SYD EVENT - Jean Grae - Jan 4th

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oh man goodgod coming up with the goods. i was just thunking when i posted about jean grae in that idle warship thread that i would love to go see her, but never really got into pharoe monch, nor GZA.

anyways, jean grae is one of the best rhyme spitters in the game. admittedly i only discovered here thru the talib stuff, and have eagerly awaited a new release

anyways she doing a solo show at goodgod. early bird on now.

http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id ... eangraesyd

massive week that week. scratch perverts, whatever pops for new years, jean grae, then pete rock!!

please let spank rock announce a side show

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With all these gigs you keep posting you are going to make me the poorest Kent

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less than $20! but yeah im gonna be pulling out my reserve cards soon too.

still tossing on going yeezy. ill be in melbourne for the aus open so will have to watch it down there, but it will mean more nights accommodation.

and then theres death set and css in the next month too!!!

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event reminder. tonight at good god

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one of the tracks that really put her on the map. the third 16 is hot.

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oh man only if roots was her backing band today

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what an awesome show. great way to start the year.

got in about 9-ish, saw that jean greasy wasn't on till 11, and since i was solo dolo i thought id come back later. but then was digging the dj bad ezzy's beats so hung about.

then frenzie from the scratch perverts gig came on, this time ditching the dancehall for more straight hip hop.

and then the final opener dj was mk-1. but he was just providing beats for some of australia's finest female mc's to drop verses. man it was great. all of last year ive given much props to the other elements (graf, breaks and of course djing) but not much about mcing. but it was in full effect.

then for his finale he called up rapper rapaport and some other dude to just bust freestyles. then they just kept passing the mic around, with some of the grrls coming back on deck. it was great. one guy got a bit battly which was dumb (like cupe said in the other fred, i aint big on battles. i love freesytling. and i love the braggadocious, or even the witty snipers, but straight up negativity pfft), but in general it went for ages just verse after verse after verse; with mk-1 switching the beats maybe every third 16.

then onto the main act. first up grae's dj mr len (who i looked up and is famous in his own right) to warm us up. then out comes jean with everyone ready to take the roof off. she is absolutely awesome live, rapping, singing and straight vibing. some of the highlights:

when she went on a diatribe about how she hates when people diss party hip hop, and how the haters say that aint real hip hop, that aint true hip hop. and she was like fuck that, hip hop began about the party, and hip hop will always be about the party. fuck oath!!!

when she busted out the love raps (check my murs thread about how much i like the love rap). especially watching the heads not sure how to rock it, hahaha

and finally at the end when she had the whole club doing the 2step in unison. it was a beautiful thang. i wanted to record it but was so caught up in it.

only the words of treach capture the celebration of hip hop. hip hooray hooo hay hoo...

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i think this was the last track she played...

http://soundcloud.com/jeangreasy/u-me-everyone-we-know/s-KolbY

EDIT: i just found out this is produced by our own M-Phazes. nice!

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random event of the night.

one of the oz hip hop FemC's (mirrah) coming up and complimenting my wop. then we bust a move together