Long Ass Summer Jam Recap
You heard me hype it up major a couple days ago. I was hella pumped to be going to Summer Jam. Shouts to my ex-boss Renee for hooking up tix even after I don't work for KUBE no more.
I'm bout to bring you the recap, or if ya want to be corny about it, the re-rap. Please lemme know if you find a better review of Summer Jam '07 and I will post a link.
First plan on the agenda was getting into the ampitheatre. There was a long ass line stretching around the fence on the outside.
"Maybe I should call some people and see if we can get in faster...." I thought to myself, "Nah this line will probly move pretty fast. No need to ask for favors."
An hour and 20 minutes later I'm thinking,
"Damn I am sick and tired of waiting in this line. How come the closer we get to the entrance, the thicker the line gets? Why do these legions of people think it's coo to walk right past us and join the cats at the front of the line?"
When we finally got thru the gate there was only one thing on my mind...seeing T-Payne? No. Whatching Shop Boys act a fool to Party Like A Rockstar? Wrong again.
Yall know me, constantly on my grizzle. I was around thousands of cash-carrying hip hop fans so it was time to get to mixtape slinging.
It was tough to get into the swing of things. I didn't have my boombox so I had to rely completely on the mouthpiece. At first I would approach people with my regular old spiel and that wasn't working so hot. For example, I would start off like I usually do,
"What's up, are you into hip hop at all?"
That is a pretty dumb question to ask when you at a huge rap festival. Little things like that were screwing me up at first. Eventually I reworked things and started having success.
I quit telling cats I do, "positive hip hop" and instead said things like, "we got hard lyrics like Nas, who's performing here by the way."
Those little adjustments made a huge difference and I ended up killin it with the sales. I sold like 11 in two hours and I only quit cuz I ran out of mixtapes. I was pissed cuz a bunch of my cases cracked to the point that they was unsellable (you gotsta have pride in your product).
After that, I went to my seat to watch the rest of the show. All I had missed was Shop Boys and Mike Jones. I didn't really care about that. Besides, I could hear Mike Jone's squeely voice the whole time from where I was at, all the way by the concession stands.
I rolled there w/ the homie Praxis, the other half of the mighty crew estrella. I'm definitely more into mainstream stuff than him, but I think he had fun too tho.
T-Pain put on a real entertaining show. He's a good performer, hella funny. The only annoying thing is most of the time he wasn't really singing, he was just kinda dancing with the mic held up to his mouth. I know that kinda contradicts what I just wrote about him having an entertaining show, but it really wasn't boring.
You just know something is fishy when T-Pain turns his head mid-verse to look at his DJ, without bringing the mic with him, and somehow his singing continues ringing out loud and clear.
The thing is, there were a couple times when Pain actually sang...vocoder box free! He sounds really good, he definitely got lungs, I just wish he had sang more.
Bone was next. I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest Bone fan. I didn't grow up listening to them or anything. But it was still fun watching their set. It's weird that one of them is in jail right now, so the group up and got a replacement. They have a new guy (can't remember dood's name) but he seemed to fit in well enough. I mostly chilled during their set but the crowd was lovin it.
Next came QB's finest. Yall know who I'm talkin about, the nastiest mc! Last time I saw Nas was at Bumbershoot a few years ago and it was the second best hip hop show I ever seen. Leave a comment if ya wanna know what the best show I seen was.
Nas had a lot to live up too and once again he killed it. Granted, it wasn't as dope as the first time I saw him, but it was ill seeing him perform his latest stuff. I am a big fan of Hip Hop is Dead, I think it's easily as ill as his old shit and if you disagree...please give the joint another listen. That album is mad deep.
The highlights of his set were:
He told the crowd that if he ruled the world, he would serve us all a portion of Bush's head on a silver platter.
He said, "Fuck the industry shit, fuck commercial hip hop!" (Remember, this was a KUBE 93 event, they are as commercial as Company Flow was independent)
He covered Smells Like Teen Spirit and gave props to Cobain as one of the realest artists.
A couple girls sitting a few rows in front of us started slow grinding on each other during his performance of One Mic. For those who don't know the song, this is a real deep, slow song that is also very touching and it's definitely not the time to break off your homegirl.
That was funny/annoying but it was even funnier when a girl a couple rows behind them threw her Coca-Cola classic at them. Then it turned into the same ol' predictable verbal battle.
"Fuck you bitch."
"No fuck you!"
There was also a guy who was friends with the girl who had new Coke stains all over her shirt. He was pissed and ready to fight, but to his dismay, the only people opposing him were women, so there was really nothin' he could do.
Ludacris was the headliner. Anyone else find it blasphemous that they made Nas go before Luda? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Ludacris fan. I think he's one of the illest mcs breathing, but Nas is a certified legend.
Once Luda came on tho, I quickly realized why the lineup went like that....Seattle is in love with Cris. They got so much more hype than when Luda came on, it was ridiculous. By then it was dark and Luda ripped it as always. He went thru so many hits and the funny thing is, he didn't go thru close to all of them.
Cats in the crowd was throwing those green glowsticks, straight up bombing them. One guy in front of us almost threw a leaking glowstick. The homie stopped that tho, cuz nobody wants to have bright radioactive looking Green Goblin type of ooze all over them.
One big surprise that happened was Chingy showed up on stage. Not that I was particular excited to see Chingy. He didn't even do the joint I like best, Holiday Inn.
Anyways, if you didn't know, the two of them are working together again. It seems they put the beef aside to come up on some paper.
After the show, Praxis and I tried to outrun everyone to the whip so we could beat traffic...ya right, that didn't come close to working out. We are fast runners but it turns out we cannot outrun a stadium full of people.
Traffic was crazy slow on the way home. Yall know how it is with these kind of events. You have to get used to sitting in your car and you better not stress out cuz it does no good. The funniest part was having the windows rolled down and hearing the music blasting out of every car.
It was one KUBE song after another. 8 hours earlier, when we arrived at the joint, I asked Praxis, how many people you think are here cuz they are hip hop heads and want to see some dope mcs and how many people are here so they can see cats they always be seeing on BET/MTV.
The ride home answered that question.
Taybot
I'm bout to bring you the recap, or if ya want to be corny about it, the re-rap. Please lemme know if you find a better review of Summer Jam '07 and I will post a link.
First plan on the agenda was getting into the ampitheatre. There was a long ass line stretching around the fence on the outside.
"Maybe I should call some people and see if we can get in faster...." I thought to myself, "Nah this line will probly move pretty fast. No need to ask for favors."
An hour and 20 minutes later I'm thinking,
"Damn I am sick and tired of waiting in this line. How come the closer we get to the entrance, the thicker the line gets? Why do these legions of people think it's coo to walk right past us and join the cats at the front of the line?"
When we finally got thru the gate there was only one thing on my mind...seeing T-Payne? No. Whatching Shop Boys act a fool to Party Like A Rockstar? Wrong again.
Yall know me, constantly on my grizzle. I was around thousands of cash-carrying hip hop fans so it was time to get to mixtape slinging.
It was tough to get into the swing of things. I didn't have my boombox so I had to rely completely on the mouthpiece. At first I would approach people with my regular old spiel and that wasn't working so hot. For example, I would start off like I usually do,
"What's up, are you into hip hop at all?"
That is a pretty dumb question to ask when you at a huge rap festival. Little things like that were screwing me up at first. Eventually I reworked things and started having success.
I quit telling cats I do, "positive hip hop" and instead said things like, "we got hard lyrics like Nas, who's performing here by the way."
Those little adjustments made a huge difference and I ended up killin it with the sales. I sold like 11 in two hours and I only quit cuz I ran out of mixtapes. I was pissed cuz a bunch of my cases cracked to the point that they was unsellable (you gotsta have pride in your product).
After that, I went to my seat to watch the rest of the show. All I had missed was Shop Boys and Mike Jones. I didn't really care about that. Besides, I could hear Mike Jone's squeely voice the whole time from where I was at, all the way by the concession stands.
I rolled there w/ the homie Praxis, the other half of the mighty crew estrella. I'm definitely more into mainstream stuff than him, but I think he had fun too tho.
T-Pain put on a real entertaining show. He's a good performer, hella funny. The only annoying thing is most of the time he wasn't really singing, he was just kinda dancing with the mic held up to his mouth. I know that kinda contradicts what I just wrote about him having an entertaining show, but it really wasn't boring.
You just know something is fishy when T-Pain turns his head mid-verse to look at his DJ, without bringing the mic with him, and somehow his singing continues ringing out loud and clear.
The thing is, there were a couple times when Pain actually sang...vocoder box free! He sounds really good, he definitely got lungs, I just wish he had sang more.
Bone was next. I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest Bone fan. I didn't grow up listening to them or anything. But it was still fun watching their set. It's weird that one of them is in jail right now, so the group up and got a replacement. They have a new guy (can't remember dood's name) but he seemed to fit in well enough. I mostly chilled during their set but the crowd was lovin it.
Next came QB's finest. Yall know who I'm talkin about, the nastiest mc! Last time I saw Nas was at Bumbershoot a few years ago and it was the second best hip hop show I ever seen. Leave a comment if ya wanna know what the best show I seen was.
Nas had a lot to live up too and once again he killed it. Granted, it wasn't as dope as the first time I saw him, but it was ill seeing him perform his latest stuff. I am a big fan of Hip Hop is Dead, I think it's easily as ill as his old shit and if you disagree...please give the joint another listen. That album is mad deep.
The highlights of his set were:
He told the crowd that if he ruled the world, he would serve us all a portion of Bush's head on a silver platter.
He said, "Fuck the industry shit, fuck commercial hip hop!" (Remember, this was a KUBE 93 event, they are as commercial as Company Flow was independent)
He covered Smells Like Teen Spirit and gave props to Cobain as one of the realest artists.
A couple girls sitting a few rows in front of us started slow grinding on each other during his performance of One Mic. For those who don't know the song, this is a real deep, slow song that is also very touching and it's definitely not the time to break off your homegirl.
That was funny/annoying but it was even funnier when a girl a couple rows behind them threw her Coca-Cola classic at them. Then it turned into the same ol' predictable verbal battle.
"Fuck you bitch."
"No fuck you!"
There was also a guy who was friends with the girl who had new Coke stains all over her shirt. He was pissed and ready to fight, but to his dismay, the only people opposing him were women, so there was really nothin' he could do.
Ludacris was the headliner. Anyone else find it blasphemous that they made Nas go before Luda? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Ludacris fan. I think he's one of the illest mcs breathing, but Nas is a certified legend.
Once Luda came on tho, I quickly realized why the lineup went like that....Seattle is in love with Cris. They got so much more hype than when Luda came on, it was ridiculous. By then it was dark and Luda ripped it as always. He went thru so many hits and the funny thing is, he didn't go thru close to all of them.
Cats in the crowd was throwing those green glowsticks, straight up bombing them. One guy in front of us almost threw a leaking glowstick. The homie stopped that tho, cuz nobody wants to have bright radioactive looking Green Goblin type of ooze all over them.
One big surprise that happened was Chingy showed up on stage. Not that I was particular excited to see Chingy. He didn't even do the joint I like best, Holiday Inn.
Anyways, if you didn't know, the two of them are working together again. It seems they put the beef aside to come up on some paper.
After the show, Praxis and I tried to outrun everyone to the whip so we could beat traffic...ya right, that didn't come close to working out. We are fast runners but it turns out we cannot outrun a stadium full of people.
Traffic was crazy slow on the way home. Yall know how it is with these kind of events. You have to get used to sitting in your car and you better not stress out cuz it does no good. The funniest part was having the windows rolled down and hearing the music blasting out of every car.
It was one KUBE song after another. 8 hours earlier, when we arrived at the joint, I asked Praxis, how many people you think are here cuz they are hip hop heads and want to see some dope mcs and how many people are here so they can see cats they always be seeing on BET/MTV.
The ride home answered that question.
Taybot
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