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Like spirit in his post above mine, I've been to so many it's just near impossible to name just one favorite, but I've got a few I'll start with at least.
Most Memorable: - Spitkicker 2000 at the Palladium in Worcester (MA) ... I was still young enough to be totally blown away and star struck by the artistry of these newfound heroes of mine. Biz, Reflection Eternal, Common, De La Soul ... I mean damn. And it was just such a perfectly executed show. I still have the bubbles they threw out into the crowd, I got "Maseo's Spit" LOL
Most Notable: - Rock the Bells 2008 on Randall's Island NY ... RATM reunion, plus WuTang, BlackStar, Nas, PE, Rakim, Badu, Monch, Murs, Cypress Hill. I mean, what a fucking lineup. Lot of great memories and stories from that show.
Favorites: - Naughty by Nature, 2004 at the horseshoe in Southwest at UMass Amherst ... it was my sophomore year in college and this was seemingly just kind of a halfassed, random show they'd be putting on a week before the main event spring concert which featured a newly-famous 50 Cent (he fucking sucked, I can elaborate if anyone cares). Anyway obviously me and my friends were all Naughty fans (who isn't) but we didn't expect much cause by then they had kinda been forgotten and we figured they may kind of mail it in. But holy fuuuuuck did they put on an absolutely incredible show. My boys and I got right near the stage and they just blew us away. They played all the hits and were absolutely hype, so we were hype (and high) and it was dope as hell.
- Common & Talib Kweli, 2004 at Amherst College (MA) ... same time period, same crew, same type of small(er), more intimate crowd. This show was cool and unique cause they had like half the show planned; Comm did his relatively short set, Kweli did his own semi-short set ... then they came out together and literally just asked the crowd what songs we wanted to hear. I'd never experienced that before nor since. And it worked flawlessly. The crowd didn't disappoint, we covered all the classics and they did both songs they were on together and solo songs. For the solo songs, the other artist would play hype man and just interject when needed. It was soooo so dope. Glad I got to experience a unique show like that.
- PRhyme, 2015 at Paradise Rock Club in Boston ... again, a smaller, more intimate crowd (noticing a theme here ?) and in this case it was dope cause everyone in that place knew every word to every song so the whole fucking joint and the whole fucking show was HYPE. The first PRhyme album is probably in my top 3 of the last 5 years so at that point it was all I'd been listening to for the 4 or 5 months leading up to the show so we were all just jumping and rhyming along and it was awesome.
Show I regret missing: - It's a bunch of artists I wish I'd seen over the years but the only one I actively *regret* (because I had the opportunity to go and waffled about it and didn't end up pulling the trigger) was the OutKast reunion a few years back. I kick the fucking sheets pretty much every night and beat myself up over not biting the bullet and making a trip to one of those shows. Ugh I'm cringing just typing this now. Probably the last chance I'll ever have to see one of my two favorite hip-hop groups and I waffled cause I would've had to travel for it. And I travel all the fucking time.
Ugh. Make it stop. Fuck me. ----------------------------------------
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