I might be there tonight….dunno yet

Jay Smooth caught this footage of the cast of the Jay-Z and Will & Jada Smith backed Broadway musical Fela! at the annual Roots Holiday Jam @ B.B. King’s last night.

Says Jay:

Some footage from the Roots Holiday Jam at BB King’s last night, featuring the cast of the “Fela” broadway musical plus their band from the show, the (famous in their own right) Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.

The rest of the show was great too, Mos Def, Brother Ali, Gary Bartz(!), the Hypnotic Brass Band, and of course the legendary Roots crew.. shoutout to Meka from 2dopeboyz.com for the invite.

So last Thursday, my already insane event got even more insane when I wound up winning tickets to see Rakim @ BB Kings. Big shout out to Audible Doctor of the Brown Bag All Stars/Fat Beats crew for hooking me up! Got to BB Kings around 10:30pm after making my other rounds for the evening…unfortunately, I missed Rhymefest, who was the opening act =/ I was happy to run into my brothers from another mother, Mike & Patrick, as well as my photog homie Natty Night (stillonvinyl.blogspot.com). Many thanks to R.H. Bless for being my concert buddy for the evening! Shouts to Zulu Jeff (who was wearing a SUIT!), Kool Herc, Photo Rob, Sav Killz and K. Salaam who were all in attendance…

Rakim had on his comedic/player hats on that night, catering to both the fellas and the ladies – a true entertainer! He even cut up the turntables in a brief exhibition of his budding DJ skills – a rare treat! Go cop that new album, “Seventh Seal”!

Just wanted to share a few photos with you from the evening…Enjoy.

Kool Herc and R.H. Bless

Zulu Jeff looking oh so dapper in a suit!

My little bros Mike & Pat were a pleasant surprise

Kool Herc on stage while Technician the DJ spun tracks for the crowd

Rakim!

Yeah…THAT guy? He’s a legend…

Rakim showing love to Kool Herc after his set

Rakim showing love to the crowd… he stayed to sign autographs afterwards as well!

Depending on who is writing the history book, 1995 was either a great or frustrating time for Goodie Mob. That year the Atlanta foursome released its debut masterpiece, “Soul Food” (LaFace), one of its city’s defining hip-hop documents. The rest of hip-hop, though, was preoccupied with sounds from the coasts. While New York and Los Angeles were slugging it out, Atlanta was building its infrastructure, one that would eventually take over the genre.

So in one way, at least, it was 1995 again at B. B. King Blues Club & Grill on Friday night, when Goodie Mob arrived, following several years of fracture, as part of its reunion tour. Around 1:45 a.m., the 1980s New York hip-hop standout and nostalgia exploiter Slick Rick left the stage after his opening set; with him went about half the crowd.

And just as in 1995, all of those people missed out. Dressed in grays and silvers, with a female D.J. in a reflective tinsel wig and matching unitard, the Goodie Mob — Cee-Lo, Big Gipp, T-Mo and Khujo — were exuberant and comfortable, happily taking their rightful place as oft-overlooked pioneers.

In a set that lasted just over a half-hour, there was an electric, angry “Dirty South,” one of this group’s, and its city’s, crucial anthems. Played back to back, “Soul Food” and “Black Ice (Sky High)” were seductive and misleadingly humble. Cee-Lo’s rubbery wheeze was in fine form on “Goodie Bag” and “In da Wind.” Big Gipp, who rapped so slickly he was almost mumbling, performed his kaleidoscopic verse from the Nelly hit “Grillz”; with his Sgt. Pepper get-up, he was a reminder that Andre 3000 from Outkast isn’t Atlanta’s only style eccentric, or even the first.

Even Goodie Mob’s most banal single, “Get Rich to This,” was grounded by Khujo’s blunt aggression, and on the jagged “Cell Therapy,” T-Mo was virtually manic, in keeping with the song’s flared eyebrow.

Such a compressed set, in time and sound, couldn’t really do the group justice, though. “Soul Food” was a paranoid, creepy, flamboyant and somehow comforting album, one of the first to understand Southern rap as not dependent on what was happening in the rest of the country. (Another Southern innovator, the gothic Houston gangster Scarface, had been scheduled to perform, but didn’t.)

After “Soul Food,” Goodie Mob released another excellent album, “Still Standing,” and a stone-cold clunker, “World Party,” before things began to crumble. Cee-Lo went solo and eventually found success as part of the oddball future-soul outfit Gnarls Barkley. (At B. B. King, Cee-Lo, inevitably, sang Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” — in the dark, for emphasis — but he needn’t have: the crowd of loyalists was there for the pre-Gnarls Cee-Lo.) Goodie Mob’s split was marked by injury — Khujo lost the lower half of his right leg in a 2002 car accident — and animosity: the first post-Cee-Lo album was called “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show.”

The foursome is getting along now, but while Goodie Mob was quibbling, Atlanta gave itself over to gangsters, corner boys and dancers. If there was a battle for that city’s soul, Goodie Mob didn’t quite win, leaving it as a group that is respected if not always clamored for. But given that, this show was a resounding success. Not a homecoming, or even a hero’s return, but a reminder of just how lively the margins can be when people have their backs turned.

Via: NYTimes.com.

Rakim @ B.B. King Blues Club in New York on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:00 p.m.

Rakim on The Seventh Season Tour - 2009

Rakim
Rhymefest
Special Guest(s)

Tickets – Advance: $30 / Day of Show: $35
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General Admission / All Ages

Doors To Open @ 7 p.m.
Show To Start @ 9 p.m.

B.B. King Blues Club
237 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
1.212.997.4144

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DMX @ B.B. King Blues Club in New York on Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Tickets – General Admission: $30 / Reserved Seating: $30 /VIP Booths*: $50 per person
*VIP Booth Reservations Available for Parties of 4 & 6 People

Doors To Open @ 6 p.m.
Show To Start @ 8 p.m.

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B.B. King Blues Club
237 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
1.212.997.4144

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Ghostface Killah Live with Special Guests @ BB King Blues Club in New York on November 11, 2009

Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tag Clan
With Special Guests
Blu.
Sosh B
Skyzoo

Doors To Open @ 7 p.m.
Show To Start @ 9 p.m.

Tickets – Advance & Day of Show: $26.00
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General Admission (Standing Room Only)

B.B. King Blues Club
237 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
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DJ DELZ TV: RAEKWON LIVE AT BB KINGS WITH LOST VOICE

RIP ROC RAIDA!!!!!! All Proceeds From tonights show go to Roc’s wife and kids….. Show support for the Grandmaster……

Sometimes, I Really Love NY!!!!!!!!!! This is one of those times

Stay in the trap dunn…. NY Dont want ya….. especially a crowd thats waiting to see Raekwon the Chef……

L.B. Da Writer

OJ The Juiceman gets BOOOOOED at about the 2:05 mark…AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Mad I JUST missed this as I left the Better Recognize Showcase @ BB Kings last night, I think more crowds need to learn by example and stop accepting all this BS music we gettin fed and be real with what they’re feelin and not…too much wack shit gettin a pass just cause, and we the audience gotta suffer thru it, I can name another act that deserved to get the same treatment last night as well…

The Table Turns crew is back for a special reason.  Back to honor our dude Roc Raida.

Peep the line up.

See you there.  Feel free to spread the good word and repost the flyer.

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Cam’Ron Takes A Shot At Juelz Santana Live On Stage At BB Kings? “Me Myself. No Santana” (Cam Disses Juelz)

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So Tuesday we hit up BB Kings to see Cam… We must say, he still got it!
Good looks Teflon!

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Bright lights!