[Note: I didn’t even know about this concert until my friend, Julie, got me tickets a week ago (a very thoughtful belated birthday present). Big Up to my boy Nate for the Camera. I Forgot Mine.]
We took the metro there and arrived at opening. The line to get in scretched down the street (full of privilged white kids, as expected). Suprisingly enough we got in and the club was pretty empty. We went up to the balcony to chill and Immortal Technique was walking around unnoticed until these two kids blew his cover after about 2 minutes. We decided it would be better to be stageside so we went downstairs and secured some great spots. And then came the waiting. Seriously, it was like 2 hours before anyone got on stage. Then this dude came out and said we were gonna watch a video featuring Technique, he was really excited that he got to debut it. It was terrible, I almost left. Then the show started…
Akir was the first act to come on. He did a great job of hyping up the crowd and his songs were good too. He sounds like a great lyricist I just don’t know any of his shit yet. He even let his hype man (dude in the green) do two of his own songs (he was actually better lyrically than Akir). When Akir’s set ended there was no long pause between acts. It went straight to Diabolic.
Diabolic put on an awesome show. His raps were incredible, he even dropped a few freestyles. He did some songs he was featured on off of Technique’s albums. Akir came out and did a song with him. He didn’t get the crowd moving as much, but his hypeman didn’t really come through in the hyping department.
Then Reverend Lennox Yearwood came on and started getting the crowd into a fever about impeaching Bush. He had been arrested the day before for a sit-in while trying to impeach Bush . It really got everyone into a mob mentality. I really wanted to break some car windows afterwords. And dismantle the corrupt government… and stuff.
Then came the headliner, Immortal Technique. When he came out all the openers joined him on stage and acted as a team of hype men. He ripped through some of his more well-known material, (Dance with the Devil, Peruvian Cocaine, Bin Laden) as well as some of his earlier stuff. Interspersed between his songs he gave short sermons on different issues, including topics such as:
– The Republican Party (Against)
– Racial Separation (Against)
– Record Industry Corruption (Against)
– Murdering Those Who Abuse Women (For)
He also took every opportunity he could to point out how we were all ignorant motherfuckers, and how incompetant his Dj is. Speaking of which, during the middle of his set he allowed his DJ to show off his skills, and dude is a scratch master. Diabolic and his DJ almost got into a fight after this when Diabolic accidentally sprayed some beverage on his turntables. After a bunch of songs Technique ended a long show and everyone left happy. I would definitely recommend seeing him live.
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Akir Performing:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=XxQRt8xAjDw[/youtube]
Diabolic Performing:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ch_XQSCMaUw[/youtube]
Technique Performing:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=8BkZXPaqRGY[/youtube]
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