Nothing but positive thoughts! With the busy season and our typical last minute preparation for the show, Ricca and I kept a short set @ 12 minutes.  Turn out wasn’t as packed as JabbaWockeez which was expected because of the season and the snowfall that we’ve been having, but every single person that was in the building was happy to be there and were there to see performances!  We had great vibes from everyone, and we had the joy of performing alongside Dragon Fli Empire, The Groove Junkies, Ill FX, House of Danger Kat and an improv addition O’Mighty and various Calgary B-boys.  (seriously, House of Danger Kat, soooo sick, so original, so much conviction in the dancing!! I definite hope to see them in the future)

The thing that stands out the most to me in the night was the unity of the Calgary Hip Hop Scene, Suns of Boey were in the house, Benny Johnson, Ill Movements and even Drew Atlas (long time no see).  Due to the weather the "Super Tour" was running extremely late.  So we did what any honorable Calgary Hip Hopper would do! IMPROVISE!! Dizzy D invited b-boys on the stage as a little show case for the crowd and Ricca Razor Sharp did a great job of MC’ing their Showcase. My favourite quote of the night was Ricca "We need to exorcise these demons (referring to the b-boys)"

Pictures below, huge props to Sally @ NetCandi.

www.netcandi.com

Sort of a last minute thing, but next Wedneday Ricca & I will be opening for the Dance Crews of Season 2!!

I’ll edit this post with ‘After Thoughts’ but for now, check the flyer, hit me up if you need tix!

Hmmm… Only a couple of weeks ago now that I think about it, but it was long overdue.  It was a sad sad day when Mantrakid moved to B.C, mostly sad for me I guess – so after 5 months of pouting and crying, and with the Wifey off in Vegas with her friends… it was time.  hahaha. Great hospitality from the Mantra’s as expected, they brought me out for dinner, showed me the spots, we hung out played video games and caught up like old times.  I hope to do it again in the Summer when things are ‘poppin’ and when a certain someone has ‘popped’…

Comox is definitely a dope place to visit, the most critical thing that stood out in my mind was the flavour bursts of silence… I remember nights just coming back from dinner and we’d step out of the car and I’d stop… and I’d have to wait for someone to speak to make sure I haven’t gone deaf (rap music)… its something we overlook in our city lives, silence – I think we FEEL it from memory but don’t realize we forgot what it sounds like.  FOOD, I gotta be straight up I was skeptical, can I go a weekend without Pho or Sushi?!?! but I was wrong, maybe with only 150K people Comox/Courtenay actually has time and consideration to prep their food??? Sure I’m a little opinionated being a tourist and with MK bringing me to his favourite spots… but I must say FOOD was awesome, and trust me, I’m a food guy!  One major thing that struck me while I was there, the atmosphere really reminded me of the trips to Vancouver to see the family… now I’m family sick… yikes

Anyway, THE MAIN POINT OF THIS POST!!

Mantrakid had the courtesy to bring me to his radio station and let me special guest in an episode of CreamReefer… check the links below, from www.neferiu.com , catch him every Saturday, CHLY

Started off with some instrumental downtempo lovin’ then got into a little introduction with Calgary Battle Rapper The Equazn. After dropping some of his collaboration work with the Calgary Audible Intelligence work, he got into a full blown live freestyle session on-air. Then we wound it down with some newer stuff from Canadian artists like Shep & DJ Stilz, Virtue, and Iron Lion.

Click here to subscribe to the weekly podcast or, click here to download the full episode to your number machine. The air date for this show was Saturday November 22nd . Tune in next Saturday at 2pm-4pm Pacific on 101.7fm in Nanaimo or http://www.chly.ca online.

 

This show happened before we launched the new site, but here are my thoughts:

PRE-SHOW:

To get the gig I just facebook’d Sally @ NetCandi (www.netcandi.com) and asked if I could open, I got a reply asking for a Demo CD.  A few things immediately came to mind: a) Wow these guys are professional, b) aw man… what songs do I put on it? c) man I really need to get a CD done, haha.  After 4-5 days we chatted and I got the thumbs up. I never did get around to asking her what she thought about the CD *NOTE TO SELF*  Actually I’d like to know which had more pull on the Resume’ the Songs, or the good References?

Awesome, I got the gig – boom, I invited Ricca Razor Sharp www.riccarazorsharp.com to represent Audible and we’re good to go.  While making the set we realized it was the first time in ages we had to cut out any inappropriate language.  It was also the debut for few songs ‘Where you come from’, ’The Gotcha’ and ‘Wind me up’ from the very recent 36 hr EP (Oct 18th), time to practice up!

The SHOW

We were very relaxed throughout the whole day, the joy of a Saturday: having all day to prepare for night.  Sound check was great, met all the dancers and of course we felt comfortable with DJ Roofeo and DexOne on the decks (if you don’t know, you better check yourself =P).  The line-up made me a little nervous, I was worried that my friends (50 of them) wouldn’t be able to get in by the time I performed, but I was proven wrong, NetCandi.com and Mac Hall knew what they were doing, they moved the door nice and smoothly unlike other venues I’ve performed at.

Performance: overall I was really happy with out set.  I drank 2 bottles of water before we hit the stage and 1 bottle ON stage, rocking a crowd always gives me a ‘NERVOUS COTTONMOUTH’. The freestyling was pretty hard because there wasn’t really anything to shout out in the crowd, they ALL looked the same!! How many punchlines can you drop about an little asian boy in a JabbaWockee shirt standing next to an asian girl in a JabbaWockee shirt? haha… I kept looking for someone in a Canucks jersey to diss or a JabbaWockee Poster…  I don’t think they realized we were freestyling until about 16 bars in…  As for our written material the crowd was very receptive, cheering after every song and transition – they responded to our energy and we heard appreciation for our punchlines/drops and chorus’.

AFTER THE PERFORMANCE

LETS DRINK!!! Thanks to all my friends for coming to support, thanks for the drinks, thanks to everyone involved in the show who were so friendly.  Super props to NetCandi, I definitely hope to do another show with them in the future *fingers crossed*

SL

pictures below

EQ&Ricca

 

From www.Neferiu.com

Hit up The Palomino (109-7th AVE SW) on Friday November 28th for Iron Lion’s CD and Video release party!
This jam boasts a powerful line up of local and not-so local talent including Ricca Razor Sharp, mantrakid (Comox, BC) and Impirical. This party is hosted by none other than The EquAzn (local freestyle king, fresh off of opening for Jabbawokeez and Redman/Method Man) and will include the musical spinning of DJ SAGA.

Iron Lion will be releasing his new CD entitled "The Eye of Ra" and will debut the video for the first single "Whatever", come compete in the "Dance Like A Handicap Dance-off!", there will be prizes and giveaways all night long. Come one, come all… doors only $5 and the show starts at 10pm

***IF YOU CAME TO JABBAWOCKEEZ OR RED/METHOD MAN YOU GET IN FOR FREE

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