One of the cool things I did get to do during my hectic winter was go to a Mos Def concert. I had never been to a hip hop concert before and was curious as to how it would go. The show was at the Nokia Theater which is like a 10 minute walk from where we live which was quite dope.
My initial impression was disappointment because the show started 45 minutes late and the opening act was quite lame. Jay Electronica was dude’s name and he tried a little too hard to get his message across. What the message was I have no idea because the crowd basically booed him off the stage.
This was my main curiosity about a hip hop concert – it’s basically one dude, maybe two, carrying a show with no instruments, just a couple of DJ’s with bobbing heads and wrist flicks. You are pretty much on an island, and Jay Electronica was voted off the island by the crowd.
It was another frustrating 45 minutes before Mos Def appeared but when he did, he killed it. He truly enjoys what he does and his music is about positive social commentary which puts him in an upper echelon in my book – and you just know a skinny, dorky white dude’s opinion means a lot in the hip hop world.
