Perhaps hip-hop isn't dead...after witnessing Nas at the house of Blues perform with Talib Kweli headlining, I'd say that it was resurrectin'! Okay so the tickets said the doors would open at 6:30 pm. My fiance was kind of leery of this because he had arrived an hour earlier than the time listed on the ticket the preious year only to wait an additional 3 hours standing to be told that Nas would not be coming(Nas mentioned this during the concern and seemed to intimate that the concert administration was responsible for this...hmmm.) So we decided to arrive at 7:30 pm when the show was supposed to start.
Okay I got kids...as in kidzzz. Two babies under the age of 3. Their lovely presence of course necessitated a drop off visit to grandma's house(my fiance's mom) who would watch them for the evening. Now lest you think that rocking out at concerts is the norm for me and mine, let me underscore our homebody status by saying this: we never get out but for the health of our relationship and our parental sanity...we try. So a bit of background on my sweetie and I...yes we had our children out of wedlock...no, we don't live together because we're trying to reroute things and do it the right way this time and yes we plan on marrying....which we actually did on 8/16/08 BUT I'll save that for another post when I have the pics back...Anyways...we were talking about Nas.
We ran helter skelter around from one end of our county to the next to drop the kids off at Grandma's house before racing back to the concert venue and feverishly searching for parking. We were a bit later than 7:30 BUT the show didn't start until 9pm...and I believe that House of Blues does this intentionally in order to coerce the concertgoers in purchasing overpriced drinks. Oh...and yes I'm a Christian and Yes I do drink...moderately on social occasions...Jesus turned water to wine...no the wine was not different from today there were no qualifiers in that scripture....as the apostle Paul said: all things are permissible but not all things are expedient. Becoming a raving drunk just isn't expedient. Anyway....House of Blues drinks are overpriced...but you haven't heard that from me.
So we stood in a hot, crowded, room for around 2 hours waiting for Talib Kweli to hit the stage. He finally came on around 9:30. He was good. Sang a couple of songs from back in the day when he was with Black Starrs. Then he leaves and the waiting begins again because Nas doesn't come on until 10:30. When he did, he tore the stage up! It was a good show. He did a full catalogue of songs from his illmatic CD, touched on a few from his latest, ni$%er. He also went back in the day for the true fans. My guy was practically screaming the lyrics to every song. It made me happy to see him so happy which marked one of the final turns to marriedville for us.
All in all...great show....and now we head off to the Southern Comfort free concert this weekend to see the Black Keys and Common perform...Oh Yeah! Rock on.
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