I see there have been some deletions or editing but if you believe it’s better to stream music for free than see a live show, it’s probably a combination of a few things. First, there are a lot of so called MCs who just can’t rock a live show and don’t deserve the title of “MC”. A lot of live shows tend to have s**tty sound engineers so they aren’t doing the sound any justice or the space just isn’t made for it. Again, you probably just haven’t seen artists that can really perform because when you do, there is no way to get the same energy as a live performance from a recording. I’ll agree that well engineered recordings on a nice system or headphones will have a more consistent and clean sound in general but it’s not beating thousands of watts of live sound when that is done well.
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Post by diagrams on Aug 19, 2023 18:36:10 GMT -5
Get subwoofers and pro door speakers in ya car if you want to hear Loud music and mc means having skills on the mic it doesn’t make rocking live shows , I guess ICP are real mcs cuz they rock shows ? Not
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Post by diagrams on Aug 19, 2023 19:04:53 GMT -5
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Post by semeone on Aug 20, 2023 6:49:47 GMT -5
Imagine paying to see a rap show when you can stream it for free and have better sound quality in ya headphones then you’re paying for over priced drinks too? 😃😅😅🤣🤣😂😂😁😄😆🥲 If you really believe this ….. shrugs……but troll game is weak with this one …. or you don’t get out much…. ….. shrugs |
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Post by eseph84 on Aug 21, 2023 10:13:48 GMT -5
was just thinking how lucky i am that my first show was common and gangstarr
next one was bdk and killah priest
then i believe it was lif and ak
don't get much better for first 3 shows in 2002-2003 era. some legends and some greats on the rise! all still fav artists of mine. rip to the goat Guru!
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Post by sp90s on Aug 21, 2023 14:06:41 GMT -5
was just thinking how lucky i am that my first show was common and gangstarr next one was bdk and killah priest then i believe it was lif and ak don't get much better for first 3 shows in 2002-2003 era. some legends and some greats on the rise! all still fav artists of mine. rip to the goat Guru! My second show was not long after the NP show. I saw Raekwon and Mobb Deep with Boot Camp Click opening up. Nothing compared to those old Rock The Bells festivals. The years I went were all amazing.    |
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Post by eseph84 on Aug 21, 2023 14:52:18 GMT -5
crazy lineups!
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Post by LEX718 on Aug 21, 2023 15:09:18 GMT -5
Royce rocked with Em. The Outsidaz performed that night. This was the first public performance that I know of where dude had bleached hair but prior to that, I hadn't really seen much of Em outside of a picture in the source (with dark hair). This was the era where the only place I knew of to even hear much of Eminem's music was early undergroundhiphop(dot)com, yet nearly the whole crowd knew every song word for word. That's when I knew this guy was gonna be a big deal. DOOM was dolo if I recall correctly. I think he may have had that OG mask from the ? video or something else over his face. I also saw DOOM rock at Brownies with Cage either later that year or in 2000. That was a much smaller venue, pretty much rocking at a bar in LES. He was alone that night too. Those early shows I visited were awesome, I saw a lot of great s**t for really cheap. Rolled to a lot of shows with my man Wry and his little brother Despot who had his friends Yak Ballz and Many Styles with us. Crazy how talented those guys are. I miss spots like the Wetlands and Tramps. Ahh Lex that is so cool man. I love hearing stories about these old shows. And so you were friends and hung with Yak Ballz? I always thought Yak was very talented and definitely underrated. All his early songs are really dope when he had Mondee producing for him. Really more a friend of a friend but we were cool. Yak was kinda all over the place back then, he used to work at Footworkz in the Village. |
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Post by LEX718 on Aug 21, 2023 15:10:33 GMT -5
Was this the show lex where Eminem did the "I do pop pills, I keep my tube socks filled" freestyle?! Man, I really couldn't say.. I do remember Young Zee freestyling and saying "What I'm about to do to this uteris is slide in and out til the s**t smell like tunafish" LOL.. I think that was this show |
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Post by LEX718 on Aug 21, 2023 15:12:40 GMT -5
crazy how u were with i am many and despot! dope story's lex! Despot's brother is a close friend of mine to this day. Many was bugged out. Went through some different phases while I knew him from Raver kid to hardcore Polo head.. That kid was a genius in ways. When he would freestyle people walking by would just stop and form a crowd. He commanded attention. |
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