When you are rocking Wallabees you don’t need much else.
Last night, hangover and I hit up the Boost Mobile Rockcorps show over at the 9:30 club. The only way to get in this show was to do volunteer work at the Latin American Montessori Bilingual School the day before. When we got there the balcony section was closed off and for a good reason. About 80 people tops were in attendance (9:30 usually sells out with a 1000+) which was sort of a double edged sword (more ‘private show’ but a pretty lackluster crowd). After WPGC’s DJ Quicksilver (who spun 95% south records from Young Joc to D4L :X) complained about being set up and hung out to dry, because from what I understood the acts took too long to come out, but I didn’t really mind because shit like that always happens at hip-hop shows. First came out Tru-Life shining with his ROC chain (who else wears roc chains? I know Hov really dosen’t) and did a quick gritty set, with about 3-4 songs and some acapella joints dissing Dip-Set with highlights calling Jimmy Jones, “Jenny Jones”, no one knew any of his material so he kind of left the stage in a hurry, it was as dead as I’ve ever seen a crowd. Also he had a woman DJ, anyone know who she is? Then came out Rickyyy RAWWWWSSSSSSS, he did his thing, he had the largest (in weight and numbers) posse of the night, some real mean grillin dudes who probably dont smile. ever. His set was average but it was evident that most of the crowd cared/knew only him on the bill. After he did his 30 minute or so set, he left and so did about 80% of the crowd (I wonder what role the DC youngn 10PM curfew had to do with that). But we were there to see the man that provides the namesake of this fucking website, without a rapper like him still around we’d probably be laffytaffy.com (disgusting thought). After about a 45 minute delay due to some traffic Ghost was stuck in, the man still didn’t fake on us. When he arrived from backstage yelling in his signature smooth yet high pitch “All 10 of y’all up to the front!!”, everyone who was left (somewhere around 20-30 people), followed god’s directions. And boy he didn’t dissapoint, he could’ve pulled some shit and did a few quick songs and dipped but he didn’t, he delivered about a 50 minute long set including Be This Way, Run, Metal Lungies, Crack Spot, Dogs of War, Shimmy Shimmy Ya (ODB tribute), Triumph, Back Like That and some others. Not once did he mention that Fishscale was in store as many rappers tend to do dozens of time during their performances. At the end Trife was jokes shouting out to Boost Mobile asking for some free phones and $20 phone cards. After he wrapped up Ghost was the nicest dudes I’ve seen after show chillin with the fans and talking, it was surreal. Even his manager Mike Caruso was mad nice taking a picture of us with Ghost (on Stage!), I’ve seen too many managers in that position that would tell you to get lost. Seeing Ghost with such a small crowd was surreal, I think this is def. one of my highlight of maybe the decade.
Check out the whole photo album here. Those pics are compressed and don’t look as hot as the full high res ones do, if you’d like some of those shout me a holler.
I also got some videos, audio sucks cause it was so loud but I’m going to youtube/google video tomorrow.
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