the dreaded photoblog

Wow, a full two months since my last post. I’m whack, I know.

This doesn’t mean I haven’t been making moves. I’ve got photos up of Lupe Fiasco, Slick Rick, and Pharoah Monch.

Let’s start with Lupe.

Dude showed up with like 17 backup singers and a live band. Live bands are becoming a bigger trend every day in the world of hip hop shows and I really don’t feel it’s a positive thing. Yeah we all know The Roots pulled it off and they make it work. But you aren’t, and you don’t. The backup singers I can deal with but the 5-7 additional cats with various instruments are unnecessary in my opinion. In all honesty as much as it annoys me, it wouldn’t have been so bad if the sound man had his shit together. Lupe has a great stage presence and the crowd was really into the show but I’m assuming most of them knew all of his songs. If I had never listened to him before I would have been heated because you could BARELY hear him over the band. Another controversial aspect of the show was the length of his set. I’ve been to a lot of shows. All kinds of shows, all different genres. I’m all about getting what you pay for and tickets were $20+ but lupe was on stage for 2 and a half hours. He damn near went through both of his albums in their entirety. I’ve never seen a headliner perform that long. ever. A lot of people might view this as a good thing, maybe I’m just a hater. haha. But I like Lupe’s music and it was a good show despite what i felt were shortcomings. 99.9% of the people there didn’t even seem to have issues with any of this so this is all just me talking.

Next Up: Slick Rick

I’ll write something up on this show when I get a chance. I’m at work.

Peace.