Rock The Bells 2011 Line-up Announced

Steve Lurkel · Post by **Steve Lurkel** » Sat May 28, 2011 3:10 pm

lauryn hill performance was absolute dogshit last year. waited like 2 hours for her to start too.

we were surrounded by girls (good) but they were all really excited to see lauryn hill (bad) and kept talking about how they couldnt wait for her, and basically doing that screamy girl shit that girls do. then my friend (rosario) exclaimed "Lauryn Hill sucks!" at which point the girls turned around and gave him a look of disapproval, at which point he replied "what? she does."

csb.

also i heard she delayed the washington show 4 hours last year and snoop only ended up performing like 3 songs. understandable though, she was getting a manicure.

i don't understand why they brought her back. on the bright side, if as the flier suggests, she's last; i can catch the boats and miss the mob early and avoid her shitty set.

can you imagine all the righteous chicks that badu and hill will bring out being on the same boat? ugh. they should get j zone to perform to balance it out.

GetToStepping · Post by **GetToStepping** » Sun May 29, 2011 5:43 pm

Guaranteed 98% of folks will still be ahead of you waiting for the boat with l Boogs last. I left early last year and still practically walked back to Battery Park before finding a boat, which was infested with spiders, I might add.

Rob Banks · Post by **Rob Banks** » Mon May 30, 2011 10:21 pm

HipHoppin wrote:
Versive wrote:I think Rakim went through all of Paid in Full last year, plus a couple from later albums. KRS One was/is intergalactic. Wu did all of 36 minus a few verses maybe. Didn't catch all of snoop's set because I was beat, but he was supposed to do all of Doggy Style and was keeping at it when I left. If you have an hour set one album might not fill it up, so you gotta figure other songs'll get thown in.
Snoop did the entire album, including short films for each skit. He was easily the star of the show. The Lauryn Hill performance was horrible.

HipHoppin, you thought Snoop was easily the star of the show?? I didn't think so. I felt bad for him actually. He did a good set but it seemed like the apex of the show was Wu-Tang right before him. His set was anti-climactic to me- especially considering how many people were filing onto those boats during his set... He was undoubtedly the biggest celebrity on the bill, but I didn't think he had any business going on after Wu-Tang in their hometown. I don't know- it didn't seem like people were enthused when he went on.

Rachel Hobozal · Post by **Rachel Hobozal** » Mon May 30, 2011 11:07 pm

Requesting to have current hip hop artists perform nothing but songs off of albums they made over a decade ago is pretty damn insulting to the artists... I would think.

battlecatmeowstab212 · Mon May 30, 2011 11:33 pm

I would love to see artists perform their bad albums track for track so that they can truly be held accountable in front of a live crowd and apologize for their shortcomings.

Rachel Hobozal · Post by **Rachel Hobozal** » Tue May 31, 2011 12:46 am

battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:I would love to see artists perform their bad albums track for track so that they can truly be held accountable in front of a live crowd and apologize for their shortcomings.

O.C. thinks 'Bon Appetite' is a solid album. They wouldn't give a shit, nor would they necessarily even think there was anything to apologize for if they did in fact give a shit.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:56 am

If you are entertained by Snoop Dogg in 2011 ... something bad.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:59 am

step one · Post by **step one** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:41 am

Cleanhobo wrote:Requesting to have current hip hop artists perform nothing but songs off of albums they made over a decade ago is pretty damn insulting to the artists... I would think.

not really. I saw KRS a few months back and he cant have done more than 2 songs that were less than 10 years old. Same with the Wu a few years back when 8 Diagrams dropped - they only did one song off the album, nothing off Iron Flag and the rest was the first 3 albums + classic solo shit.

DaBonks · Post by **DaBonks** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:47 pm

I was at Rock The Bells 2010 in New York and to me the highlight was easily A Tribe Called Quest. They went at it.
Every member was hype and extremely up for it.
The Wu did their thing, but nothing more.

I only saw

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:51 am

anybody care to opine on the vip vs regular ticket option?

im wondering if its worth splurging for the vip jawn

TheBeeShine · Post by **TheBeeShine** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:58 am

samdoom wrote:anybody care to opine on the vip vs regular ticket option?

im wondering if its worth splurging for the vip jawn

from what i remember at 2007 rock the bells, the VIP included a backpack and other party favors, closer access to the stage, and air conditioned areas that you can sit in. it's all about preference my dude!

TONES · Post by **TONES** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:49 pm

added to the show KP performing Heavy Mental in it's entirety.

GetToStepping · Post by **GetToStepping** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:25 pm

I would say it's worth every penny.

KITFUNK · Post by **KITFUNK** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:42 am

step one wrote:
Cleanhobo wrote:Requesting to have current hip hop artists perform nothing but songs off of albums they made over a decade ago is pretty damn insulting to the artists... I would think.
not really. I saw KRS a few months back and he cant have done more than 2 songs that were less than 10 years old. Same with the Wu a few years back when 8 Diagrams dropped - they only did one song off the album, nothing off Iron Flag and the rest was the first 3 albums + classic solo shit.

Word.

Just saw Raekwon a while ago, promoting Shaolin vs Wu-Tang, but majority of his performance was classic shit (Rainy Dayz, Criminology, Triumph, etc). Wu members usually give a good performance. That's been my experience with them anyway.

IKH5150 · Post by **IKH5150** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:52 am

anyone know the promo code for NYC tickets?

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:54 pm

IKH5150 wrote:anyone know the promo code for NYC tickets?

ILLMATIC

IKH5150 · Post by **IKH5150** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:00 pm

samdoom wrote:
IKH5150 wrote:anyone know the promo code for NYC tickets?
ILLMATIC

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:40 pm

anybody go to the show in LA this past weekend?

Sumthin_Funky · Post by **Sumthin_Funky** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:00 pm

samdoom wrote:anybody go to the show in LA this past weekend?

More or less what I expected. Not a complete disaster of a show, but nothing spectacular. Common actually gave a really good performance. He was really into it and he freestyled a bunch of times. Nas was ill, but still kind of disappointing because he only performed one verse, two verses tops to each song. On top of that, he could almost never finish a bar and would sometimes leave like a full 5 second gap in between verses.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:24 am

^^^

any other synopsis? i was mainly interested in finding out if lauryn hill's set actually sounded like miseducation. i saw her a couple months ago with a band and they were terrible- none of the songs sounded like the originals.

did you see random axe, roc marc or slaughterhouse perform? i'm going to the nyc one and i'm kinda tryin to plan who to see.

thanks in advance

the dead poet · Post by **the dead poet** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:15 pm

I went, but was pretty fucking wasted...and only real highlight I remember is mushing some pastoids face for complaining that he couldn't wait for Mac Miller to come on. CSB

Pizon · Post by **Pizon** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:17 pm

Cleanhobo wrote:Requesting to have current hip hop artists perform nothing but songs off of albums they made over a decade ago is pretty damn insulting to the artists... I would think.