I was in the 7th Grade and my mom let me go to a show at the Scope in Norfolk VA. I forgot the name of the show but the lineup was:

Heavy D
LL Cool J
Salt n Pepa
KRS One
Eric B & Rakim
Doug E Fresh


I forget who else was at that particualre show. After seeing so many shows, I don't want to run artist together yaknow.




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it was 2003 and i was a fresh faced 16 year old

Groove B. Chill, lord Finnese, Public Enemy, KRS-One.


here's parts of it on youtube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2V2V-cHWQw

Stetsasonic
Public Enemy
Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew
Eric B & Rakim
Whodini
LL Cool J (introduced by Chuck D and Flav)

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That show was about a month before the Killing Me Softly video came out and the people at the show looked exactly like the people in that video. I had never seen real Bohos before, so I thought they had filmed the video at that show, but then I later came to realize that bohos weren't just in Philly.

still have the ticketstub too (jay-z is listed at the bottom/last..as "JZ")

Friends help set it up. They said the Fugees were a pain in the ass to deal with.

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Me and my sister were 3 of about 10 people in the arena to see GRITS, and we were all on our phones to pass the time. Shitty Nokia phones.

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I wanna say this was at the end of 1989 because "Fight the Power" had been released but not the whole "Fear of a Black Planet" album.

My old man took me, my brother and a couple of our friends. The show was general admission so we packed in on the floor. My old man got a Coke, some hot dogs & popcorn and got a seat way up in the top row. I remember him saying that the show was cool, "except for that little nasty one with the filthy mouth."

I laugh about that to this day.

That is a nice show.

Taking shots in the dark/that's a bad call
Going straight for your head/ gotta saw it off

i can't remember who opened. it was a college show.

fuck you.

8th grade... '92/93

High school gym (across street from middle school)

and I shit you not...

Random local dance troupe opened

followed by

INTRO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtl0Q8ImtU)

headlined by

Wu Tang...

lol

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I was 16 or so there were only two acts.

I had been deeply invested in this music thing, but my mama would NEVER let me go to a concert, until this glorious day. My uncle, at the time was the PR guy for the power company and he had gotten free tickets in the box section at the amphitheater and he called me and cousin and asked us did we know who Lauryn Hill was...uuuuh yeah we did!

So the opening act was Outkast, she was on her Miseducation tour.

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Cee-Lo
Truth Hurts
J5
Lauryn Hill
The Roots
Outkast

I'd been to a festival or 2 with some rap acts but that was my first full on rap concert.

Craziest thing was CeeLo was the first to go on. Before Truth Hurts of all people even.

i still blame hip-hop.

I've been trying to remember that concert for the longest. Knew Outkast and Lauryn but forgot the others. Can't believe I forgot the Roots. That concert was outdoors- the experience didn't quite hit the same.

*if you were at the Chicago show.

I don't mean that as snark. I just remember it being like mid-afternoon and an almost completely empty amphitheater when he went on.

At one point he started yelling shit like "none of yall know who the fuck I am!" at the 100 or so people actually there in a venue that fit like 30k.

i still blame hip-hop.

The venue was out somewhere I'd never been and the standing and waiting on the lawn did me in I think.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Crazy white people fighting after a roots concert. Awesome.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

...wow.

Streets won't let me chill.

cool j
dougie fresh
whodini
some singing group that I can't remember. they had a hit, but this was a rap show, so people tossed tomatoes at them.

can't remember the rest, but it was a dope show. I was a preteen. I remember being too short to see. so the dude that took me put me on his shoulders.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

And yes I wore hammer pants to the show
Purple ones with a rayon flower print shirt lol
I was about 10 or 11... Salisbury Civic Center

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my step dad took me and my step brother. nose bleed seats. dallas tx, reunion arena.

the stage had little foam hammers all around the front.

for some reason i remember some singing group called special generation, and the lead singer had a triangle gumby haircut.



my 1st rap show was Roots, Fugees, and Goodie Mob. Lauryn touched my hand.

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1990 @The Capitol Theatre Portchester NY.... i still have the flyer somewhere, remeber they billed them as "Third Base"

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I was in 7th grade. Went with my now wife and a bunch of our middle school friends. So weird.

Puff Daddy
Mase
Lil Kim
Lil Cease
Busta Rhymes
Foxy Brown
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Jay-Z
Usher
The Lox
Kid Capri

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but

De La in 91.

NO! LIST
Tom Petty
M J
Zeppelin
Springsteen
Neil Young
Eagles
Ray Charles
Madonna
Chuck Berry
South Park TV Songs
Justin Timberlake
"Food Glorious Food"
"Twilight Zone" theme
"A Boy Named Sue"
"Night Moves"
"The Situation"
"Superbowl Shuffle"

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.there were a bunch of concerts I wanted to go to, but my fam wasn't letting a 6 yr old go to a Grandmaster Flash concert LOL


...had tickets to see Hammer, but I happily told a friend of the family's son, and dude slipped outta sight and stole the tickets...

...The night I saw Biggie was great though, and by the end of the night, the BIG wasn't even the highlight LOL

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There were probably some other local acts sprinkled in that went after Kid Rock but before Dangerous Dame that I'm forgetting about.

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The Fresh Fest in Jacksonvile summer of 1986

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either way, I can't remember the opener.

Devin the Dude happened that same season, and the openers were a Coughpee Brothaz medley of group and solo songs.

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although i feel like De La might've been on a different day.
anyway it was the radio 1 stage at notting hill carnival in 2000, the last time there was a proper 'stage.'

Organized Konfusion had just released the extinction agenda and the stress 12 inch was getting mad play on the college radio mixshow I tuned into
Time's Up had already been out and I knew it word for word
Beatnuts had yet to release Street Level but their "fuck, drink beer, and smoke some shit" EP was my high school motto
and Common Sense was promoting Resurrection

Shit was so incredible, I was a high school kid and geeked out like a fiend for crack rock

TheMy first all rap show was The Fresh Fest concert tour, featuring Run-D.M.C., Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Fat Boys, and Newcleus

Eve before her first album dropped... She almost got booed off the stage, Big Pun, Whodini... Same show I almost got trampled when Chico Debarge came out.
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Mid 80's at The Omni in downtown Atlanta, Ga
Run Dmc
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious 5
The Timex Social Club


Bumpin in the STEREO:
Gladys Knight&The Pips
KING-We Are King
Babyface-Return Of The Tender Lover
Brandee Younger-Wax And Wane

There was someone else on that bill... I can't remember...was it Damian Dame?

We gotta talk about this show

Bumpin in the STEREO:
Gladys Knight&The Pips
KING-We Are King
Babyface-Return Of The Tender Lover
Brandee Younger-Wax And Wane

>There was someone else on that bill... I can't remember...was
>it Damian Dame?
I think it was a local female rap group. I remember Run DMC and GF&F5 got slightly booed because they didn't have a band. They still rocked it. Timex Social Club was DOPE to me

Bumpin in the STEREO:
Gladys Knight&The Pips
KING-We Are King
Babyface-Return Of The Tender Lover
Brandee Younger-Wax And Wane

The Roots
Erykah Badu
Brand New Heavies
Cypress Hill
George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars

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To wit:

Busta
Fugees
Tribe Called Quest
Cypress Hill

Ziggy Marley maybe?

Pretty epic. Missed part of Tribe's set because my girlfriend's mom, who was driving was taking her sweet effing time lol. I was 15.

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This was when they were doing the whole rock sound though so idk if that counts.
If it doesn't count, then I think it was The Pack (Based God & those dudes).

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Capital Center

LL Cool J

Eric B & Rakim

Public Enemy

Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Stetsasonic

Whodini


I think I"m forgetting someone

But yeah I was 15 and about to start my first year of high school and I was madly head-over-heels-in-love with LL Cool J.

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At west Chester university. I remember I was hype when Jeru and lil dap came out for their verses. This was daily operation time.

first all-rap was beastie boys/the roots at philly civic center in 1995

Run DMC
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Public Enemy
Eric B. & Rakim
EPMD
JJ Fad
Host: Chris Thomas aka The Mayor from Rap City

G-unit
Fat joe and the terror squad
T.i.
Lil Scrappy


and i think crime mob trillville was there...

i dont know how famu pulled that off because
every homecoming concert after that was trash
but in 05 they got lil wayne so that wasnt bad

we walked to the civic center
it was hot as hell the line was super long
we werent drinking then so we just hype off excitement lol

I was so hype about it Joe was coming off a crazy summer
with the lean back song, Lloyd Banks and Young Buck
were coming off crazy summers too
I was just becoming familiar with TI
but he was always big in the south
Rubber Band man Lets get away were bonafide hits
he performed urban Legend was about to come out
so he did bring em out you dont know me and few other songs

it was crazy keep in mind im 18 fresh off the porch so i thought
it was the greatest show ever lol

but yooooo

i remember right before Fat joe took the stage
there was an intermission

some Cousin Jeff hotepian brother got on stage and was like

"i know yall are having fun but we have to talk about the
serious issues affecting our community...the drugs and
crime and calling our women derogatory names....

the crowd was like booooooooooooo

i was like damn, ppl wanted to turn up they didnt want
to have teen summit lol

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Tribe
Busta
Fugees
Cypress Hill
Ziggy Marley

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and everybody was good but LL Cool J was the truth

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

this was at the height of the pee wee dance, i'm thinking about 1985 or 86.

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North East Groovers headlined. Also Whodini played that show too.
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MC Lyte in La Maddalena, Italy! I think it was early 1997.

I was in the Navy and she came around on a USO tour. We also got Halle Berry, some NFL Cheerleaders and The Allman Brothers Band around the same time.

Next was the WPGC or WKYS Back to School Jam at MCI Center. I can't say for certain, but I think it was 1999.
Jay-Z
DMX
Outkast
Camron
Monica
...can't remember who else, but there was a hefty line up!

Next in line was Lauryn Hill Miseducation Tour 1999 at the Nissan Pavilion.
Everlast
The Roots
Lauryn Hill

Wasn't necessarily a rap concert thanks to RFTW, but UTFO was the opening act, some other group I can't remember, RFTW, then Whodini closed it out.


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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

i remember early going to one where dj quik was involved and he had el debarge, amg and suga free with him.

maybe like the first memorable one i went to was a weird bill that had macy gray, BEP (pre-fergie obviously), everlast, the roots and eminem. three outta five sets were great, two were at least decent.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

The Roots
Jurassic 5
Cee - lo
Outkast
Lauryn Hill

Those are the ones i remember. My boy fell asleep sitting indian style drunk on the lawn and shot up like what the hell is going on when Bombs Over Baghdad came on

CunninLynguists
Pack FM
Substantial

Small show at Oberlin College, outside of Cleveland. Drove there from my hometown by myself. Turned 19 at midnight - right when CunninLynguists came on. They were my fav group back then, and it was awesome. First time being around big hip-hop fans, though half the crowd were just college kids who stumbled upon the show.

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They did their local radio banger "Missin' Kids" which was about missing children....

Oh, and a new group out of new orleans was there also Gregory D and Mannie Fresh... The Mannie Fresh guy was a pretty good DJ. I wonder what happned to him ..lol...

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House of Blues Sunset Boulevard, 03 or 04. It was great. Clint Eastwood was still a pretty popular song at the time, and when Hiero came out, Del didn't come out with them. After 2 songs or so, Del flew in like a superhero off of the skyscraper with Clint Eastwood.

If I remember right, the first opening act of the whole show was Encore, the guy who did "Waterworld" on Handsome Boy Modeling School.
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