Block Parties and Stuff

well on Monday I got to see Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, and it was pretty *expletive deleted* cool. Every single performer was on point for what you got to see of them (more on that later) Chapelle was funny as always not that I ever doubted he would be. I mean you had the Roots, Mos Def, Kweli, Common, Kanye, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Dead Prez , an impressive marching band, and of course the on stage reunion of the Fugees. To top that off I saw it with my special friend who I talked a bit about in my last entry so that just made the night better anyway. As far as the movie goes I will be getting it when it comes out on dvd but I am dissapointed in one thing, and that is that they just didn’t show enough of the performances. I understand they had to cram a lot into a certain amount of time but hey I would’ve been willing to sit their longer. Hopefully the dvd will either be extended or have some of the performances as special features. The best performances of the movie I think had to be when mighty Mos Def, and Talib Kweli did their Blackstar classic Definition with a live band.....one word HOTNESS. Jill Scott brought the house down too but when doesn’t she, Kanye and the marching band doing Jesus Walks was nice as ever too, and of course the whole Fugees performance of Nappy Heads (been a long long time since I heard that one) and Ms. Hill Killing us all softly with her song she even missed a line in the song but she made up for it very quickly. It was a beautiful thing truly it was. Hopefully also with the success of the block party people will start realizing that intelligent hip hop still exist and we will see a shift back to it in the mainstream. So that was fun but afterwards I began to wonder if I was going to host a block party who would I have perform at it (this is of course assuming I could pull this off...anybody ever see wayne’s world 2 it could happen). Well I thought about it and yes I would have some of the acts from this one return basically Mos and Kweli, The Roots, Jill and Common, but I would make it a more bi coastal thing and add these groups. Zion-I (like you didn’t know), the whole Living Legends Crew, Little Brother, Lone Catalyst, Goapele, Blackalicious and since the fugees reunited at chappelles I would hit em up with a double....the return of Digable Planets, and the return of A Tribe Called Quest I know it sounds like a lot but trust me soon as that stand up bass from cool like dat hits, and then say like Award Tour, or Buggin Out after the Digable Planets set people would lose it. Besides it would be free like Chapelle’s so I doubt anybody would complain. I think some special guest appearances would have to happen too but if I told you who I had in mind then I’d have to kill you....actually I just haven’t taken the time to think up who it would be yet. But hey no doubt it would be a good time.

So until I blog again......


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