PE just wrapped up their Don't Look Back UK tour. Here are some of Chuck D's thoughts on his experience.
LONDON NATION INVASION 2008 May 27, 2008
I spent the last 4-5 weeks preparing for the DONT LOOK BACK tour of the UK and parts of Europe and it has paid off, but took my total commitment and concentration to pull it off. As of this writing we just took on Glasgow Scotland, which historically has been the most powerful show fan base across the water. This after Manchester and Brixton with places in between like Dublin which required every muscle of my body to use. These shows get you into athletic shape in 10 days. But it ain' pretty. Everything will hurt for two hours in the morning as if I played an NFL game. Anybody that says it's easy can't imagine to yell loud in rhyme while moving at 110 beats per minute. It's what it is, and I couldn't or wouldn't do it any other way. This is what was brought to the table performing Nations and a blizzard of PE cuts afterwards. We don't have Griff on this tour because of a passport discrepancy after his fire loss. Its the government finding every technicality to stop our thing with horsesht moves like that. Still we had to rock on, but I couldn't help but think that Professor Griff would've LOVED these gigs. He will see us in NY at HOT 97 Summerjam.
I spent the last 4-5 weeks preparing for the DONT LOOK BACK tour of the UK and parts of Europe and it has paid off, but took my total commitment and concentration to pull it off. As of this writing we just took on Glasgow Scotland, which historically has been the most powerful show fan base across the water. This after Manchester and Brixton with places in between like Dublin which required every muscle of my body to use. These shows get you into athletic shape in 10 days. But it ain' pretty. Everything will hurt for two hours in the morning as if I played an NFL game. Anybody that says it's easy can't imagine to yell loud in rhyme while moving at 110 beats per minute. It's what it is, and I couldn't or wouldn't do it any other way. This is what was brought to the table performing Nations and a blizzard of PE cuts afterwards. We don't have Griff on this tour because of a passport discrepancy after his fire loss. Its the government finding every technicality to stop our thing with horsesht moves like that. Still we had to rock on, but I couldn't help but think that Professor Griff would've LOVED these gigs. He will see us in NY at HOT 97 Summerjam.
The requirement was to perform the album from beginning to end, and all in between. It's our standard album and was our obligation to blast the hell out of it . The tour opens with Hank and Keith Shocklee of the BOMB SQUAD, and had KOOL KEITH, and ANTI POP CONSORTIUM opening up and doing it bad to the bone. A new group named EZRA BANG and another new band named MAXFIELD opened in a couple markets and offered great promise. The weird factor was again the crowd numbers. Did the black crowd consider the movement passe as Mary J Blige seemed to fit that aspiration based from the posters of her playing at Wembley? Well I just chalked it up to sold out crowd with little space for walk up. (source)*
Check out the new video PE Black is Back!
What u think of this new joint? Think they need a Lil Jon/Soulja Boy remix?
*
It's nice to know that PE does sold out shows in the UK, but how relevant do u think PE is to the current stateside Hip Hop movement?
**
Flava reppin' the global Hip Hop movement!
Posted by Nikki Strong
No comments:
Post a Comment