Little Brother perform at the Mod Club as part of a tour promoting their recent album, Get Back.

I always love seeing Little Brother perform live. The Durham, North Carolina troupe caught my ear a few years back with the Chittlin’ Circuit mix tape and then the follow-up debut The Listening. 9th Wonder’s production was superb and Phonte and Big Pooh’s lyrical mastery was a story-telling rap fans’ dream come true. Get Back still offers a lot of the basic formula, and 9th’s absence isn’t terribly felt, but can be noticed nonetheless. Either way, the show was off the hook – I just wish they played more of that early mix tape and Foreign Exchange business rather than asking the crowd if they heard their album from “way back” called The Minstrel Show which was actually a sophomore release from way back in 2005.

Click on Phonte’s smiling face (or here) to see the rest of the set.