Jpegmafia and Injury Reserve last night.
Jpegmafia opened, mostly playing stuff from Veteran but I think he did a track or two from Black Ben Carson. The crowd was a lot larger than I expected, and Jpegmafia was trippin about it the whole show too because he's still used to tiny audiences. He opened up with Real Nega and the whole place ****ing erupted. If these weren't a bunch of skinny hipsters, this **** would've been more violent than a Slayer show. I initially didn't mosh so that I could finish my beer, but he brought the pit right to me when he went into Thug Tears. When he did 1539 N. Calvert, he let the beat ride for a bit but the crowd was shouting the lyrics and that blew his mind. He's a great performer. Met him after the show, he's extremely friendly. He came up and complimented my Shabazz Palaces shirt, I asked him a bit about being in the studio with clipping. and if we was doing more **** with Freaky. Said he wanted Freaky on Veteran but Freaky's too lazy lol.
Injury Reserve had a more elaborate set. There were also a lot more chicks in the crowd for them too, which was nice for obvious reasons but also because it was nice to have a few shorter people in the audience to balance out all of the dicksweat from the Jpegmafia performance which was a bit of a sausagefest. Anyway, Injury Reserve played and they were cool. They obviously opened with Oh ****t. Crowd was hyped which made it more fun because even though they did virtually all of my favourite songs from Floss, they played some of their new **** that can drag on a bit. Stepa J. Grogs kept take breaks because he got winded but he did a great job when he was on. They did All This Money towards and threw a bunch of Harriet Tubman $20 bills into the crowd. They ended the show with Ritchie with a T in a see-through box that was reflective for most of the show and Parker Corey on top with his launchpad thingy then he breaks it open with a mic stand. They had some good crowd initiation too. Neat.
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