Original Gangster Ice-T along with long-time DJ Evil-E and with no less than four local opening acts was at the undersold Phoenix this past Thursday. As low attendance as the show turned out to be, Ice-T didn’t let the crowd down and rocked the house with excellent delivery of all of his old hits and [...]
What can I say? Nasir Jones holding it down in the T. Back to back classics from It Ain’t Hard to Tell to If I Ruled the World, Imagine That to more modern material like One Mic and Made You Look, this show was classic Hip Hop at it’s finest. The energy in the crowd [...]
What’s that? That’s right. Rakim, along with screaming (but still legendary) DJ sidekick Kid Kapri. Think of everything you’d ever wanted to hear live by Rakim. That was what the show was like. However the only thing more annoying than Kapri’s incessant screaming to hype up the crowd was the towel that the Paid in [...]
The Humble Magnificent, Boston native Edan and his collaborator Dagha dropped in to the Horseshoe with my favourite turntable magicians InsideAminD and local hip hop group Soliva Spit Society opening. I’ve only started listening to Edan a few months before the show, but I gotta say, the guy is wicked and his stage presence is [...]
This one is a biggie. Ice Cube in Toronto. Two images from this shoot were published by Exclaim! magazine in both their print and online editions of October 2006. Click here for the rest of the set.
