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EVENT REVIEW: ScHoolboy Q – Nightmare at SOB’s, NYC
Story by Dashaun Simmons @13Rose | Photos by Richard Louissaint @richlouis What’s a sold out show at SOB’s to a LA rapper on the come up, do you need a reminder? ScHoolboy Q and his team from TDE Entertainment swooped down on Manhattan for the HOT 97 “Who’s Next” series, and bodied the scene. Hosted by Peter Rosenberg of the HOT 97 morning show, the packed venue waited (Continue)
The Roots Present: an undun performance… NYC Review
Twelve albums, multiple Grammy awards and a late night gig to round it all out. The Roots have come a long way from playing on the streets of Philly. In their present, an extremely packed audience is willing to stand on top of each other for the chance to hear their latest opus live. This show is the third and final in a series to introduce the world to Undun, their first concept album. Each m (Continue)![SHOW REVIEW: Erykah Badu & The Cannabinoids, Worth Every Dime [NYC]](http://fusicology.com/ImageCropThumb.php?src=/var/www/vhosts/fusicology.com/httpdocs/justfuseit/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Erykah-300x209.jpg&w=185&h=185)
SHOW REVIEW: Erykah Badu & The Cannabinoids, Worth Every Dime [NYC]
When word gets out that Erykah Badu is performing in your town, you don’t care if it’s just her or she has a crew along for the ride. You buy your ticket and pray she doesn't start 4 hours after the promised start time. A long way from her home of Texas, Erykah Badu and her band of merry men (The Cannabinoids), captivated a packed audience at New York’s Best Buy Theater. And they didn’ (Continue)
Black Star Still Shines Bright | NYC Event Review
Two Brooklynites who might have stood in Times Square as teenagers taking pictures with their friends, now command a huge audience at the Best Buy Theater. Things in the city have definitely changed and so have the people. Blackstar, known individually as Mos Def (or these days Yasin Bey) and Talib Kweli, are finally putting together a sophomore album. Their debut was released over 1 (Continue)
EVENT REVIEW: Red Bull Presents Mobb Deep & Lloyd Banks | 9/26, NYC
Red Bull Music Academy loves hip hop, and they want the world to know it. Their Five on Five series is a testament to the birthplace of hip hop. Five on Five showcases iconic artists from each of the five boroughs, (like Wu Tang, Slick Rick & Black Moon) to possibly remind people what hip hop used to be like. Starting off the series ironically with a Queens act performing in Manhattan seem (Continue)
MIXTAPE & EVENT REVIEW: Casey Veggies-Sleeping In Class, NYC
At the foot of Times Square with concrete and skyscrapers all around a scene is being nurtured. In the offices of Jay-Z's Roc A Wear clothing company (and the cooler less pushed Artful Dodger) "swag" rapper Casey Veggies is unveiling his re-upped Sleeping In Class. A reintroduction of sorts with new songs added to a project he released in 2010. The location was a warm showroom with a few ou (Continue)
Event Review: Kendrick Lamar Live at SOB’s
By Dashaun Simmons Twitter @13rose When some people think of a Baptist church, visions of pews, organs, and a choir come to mind. One key element to that scene is a person channeling energy from the heavens filling the room with spirit. Anyone in attendance for Kendrick Lamar’s sold out SOB’s performance in NY will tell you, he did just that. This Hiiipower congregation had to wait fo (Continue)
EVENT REVIEW: The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2011
The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival represents a new peaceful Brooklyn. A gentrified Brooklyn, which still finds time to pay respect to the music which made the poppers pop, and the breakers break. Q-Tip being an artist who got his start in the late 80s, is still putting out music and being well received seemed like the perfect headliner for this event. While the event was not perf (Continue)
EVENT REVIEW: Fort Greene Festival 2011
[caption id="attachment_6908" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Mighty Mos Def"][/caption] By Dashaun Simmons Once upon a time Fort Greene Park was a place where only Five Percenters and people looking for trouble would go. Nowadays thanks to heavy gentrification the park is very diversified and safe. People of all nationalities frequent this big hill of a park, some playing tennis, (Continue)
EVENT REVIEW: A Random Duck Down Night
By Dashaun Simmons It takes a lot of confidence for an underground artist on an indie rap label to perform two back-to-back shows in NY at different venues. What group would take on such a task? The most random group in hip hop Random Axe. The group is made up of three rappers from two different regions; Sean Price hailing from Brooklyn flanked by Guilty Simpson and Black Milk representing (Continue)
