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Post by CHANCE RANDOM »

Despite what was possibly the most offensive vomit stench I've ever encountered lingering in the air, I had a blast at the Seattle show.

Despot killed it; the system sounded like it was built for the Ratatat beats and he projects really well. Between-song banter is pretty good too.

Exquire's set was rowdy as fuck but his hypeman (Goldie Glo) was terrible and his mic was leveled way above Exquire's. Goldie basically hyped the beginning of the lines and stayed silent when Exquire would cut out. Hilarious. I made some comment about "worst hypeman ever" to one of my boys and some guy leaned over and said "I dunno man, you ever seen Public Enemy?" :lol:

Killer Mike's shit was insane. He did some acapellas here and there for emphasis which usually isn't my cup of tea but it worked well. People lost their shit when he played "Neva Scared", "Kryptonite" and "The Whole World" but I could tell the crowd was split between folks that know Mike since the A.D.I.D.A.S. days and people who now know him because he did a record with El-P.

El-P was ridiculous. Did C4C all the way through which I really appreciated. I almost feel like any of his older stuff would have felt out of place for some reason. Encore was "Automatic", "Deep Space 9MM" and some verses over "Children's Story" and "Can I Kick It". Pretty dope moment.

Overall amazing show except for Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.

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QWALMS wrote: Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.:
I keep hearing about people doing this. what exactly does this mean, what is going on there. it doesnt make any sense to me could somebody explain please.

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Because I'm me- I was there when doors openedm The vomit smell was there to start the night. So nasty n

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zombie wrote:
QWALMS wrote: Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.:
I keep hearing about people doing this. what exactly does this mean, what is going on there. it doesnt make any sense to me could somebody explain please.
it means that they are rapping over their full songs like you would hear them on the CD, not just the instrumentals.

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Here's an interview I did with El-P for Citypages that went up today where we discussed his live show, his history in Minneapolis, the Weatherman album and a few other things - http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2 ... erview.php
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Post by zombie »

DLG wrote:
zombie wrote:
QWALMS wrote: Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.:
I keep hearing about people doing this. what exactly does this mean, what is going on there. it doesnt make any sense to me could somebody explain please.
it means that they are rapping over their full songs like you would hear them on the CD, not just the instrumentals.
why the fuck would anyone do that

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Post by The Road »

Slaughterhouse - Hammer Dance (El-P Remix)
http://new.official.fm/tracks/Dxt5

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zombie wrote:
DLG wrote:
zombie wrote:
QWALMS wrote: Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.:
I keep hearing about people doing this. what exactly does this mean, what is going on there. it doesnt make any sense to me could somebody explain please.
it means that they are rapping over their full songs like you would hear them on the CD, not just the instrumentals.
why the fuck would anyone do that
sometimes rappers or producers don't hold onto or give out all their instrumentals to everyone involved.

sometime people use instrumentals with half the vocals in on some hypeman shit.

when i saw ASAP Rocky perform, half of his tracks had instrumentals, and the other didn't.

usually "album cuts" won't have instrumentals (they used to call the instrumentals "TV Tracks", by the way) and mainly radio singles will have instrumentals.

Killer Mike has an instrumental version of his album included in the vinyl purchase of his wax, so why Trackstar the DJ is using a vocal cut of "Reagan", and it's horrible because Mike doesn't stay on top of his vocals at all.

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Post by DLG »

El-P remixed a slaughterhouse track

http://new.official.fm/tracks/Dxt5

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Post by sleazy_j »

will El-P remix a Slaughterhouse track in the near future?

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missed it, sorry bro!!

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Post by Lid »

sleazy_j wrote:
zombie wrote:
DLG wrote:
zombie wrote:
QWALMS wrote: Exquire and Mike rocking over their vocal tracks. That shit has got to stop.:
I keep hearing about people doing this. what exactly does this mean, what is going on there. it doesnt make any sense to me could somebody explain please.
it means that they are rapping over their full songs like you would hear them on the CD, not just the instrumentals.
why the fuck would anyone do that
sometimes rappers or producers don't hold onto or give out all their instrumentals to everyone involved.

sometime people use instrumentals with half the vocals in on some hypeman shit.

when i saw ASAP Rocky perform, half of his tracks had instrumentals, and the other didn't.

usually "album cuts" won't have instrumentals (they used to call the instrumentals "TV Tracks", by the way) and mainly radio singles will have instrumentals.

Killer Mike has an instrumental version of his album included in the vinyl purchase of his wax, so why Trackstar the DJ is using a vocal cut of "Reagan", and it's horrible because Mike doesn't stay on top of his vocals at all.
i was annoyed by this also, but mike's set was so raw, i kinda said fuckit. but i usually hate when anyone raps over their vocals. shit is real juvenile

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Yeah I hate that shit usually, but Mike has enough charisma to pull it off. I thought he killed in Chicago.

Slaughter House remix bangs. Those guys suck though.

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Brougham33 wrote:Yeah I hate that shit usually, but Mike has enough charisma to pull it off. I thought he killed in Chicago.

Slaughter House remix bangs. Those guys suck though.
he was okay...definitely has charisma and stage presence like a motherfucker, but it was really painful over some of the slower tracks like reagan where you could hear two distinct voices. he's really gotta knock that shit off and just get a decent hype man that can finish lines for him.
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From watching him on stage and briefly running into him off-stage, Mike's hypeman might need to be on like 13% less drugs.

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Dids wrote:From watching him on stage and briefly running into him off-stage, Mike's hypeman might need to be on like 13% less drugs.
He has a hypeman? He has DJ Trackstar, who seemed to be doing a little double duty when I saw them.

Exquire's hypeman, on the other hand, was in and out of the crowd and all over the place the whole show.

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And when I saw Killer Mike I didn't really perceive any of the backing track issues, at least it didn't detract from the performance in any way. Like I alluded to above, he didn't have a hypeman, but his DJ seemed to be filling in a little there, and he wasn't in obvious need of one.

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Slaughter House Remix instrumental would be an awesome idea.

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Brougham33 wrote:Slaughter House remix bangs. Those guys suck though.

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myself wrote:
Dids wrote:From watching him on stage and briefly running into him off-stage, Mike's hypeman might need to be on like 13% less drugs.
He has a hypeman? He has DJ Trackstar, who seemed to be doing a little double duty when I saw them.

Exquire's hypeman, on the other hand, was in and out of the crowd and all over the place the whole show.
Yeah- I was thinking of Exquire- my bad. Killer Mike actually made a point of not having one (and then later maybe kinda needed one in at least one spot).

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Dids wrote:
myself wrote:
Dids wrote:From watching him on stage and briefly running into him off-stage, Mike's hypeman might need to be on like 13% less drugs.
He has a hypeman? He has DJ Trackstar, who seemed to be doing a little double duty when I saw them.

Exquire's hypeman, on the other hand, was in and out of the crowd and all over the place the whole show.
Yeah- I was thinking of Exquire- my bad. Killer Mike actually made a point of not having one (and then later maybe kinda needed one in at least one spot).
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will cop a ticket tonight. anyone remember what the set list was like? asides from c4c, mike's current joint, and huzzah... what else?

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Despot did stuff from his album with Ratatatatatat and closed with Crap Arists.

Huzzah was the only song I recognized with X, but it's the only song I know from him (total tease too- because El came out to hug him as it started so I figured with Despot there they might do bits from the remix).

Mike did Never Scared, Whole World and something else older that I can't remember.

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Providence was fun. the angriest little city in america was not disappointed. Kind of embarrassed by the gang of jerkoffs el had to endure before he got backstage
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Kony Montana wrote:Providence was fun. the angriest little city in america was not disappointed. Kind of embarrassed by the gang of jerkoffs el had to endure before he got backstage
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despot has his best Mitch Hedberg impression down pretty well

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DC show sold out. :owens: Procrastination's a bitch.

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can't go either. hard times and work came up.
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axel foley wrote:DC show sold out. :owens: Procrastination's a bitch.
Sucks for you, but good for them. It was kind of depressing to me to see them in a 400 capacity venue with plenty of room.

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Dids wrote:Despot did stuff from his album with Ratatatatatat and closed with Crap Arists.

Huzzah was the only song I recognized with X, but it's the only song I know from him (total tease too- because El came out to hug him as it started so I figured with Despot there they might do bits from the remix).

Mike did Never Scared, Whole World and something else older that I can't remember.
I had a 3 hour drive to the show I saw and got lost, so I missed Despot and most of ExQuire. I feel like he just did Huzzah for 15-20 minutes that I saw. Despot was on stage with him doing something and was out for Tougher Colder Killer, of course, but I only heard him, never saw him until he came walking through the crowd. Mike did "Kryptonite" and "God in the Building" in addition to what you mentioned. All the 30 year old white guys went crazy when he asked who smoked weed and then played Kryptonite. There were also a few Exquire impersonators..or something in my crowd.

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myself wrote:
Dids wrote: Mike did "Kryptonite" and "God in the Building" in addition to what you mentioned.
he also did "Ready Set Go" at my show; I'd imagine he continued doing that one.
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