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Originally posted by kgm
Prince Paul can completely kill the energy of a show when he step on stage, so he is the worst that I have seen.
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^^Yeah, his dumb ass was on right after Eyedea fired everybody up, and he started doing skits and DJing with CDs and crap samples......I've never seen a crowd die so quickly. By the time Aceyalone was up, almost everybody was gone.No one thought Prince Paul would ever get the fuck off stage.
Best:
Brother Ali - If you haven't seen this guy. See him. One of the best live performers out there.
Murs - Another dope ass performer who just does anything and everything. I saw him twice. First time he smashed a TV.
Aesop Rock - Very dope live presence. I saw him with Mr. Lif chiming in for Aesop's background vocals.
Sage Francis - Always wanted to see this guy. But I hear nothing but good shit about his live stuff.
Slug - very dope, really knows how to get a crowd riled up.
^^^All of these guys do great crowd participation
Eyedea - Not that great on crowd participation, but he still can get the crowd moving with his songs and damn, you just need to hear Bottle Dreams live. Can't describe the emotion he emitts from the mic.
Worst:
Prince Paul - as stated earlier....STAY AWAY FROM ANY OF HIS SHOWS!!!!! If he is surrounded by a bunch of dope artists....then just just do something else while he is on stage. Go buy shit, catch some pics with the kool guys and some autographs and take it to your car. Good time to do anything else other than pay attention. Try booing him off stage. Worst performance ever.
Oddjobs - Maybe it was because they opened the Atmosphere show and you know how those openers go....you need them to pump you up. They didn't deliver.Wasn't feeling them at all. They did a freestyle session and each guy went for about 15 seconds and quite.
SA Smash - Opened for the Aesop Rock show. Wasn't really feeling them. They kept saying they were doing their last song, and then five songs after that would be their last song, and then five songs after that.......etc etc etc. One kool part was when Metro just started walking around the crowd and rapping, but they didn't do anything spetacular song wise and crowd participation was not there.
Reccomendations:
Gentle Jones - Delaware's number 1 emcee.....great stage presence, good crowd participation. Go see him.
Aceyalone - I didn't really pay attention to him. Good for the most part. No crowd participation. Everyone was just dead from that Prince Paul set. Acey even knew we were dead. Maybe 30 or less people were there by the time he got on stage.
Ugly Duckling - Nothing too spetacular, not too bad either. Just have to see them. Hit or miss.
Mr. Lif - Saw him at the Aesop show but he had like a 15 minute set by himself before Aesop Jumped in for the chorus on Success, and they both stayed on stage for the rest of the night alternating between songs. Not really enough to judge him. But from what I saw.....A-OK
Omni - Good stage performance.......kept the crowd in tune... nothing more to say really about him........