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4. "BOSTON REVIEW "
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HERES THE RUN DOWN GOT IN AROUND TWO OCLOCK HIT UP THE PAID DUES STAGE CAUGHT MYSTIC JOURNEYMEN DO TWO SONGS BEFORE I HEAD OVER TO THE MAIN STAGE THEY WERE GETTING THE CROWD AMPED (DEFINETELY COULD TELL THE PAID DUES STAGE HAD A MORE STACKED LINE UP THIS YEAR LAST YEAR THERE WERE ONLY LIKE 20 PEOPLE IN THE CROWD AT ALL TIMES.) THEN RAN OVER TO THE MAIN STAGE CAUGHT THE END OF CHARLIE TUNA IT WAS KIND SHITTY DUE TO SOUND PROBLEMS. AFTER CHARLIE I WALKED PAST THE PAID DUES STAGE AND HEARD EYEDEA AND ABILITIES DUE A SICK FREESTYLE THEN RAN BACK TO THE MAIN STAGE AND OUT CAME K'NAAN WHO WENT THRU A FEW OF HIS SONGS FROM THE DUSTY FOOT AND THEN GAVE US HIS NEWER STUFF STRANGELY MISSING WAS ABC'S WHICH I THINK WOULD HAVE GONE OVER WELL WITH THE AUDIENCE. ANOTHER THING HE DID WAS TRY TO DO AN ACAPELLA BUT WHO EVER WAS ON THE PAID DUES STAGE AT THAT TIME WAS SO HYPE I THINK IT KINDA KILLED THE VIBE OF WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO GO FOR . BUT ALL IN ALL I WOULD SAY HE DID PRETTY GOOD.RAN BACK O PAID DUES SAW PSYCHO REALM DO A SONG OR TWO THEY HAD THE CROWD HYPE AND THEY DID THERE THING. SAW NECRO FOR A MINUTE DUDE SOUNDS LIKE COOKIE MONSTER I GUESS HE TRYING TO BE ON SOME DIFFERENT SHIT WITH HIS DEATH RAP BUT ITS NOT REALLY FOR ME I GUESS. REFLECTION ETERNAL CAME OUT RAN THRU THE CLASSICS BUT CAME OUT LATE SO KINDA RUSHED THRU THE SET I'VE SEEN TALIB BEFORE AND FEEL THIS WASN'T HIS BEST PERFORMANCE. GOT OVER TO SEE BUCKSHOTS WHO RIPPED THE STAGE TO SHREDS ALSO KRS-1 CAME OUT DID SOUTH BRONX AND THE BRIDGE IS OVER THEN THEY DID THERE NEW SONG ROBOTS WHICH WAS DOPE. AFTER THAT THEY TRADE FREESTYLES BACK AND FORTH AND THEN DID ROBOT AGAIN FOR EMPHASIS.
UP NEXT WAS M.O.P. AND THEY WERE HANDS DOWN THE BEST ACT ON THIS STAGE MAYBE BOTH STAGES THEY WENT THRU TONS OF SHITS, 4 ALARM BLAZE, COLD AS ICE, HOW ABOUT SOME HARDCORE AND OBVIOUSLY ANTE UP WHEN ANTE UP CAME ON THE CROWD LOTS THERE SHIT AND THERE WAS A HUGE MOSH PIT. ALSO M.O.P. BROUGHT HOW LOCAL CAT TERMANOLOGY WHO CAME OUT AND DID WATCH HOW IT GO DOWN. AFTER HE DID IT YOU COULD SEE HIM ON THE STAGE LOSING HIS MIND FOR THE REST OF M.O.P.'S SET. THEN WE WENT BACK TO THE MAIN STAGE FOR AN UNFORTUNATE SURPRISE COMMON WAS ALREADY MID WAY THRU HIS SET HE SWITCHED SET TIMES WITH HOUSE OF PAIN /LA COKA NOSTRA SO I GET THERE AND TALIB IS ON STAGE FINISHING A SONG WITH HIM. THEN HE GOES INTO LOVE OF MY LIFE WHERE HE DID THIS THING THAT HE WOULD SWITCH UP THE SONG TO OLD CASSIC HIP HOP SONGS IT WAS PRETTY GOOD. HE DID, THE PEOPLE, THE FOOD, GET EM HIGH AND UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL SO AT LEAST I GOT TO SEE SOME GOOD ONES. THEN OUT CAME HOUSE OF PAIN WITH LA COKA NOSTRA. IT WAS PRETTY GOOD ILL BILL DID SOME OF HIS SHIT THEY DID THE CIA IS TRYING TO KILL ME WHICH IS DOPE. THEY RAN THROUGH SOME OLD STUFF SOME NEW STUFF AND ENDED IT WITH JUMP AROUND WHICH GOT THE CROWD OUT OF THERE SEATS AND GOING CRAZY AND LA COKA NOSTRA BANGER, THATS COKE. WENT DOWN TO CATCH A LITTLE BIT OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE WASN'T REALLY IMPRESSED FROM WHAT I SAW( I LIKE THEM ON RECORD) MAYBE THEY JUST DONT PERFORM WELL? BUT I LEFT PRETTY QUICK WHEN I GOT A TEXT SAYING ROOTS WHERE ABOUT TO TAKE THE STAGE AND THEY WERE GREAT STARTED OF WITH SOME MORE STRAIGHT HIP HOP JOINTS AT A RAPID FIRE PACE THEN LIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR SET THEY STARTED GETTING A LITTLE MORE FUNKY WITH IT THEY THREW JUNGLE BOOGIE ON THE SET LIST AS WELL. HIT UP PAID DUES TO SEE RAEKWON RUN THRU SOME OF HIP HOPS MOST CLASSIC VERSES AND TELL US ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINX II WILL BE OUT IN SEPTEMBER (YAH RIGHT!) BACK TO THE MAINSTAGE FOR BIG BOI WHICH I FEEL WAS A GOOD IDEA TO BRING ON THIS TOUR HE KINDA GOT A PARTY ATMOSPHERE IN THE AIR AND THE CROWD WAS INTO IT. THEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT AND LET ME TELL U DAMIEN MARLEY AND NAS TOGETHER IS SOME SICK SHIT IT WENT TOGETHER SO WELL.
NAS CAME OUT FIRST DID SOME OF HIS SHIT THEN BROUGHT OUT DAMIEN THEY TRADE BACK AND FORTH OVER SOME CLASSIC HIP HOP AND REGGAE BEATS. THEN NAS DID ONE LOVE AND THEY WENT INTO BOB MARLEYS SONG WITH THE SAME NAME. THEN NAS "WENT TO ROLL A BLUNT" AND DAMIEN HAD THE STAGE TO HIMSELF. RIPPED THRU SOME OF HIS SHIT OBVIOUSLY JAMROCK AND A SNIPPET OF KAHKI SUIT. HE ALSO GOT THE CROWD CHANTING HIS FATHERS WORDS, "WE DON'T NEED NO MORE TROUBLE". OUT CAME NAS AGAIN DID A FEW MORE SONGS INCLUDING GOT YOUR SELF A GUN MADE YOU LOOK AND THEN DID A GREAT VERSION OF ONE MIC THAT WAS HIM RAPPING TO A BEAT BEING PLAYED ON A DJIMBE AND THE AUDIENCE CLAPPING. AFTER THAT DAMIEN CAME OUT TO DUE ROAD TO ZION AND THEN THEY DID ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR SONGS AND BROUGHT K'NAAN OUT. THIS SHOWS VALUE FAR EXCEEDED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF 40 BUCKS. AND I FEEL IT EVEN OUT DID LAST YEARS.

  

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Why No Reviews from any Rock the Bells Shows? [View all] , jtree11, Mon Jul-13-09 08:24 AM
 
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I'm thinking it wasn't as live as last years ...
Jul 16th 2009
1
I was in Boston/Mansfield, MA for the show...
Jul 19th 2009
2
RE: I was in Boston/Mansfield, MA for the show...
Jul 19th 2009
3
I refuse to read this.
Jul 22nd 2009
11
The lineup switches definitely threw me for a loop
Jul 19th 2009
5
      i missed Common b/c i wanted to see M.O.P
Jul 19th 2009
6
           Yeah, they need to at least announce those changes.
Jul 20th 2009
7
                I don't know how they did Rock the Bells in the past
Jul 20th 2009
8
                     This was the 3rd year in a row that I saw RTB and this year
Jul 21st 2009
9
                          On the real tho Raekwon's set was WACK AS FUCK! If he woulda
Jul 21st 2009
10
                               I caught DJ Dummy's set...and saw Common finished...
Jul 23rd 2009
13
Uppin. Ain't none of ya'll niggas go? I went to the Boston show.
Jul 23rd 2009
12
Went to the Chicago show
Jul 23rd 2009
14

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