Jeru/DJ Shadow in Vancouver review....(sorta)
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Well, I'm sitting at home, pondering my recent experience observing Jeru
the Damaja rip shit up live here in Vancouver in front a pretty much full
house. I'm beggining to wonder why peeps say he has a wack stage show.
For a one man show (well, we can pretty much rule out Afu's little
replacement, he wasn't too effective) I was pretty impressed. Jeru had
some quality crowd hyping techniques, and commanded quite the presence on
stage. He bucked mostly shit off his new album, but of course did all the
old classics, (and I was actually somwhat impressed with the Vancouver
crowd, which is typically completly dry). At the end of the show he
strated to kick some freestyle, hinting at that he wanted a challenger, but
unlike his experience in Montreal, nobody stepped up. Although I have no
doubt that there were several emcees in the crwod that could have torn at
least Jeru's freestyle to peices. Interestingly enough, several people in
the crowd kept shouting for him to kick "Static", for which he had
forgotten the lyrics (or at least said he had) and had to improvise when he
tried to kick it... it was amusing. In fact, surprisingly enough Jeru was
quite the clown on stage.... but I didn't think much of some of the jokes
that he tried to pull off using some of the honeydips in the crowd as
targets... but as he might say "whateva!". He does indeed contradict
himself a little.... after preaching "anti-playerism" for how long now...
the first thing he does after the show is to try and pick up/play some
girls I know... who naturally were forced to dis him off nice and
goodlike (although I'm sure he found some other "ho" to take advantage of
for the night). All in all... despite a few drawbacks and
dissappointments... the show was by far the best performance I've seen
since I moved to this city two years ago... so I can't front.
As for DJ Shadow, what can I say.... he played his whole album is
seemed... plus a few tracks I've never heard. Then as a surprise...
Latyryx (Latif The Truth Speaker and Lyrics Born) came on and rocked some
solesides shit.... which wasn't all that well received... It was wierd,
because all the triphop/acid headz who were there to peep Shadow couldn't
really get into it cause it was "too hip hop" it seemed... but they weren't
"hip hop enough" for the Jeru fans to get into it... problem!
I'm tired, and since I only posted this because I was bored and don't want
to hit the sack because I know I gotta write an essay in the morning when I
wake... ah well...I'll just have to be on my way...
going to check out De La Soul tommorrow night... if anybody interested ...
I'll hit ya'll with a review!
peace
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E. Gotico
Seattle Review:
Well folks, I have to say that Jeru didn't quite have the show I thought
he would have, not that I had a preconcieved notion of one. But I didn't
find him all that exciting. I liked the show, but I too found him as sort
of a clown. He said a few times that he forgot the words to his song, and
had to start over, and his freestyle wasn't all that great. But I did
however like the chant he started. ANd he kicked a couple of his
freestyles over a beat that he had the crowd do rather than the DJ. As for
DJ Shadow, not much to say. He did his album live. Thats it. It was cool
to listen to while we were chillin' in the lounge waiting for the show to
start. There really wasn't much to see.
I have to be honest and say that the highlight of the show for me was
seeing Latryics. They were hella dope. Tight I tell ya. Lyrics Born has a
little sway is his step when he rhymes. All in all a tight show. Oh yeah,
another major highlight was when Jeru did "Come Clean". I love that shit!!
Peace
Tre'
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E. Gotico
OK, mad props to De La and the promotors that put the show together. One
of the best shows I've seen and well worth the $18. It went down like
this:
The show started late, as most hip hop functions do for some reason. First
up to bat was a local crew by the name of "Ghetto Children" from Tribal
Music Inc. You guys have to open up to this cuz they are tight. Vitamin D
is hella dope. Check out their new LP "DO the Math"Ghetto Children have
dope freestyles, dope beats, dope rhymes, and simply have a dope flow.
Next was this chick from Canadia. Her name excapes me at the moment, but
she was cool. Kinda on that trip hop/funk/alternative/morbid tip. Sorry, I
don't know how else to explain it. But she was hella cool.
Five Fingers of Funk from Portland, OR. I liked the band. They had a bass
guitar, drummer, sax, trombone, keyboard, tamborine/bongo drum man,
trumpet, A DJ and an Emcee. I really liked the band, and the DJ was hella
cool. The Emcee was cool too, a white guy who had a dope beat box..
For the feature artists...De La Soul. Words can not describe how hype
theywere. They did all the shit. It was like a party. It really was a
party when they played "Flashlight" and had everyone dancing. You all just
gotta check it out...the review would take too long. Believe me its hella
worth it. The finale was Buddy...mad I was waiting for it all night.
DOPE!!!
SOrry for the long winded review, its kinda late and I said dope about
150 times. Oh well.
B. David Harrison
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, E. Gotico wrote:
>
> OK, mad props to De La and the promotors that put the show together. One
> of the best shows I've seen and well worth the $18. It went down like
> this:
This is why I hate the fact that I'm 20... two great shows in three nights
and I can't go to either... I did get a chance to check out a show Nes
(and some fool named Micheal Dean) did on cable access called "Eye on
Seattle." A group that I've heard a few times before on the radio was on
Oraclez Creed, they're really nice, but the TV sound bit... I don't think
they had the beats miked at all, so basically all the songs they did were
acapella, with whatever the MC's mics picked up from the speakers...
despite that, these guys are dope. One local DJ DV-1 was supposed to be
on there, but either I missed him, or he didn't show... Interesting
program... designed to give both the Seattle, rock and hip-hop some pub.
David Harrison
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to myself, man she wasn't that fly." You Ain't Fly- The Roots
Michael C Devlin
Yeah, I went to the show they did at La Luna in Portland a couple nights
ago. My partner and I were a little late, comin' in at the end of a set
with a couple of guys with no stage presence. I'm not sure who they
were, one guy was white, the other guy might have been mixed or
something(not that it matters, just for i.d. purposes) and dj Shadow was
backin 'em up. I don't know if he did anything earlier, but for the
three or so songs we caught he only added a couple of scratches here and
there. So that was disappointing. It seemed like forever while we
waited between sets with some trip-hop/techno type shit that was makin'
my head hurt. Jeru came on like he was gonna rip some shit, but it
turned out to me a pretty mediocre show. The dj was kinda weak. It was
cool how Jeru divided the crowd up to do the chorus on "Come Clean", but
after the first
verse, he let the crowd go too long, the dj got off beat, and Jeru ended
up not even doing the second verse and did some freestylin' instead,
which was again mediocre. It kinda fucked up the song, but at least he
represented. There are too many muthafuckas comin' on the radio and all
this talkin' 'bout "here's a freestyle, I'ma represent" and they come
with the writtens! That's just bullshit! If you ain't gonna represent
with the freestyle, don't fake it, just don't call it a freestyle. These
fools are all scared that they're gonna come off weak. If they do, that's
their fault, they need to pay more dues in the cipher. Freesytlin' is
about takin a chance, just goin' for it, whatever comes. Anyway(sorry,
had to get that off my chest) Jeru seemed a little bit like "what the
fuck am I doin' in Oregon?" but at least he made the appearance. It
surprised me to, that about 90% of the audience had virtually no ties to
hip-hop(maybe trip-hop, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a different
ball park). I thought the place would be empty, with about 100 headz,
but there was a decent crowd. Anyway, if you made it through this much,
I'm sure you're tired of reading, so I'll shut up now. Peace.
Melow
B. David Harrison
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Michael C Devlin wrote:
> Yeah, I went to the show they did at La Luna in Portland a couple nights
> ago. My partner and I were a little late, comin' in at the end of a set
> with a couple of guys with no stage presence. I'm not sure who they
> were, one guy was white, the other guy might have been mixed or
> something(not that it matters, just for i.d. purposes) and dj Shadow was
I'm guessing this was Laytrx (but I thought they were both black)? Or
is it some other Solesides groups? How many other folks have seen them
live. I'm digging the album, but was wondering how they came off on stage.
QUIZativ
B. David Harrison <wa...@u.washington.edu> wrote in article
<Pine.OSF.3.95.97040...@saul6.u.washington.edu>...
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Michael C Devlin wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I went to the show they did at La Luna in Portland a couple
nights
> > ago. My partner and I were a little late, comin' in at the end of a
set
> > with a couple of guys with no stage presence. I'm not sure who they
> > were, one guy was white, the other guy might have been mixed or
> > something(not that it matters, just for i.d. purposes) and dj Shadow
was
>
> I'm guessing this was Laytrx (but I thought they were both black)? Or
> is it some other Solesides groups? How many other folks have seen them
> live. I'm digging the album, but was wondering how they came off on
stage.
Yup, it was highly likely that it was Latyryx.
Latyrix are not black although they may be partly black (who knows).
They are touring with Dj Shadow at the moment, so it makes sense that it
was them...
peace
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DJ Shadow: white
Lateef: black
Lyrics Born: half Japanese/half white
Chief Xcel: black
Gift of Gab: black
Interestingly, most of the Solesides immediate staff: Zen, J Dubb the
Enforcer, Mean Gene-O Oaklander, Ice Water and so forth (peep the credits)
are Asian American. No complaints here.
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B. David Harrison
Of course Ollie loves 'em, 'cause they give him a shout out in the album
notes... :-) How many of the rest of us can say that...
E. Gotico
Personnally, I dig Latyrics. I thought they put on a good show here in
Seattle. It was cool. But I think there was something wrong with the sound
because it was hard to hearthe lyrics. ANyways, Lyrics Born (formerly Asia
Born) is Japanese. I'm not sure about Lateef...I think hes
black...yeah.The crowd in Seattle was kinda weak. Our Hip Hop crowd scene
is kinda different than any other place I've seen. Its got a "Whut up
kid..I'm from New York" mixed in with Alternative heads that dig the Hip
Hop beats along with the laid back underground heads. THese were the only
people, as far as I could tell, who could fully appreciate the two in its
full light. But thats just the vibe I got from the crowd.
Peace
Tre'
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, B. David Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Michael C Devlin wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I went to the show they did at La Luna in Portland a couple nights
> > ago. My partner and I were a little late, comin' in at the end of a set
> > with a couple of guys with no stage presence. I'm not sure who they
> > were, one guy was white, the other guy might have been mixed or
> > something(not that it matters, just for i.d. purposes) and dj Shadow was
>
> I'm guessing this was Laytrx (but I thought they were both black)? Or
> is it some other Solesides groups? How many other folks have seen them
> live. I'm digging the album, but was wondering how they came off on stage.
>
>
> David Harrison
> Live from Seattle
>
> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wasup
>
> "... as she walked away man, I couldn't deny. Started lyin'
> to myself, man she wasn't that fly." You Ain't Fly- The Roots
>
>
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