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best shows:
- Edan and Insight live. Hands down, one of the best performances i've seen.
- I saw 4 of the members from Wu perform with the El Michels Affair band at XM. They traded off doing verses of so many classic Wu tracks.
-Earlier this year when I got to open for Blu & Exile. Both real cool dudes. Blu was real chill in the back and stepped on stage; killing shit.
-Also, doing the J. Dilla Tribute in July. Got to rock in front of a very receptive crowd along with the homies Kaimbr, J. Lane, Kenn Starr, Roddy Rod, J. Sands, and etc. Hosted by Grap Luva who's shown some good support. Later, Phife got up there and tore it down. One of the most packed shows I've been to in DC.
-Seeing P.O.S. for the 2nd time earlier this year with Mike Mictlan, SIMS, and Plaine Ole Bill. Traded CDs with SIMS and chopped it up with him a little before the show. And since the night went well, got some ass later that night since I had the hook up to get in.
-When Talib toured with Rhythm Roots All Stars, David Banner, and B.O.B., I was really impressed with David Banner. Don't think I see too many rappers perform on balconies, bannisters, and bars within an hour.
-Themselves (Dose & Jel) is always interesting to watch. Dose is the only rapper I've seen pick up a skull and rap to it with crazy-asss breathe control.
-Back when The Source had its good years, they sponsored a tour with Boot Camp Clik, MOP, Mic Geronimo, Organized Konfusion, and Terror Squad. They came to my school and ripped it. One of the illest highlights was when Organized Konfusion went last and did "Bring It On" and the crowd was like

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-In DC, there used to be this spot called Nation that had all the raver parties. Every once in a while, they did hip hop shows. One night, they had De La Soul come through. For some reason, the club decided it was a good idea to pass out glow sticks to the crowd. Kids from the crowd kept throwing the glowsticks at De La on stage and they'd throw them back every once in a while for fun. But when they were doing "En Focus", Pos got hit in the head with one and he stopped in the middle of his fast part of the verse and said "next person to throw one of those sticks is getting knocked out!". Crowd cheered and still kept throwing them every once in a while.
-All the way out in Maryland (I think in Arundel Mills), Naughty By Nature and Tribe were doing a show together. The venue looked like a warehouse and it was packed. Still enough room to move around and pretty energetic. Never seen Naughty live so I was pretty amped.
worst:
-Saw Cage recently and it wasn't the show itself; just one person who was too faded. This kid was way too wasted in the spot and ruined half of the show. Funny thing is that Cage called him out for being loud and homie jumps on stage. The owners of the spot run up on him and snatch him off the stage. Yakballz threw a drink on him and I think hit Seanie on accident while he was filming the show.
-It was my 2nd or 3rd time seeing Ghostface. It was right before The Big Doe Rehab dropped and he was with Kid Capri and Tru Life. First time I ever went to the 930 club and the sound was unbearable.
-I remember seeing Truth Hurts, Mr. Cheeks, and Pete Rock. Word is people kept getting fed up with Pete Rock not showing up in DC from previous times. Barely anyone showed up for the show.
-Last year, when I was in L.A. to perform, I got jerked around on my performance time since I wasn't a local/regular there. Two good things about it was Abstract Rude was on the bill and Percee P showed up and kicked a freestyle right before I performed. The chick throwing the event I almost felt as tyring to play me when she kept throwing other people on the list that weren't on the flyer.
-A very long long long time ago, I was bored in my hometown and decided to hit up a Nelly and Ying Yang Twins show at TSU (Tennessee State University). The Ying Tang Twins DJ, DJ Scientist, was doing these ill moves when he was spinning and people in the crowed proceeded to look

. Later on, when Nelly brought up the St. Lunatics, a fight broke out in the crowd and it was rumored someone brought a gun in. The showed went on a little longer then they cut it short. Traffic was shitty getting through.
-My 2nd time seeing De La Soul at this spot 1223; they had 9th Wonder spinning there earlier on the 1's and 2's. Fight broke out in the crowd when this chick and her man were fighting with this big dude. They knocked homie down and ol' girl proceeded to kick the dude in the head with her high heels. Security dragged them out. Threw the show off a little more for me. It got better once they brought Dres from Black Sheep as a surprise.
There's more but I can't think of them just yet....