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In case you weren’t fortune enough like ML to attend the show, Amalgam Digital put up a live stream to gaze over.

You can only imagine what the crowd looked like Thursday night at S.O.B.’s with Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5’9 on the bill. Wall to wall mean-muggers, all drunk and ready to hear some murder-raps. As Joe commented at one point, “Joe Budden fans don’t dance!”

I came late and just missed Royce’ set, but I was just in time for Joe Budden, who would have rocked it better if the sound system weren’t completely fucked. I maneuvered the crowd and found Crooked I in a less crowded corner by some drunk girls – the only females in the building except for the bartender. Crooked seemed to remember ML and was telling me how he’d like to see Royce and Eminem do an album together.

The crowd went nuts when Joe brought Crooked and Joell on to do a capella freestyles. The eight foot tall mean-mugger next to me was jumping up and down and screaming like a girl. Royce joined them they tried to do some Slaughterhouse joints, but the malfunctioning sound system wouldn’t allow it. They did a song or two a capella before I left.

Crooked and Royce stole the show, I’d say.

ML was at LIV Night Club last night to check out BYT’s 19 hour party (sadly, we were there for only about a 4th of that..there was some obscure ceremony going on downtown that we decided to check out.)

This was our 4th time seeing Wale live, making it his best that we’ve seen yet (and it softened the agony of missing out on that epic NYC show he had last month). Wale ran through his most known cuts like Nike Boots to W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. (favorite of the night?), in addition to performing 2 debut album cuts for the 1st time. Wale performed the Cool & Dre produced Chillin (the final version, which isn’t out, will feature Lady Gaga) and Pretty Girls. Wale’s stage presence should be in a textbook for all rappers performing live, the crowd was feeding off of it all night. The vibe of the whole club was so dope, that it seemed Wale didn’t want his time to end, scrambling last minute for a make-shift encore featuring a line over My President Is Black (“My President is Black, my credit card is too./ but my credit is fucked up thanks to that previous dude“) as well as inviting local-bred producer/rapper Oddisee to freestyle a quick 16.

Wale also had a few PSAs through out his set that stuck with us:

*UCB x Wale album coming soon (separate from the debut).

*If you hear someone mispronounce his name (ie Whale or Wall-E (Wale predictied that he’s gonna be bigger than the Pixar joint).. smack that person for Wale .

*Tre (of UCB) wrote a Lindsay Lohan (or say it like Wayne: Lo-hann) song.

*Wale is signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.

The event in of itself was kick ass, there were 2 floors of live music, cheap Colt 45s, intermissions with Burlesque Dancers and Comedians (Tig Notaro). We even got some good new music on to our radar, Team Facelift (who might be the wildest partying pack, I’ve ever seen live?) & Team Robespierre.

Peace to Dan & Wale; Victor & the BYT crew for organizing such a dope event.

Check the whole set of our pictures at the Flickr page. Seeing as I used my dslr camera at a concert for the first time, I plan on getting better at it, to see dope(r) fisheyed photo’s check out BYT’s stash.

Lastly, check what Washington Post had to say about Wale’s performance.

S.O.B.’s is where it’s at this week. Mickey Factz tomorrow and Slaughterhouse on Thursday.

The high priced Jay-Z concert at DC’s Warner Theater is starting to seem that it was worth the price of admission:

Edit: NR has the studio version of Jay-Z’s verse in Mp3.

Jeezy performs Put On as well at the end.

But I have to ask, where is Nas.. he was in town on Sunday?

In case you haven’t seen it, Jeezy & Hov premiered the track on Friday at Club Love.

Beyonce did her Single Ladies track too:

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With the Knitting Factory closed, S.O.B.’s is the main spot for smaller shows in New York. Joe Budden is bringing along his supergroup of Royce Da 5’9, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and himself; Slaughterhouse. While I haven’t been crazy about any of the slaughterhouse tracks thus far, it’s sure to be a memorable show with so many big names on the bill.

Buy tickets here and if you’re not in NYC, there’s going to be a live webcast here.

The homie 88-Keys is going to be performing and signing CDs at Fat Beats  next week. If you’ve never been to a show (if they can really be called that) at Fat Beats, the artist performs three or four songs and afterward, it’s usually chill enough that you can get up in his face and tell him lame you think his album is. The place is a true house of hip-hop. And did I mention it’s free?

via FatBeats.com Blog

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As close as ML will get to experiencing this show from the Tuesday, that we literally just mentioned.

Wale is getting on that Phish tip, getting his full concert recordings on the internets. Annnnd did I just hear a Nirvana cover on W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. ? *rewinds*

Stolen without shame from Elitaste who got it from OKP High Voltage (who runs The Roots Live).

Wale – Live on 12.9.08 @ Highline Ballroom, NYC

Alex passed this over to me, Hip Hop shows with a live band=win, and this one will have a full horn section to boot.

Ticket Info: $10 Advance/$15 Day Of Show

We arrived at the club late so we missed Big Pooh and Termanology, who were opening for Meth and Red. They came on late, but they had the crowd jumping after the first song. Redman arrived on stage in sandals with a blunt in his mouth. He kept watching for club personnel, and then had someone in the crowd light it.

They started out with Wu-Tang stuff, then they moved over to some of their solo work. There must have been some sort of problem in the first row because they kept alternating between trying to calm down and antagonizing this group of people up front. Between songs they kept noting the fact that How High 2 was coming soon. They also alluded to Blackout 2.

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