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Be The Riottt Festival; Clipse rock San Francisco

Posted on November 13, 2006 9:32 AM

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The Be The Riottt festival popped off this past Saturday at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco, and it featured some of the biggest hip hop perfomances so far this year year. There were some rock bands on the bill as well, but as far as hip hop went, the lineup featured performances from Busdriver, X Clan, Sa- Ra, Sage Francis, Visionaries, Saul Williams, Zion I, Living Legends, and the big name of the night, Clipse.

We showed up a little later in the day, as we weren’t reallly game for sitting or standing through 10 hours of music. When we showed up at 5:30, Oakland’s Zion I was about halfway through their set and launching into “Hit ‘Em,” which is one of the best tracks on the Heroes In The City Of Dope album they recorded with Grouch. While I was getting ready to enter the venue, I ran into Luckyiam, Asop and Sunspot from Living Legends, who I hadn’t seen in almost a year after spending 10 days traveling the west coast with them during their Classic tour. After catching up with them for a minute, I watched Zion I do a couple more songs and then headed out to check out the rest of the venue.

After Zion I finished doing their thing, Living Legends took the stage. Murs actually showed up (with some new Let’s Get Free era M-1 dreads) to contribute some energy to the performance, which didn’t happen at all during their last tour. They kicked through some of the songs from Classic, and a few of the artists kicked through some of their solo songs, including Murs doing “Please Leave,” Grouch doing “Simple Man,” and Asop testing out one of his new joints. As far as the main room went, the Bay Area favorites had the biggest crowd of all the performers that entire day.

Sage Francis came on in the main room, rapped in his socks, had a dance battle and did his usual politically-charged, “look-at-me-I’m-avant-garde” type of shit that he always does. Although he always puts a lot into his live show, it’s not really my thing so we wandered around for a while until the next performers came on. I headed to one of the side rooms, where spoken word artist Saul Williams had just started his set.

The Visionaries came on shortly thereafter and did their thing with a vengeance. I don’t really like to much of the stuff they do as a collective, but they have one of the best DJs in hip hop (Rhettmatic from the Beat Junkies) and they always put on a crazy show. I watched about half their set and then went to go take a break from the music for a while before Clipse came on and on my way out I saw Def Jux artist Aesop Rock (who relocated to SF from NY last year) roaming the hallways.

It’s not all that often that hip hop shows actually have good sound, but somehow the sound was on point in every room all night. This became especially apparent when Clipse came on, because instead of having to yell, their voices were almost exactly like they are on record. After their DJ got the whole crowd to throw their dubs up while he was playing “Nothin But A Gangsta Party,” Pusha T and Malice (who was wearing a blue long sleeve Pyrex shirt- where the fuck did he get that shit?) came out and launched into “Virginia,” and they sounded as on-point as they possibly could. After “Virginia,” Ab Liva and Sandman came out and the crowd was treated to the “Cot Damn” remix and a few other Re-Up Gang tracks from the We Got It 4 Cheap mixtapes. The rest of their set was relatively short, but they did play “Pussy,” “Grindin,” “What Happened To That Boy,” and the first singles off Hell Hath No Fury, “Mr. Me Too” and “Wamp Wamp.” Their set was a bit short, but since we probably won’t see too many West Coast performances from Clipse in our lifetimes, we’ll take what we can get. And what we got this night was the solid performance that we had been waiting all day for.

Posted by SOHH Leftist

Comments

  • Shine Law says...

  • That line up was kinda crazy, nice mixture diverse to say the least shocked it wasnt atleast one harder artist from the bay there.

  • November 13, 2006 10:42 AM
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  • 111rvk says...

  • I saw some pretty funny shit today, I went to the local record store today, and guess what I found The new Game cd The doctors Advocate, and its not a bootleg, the funniest part of the story is that I live in Iceland, if some you dont know where Iceland is, its next to Greenland,and people dont even listen to rap here.

  • November 13, 2006 12:26 PM
  • 50 Cent says...

  • The Game said
    "blow his fucking back out/cause I’m the rap Stackhouse"

    That nigga is gay, blowin back outs on dudes.

    Name drops of rappers and/or albums: 142. Of that, 41 is Dr. Dre.

    Yep, that's gay if u ask me.

    The problem with Game is he is pretty terrible when he has nothing to talk about, and it just becomes him trying not to ruin a dope beat with name-checking and infinite references to low riders, bloods, bandanas, guns, daytons, weed, khaki suits and chucks.

    Somebody give this nigga a subject quick.....haha. He's a clown

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  • November 13, 2006 12:56 PM
  • DOCTORS ADVOCATE DROPS TOMORROW says...

  • the Doctor's Advocate section?? lol!! Reason 1. Game makes good music (and you hate that he is doin in G-Unit daily) 2. G-Unit is over and you need good music to listen to, cuz Banks cd was brutal and very very weak. (not to mention brutal sales figures). 3. 50 cent is singin on every f'n G-unit track 4. You are sick of all those so called gangstas hollerin G-Unit! every minute of every song. 5. G-Unit calloborates with nobody of significance other than G-Unit lemmings. 6. Game callobarations on new cd - Kanye, Snoop, Dogg pound, Nas, Jamie Foxx, X to tha Z, Busta, Nate Dogg, Will I Am and so on. (Very nice indeed) 7. I could go on and on, but ultimately deep down inside you, G-Unit as hip hop record makers is coming to an end and you can't face the reality of the situation. Time to go run to Eminem and Dr. Dre to save face!?! Great job Game, the hip hop world thanks you. Peace

  • November 13, 2006 1:42 PM
  • mp3pirate says...

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  • November 13, 2006 2:12 PM
  • bobby drake says...

  • Ron Artes sold about 343 copies

    Does the West Coast claim him now that he's in Sac-town now? i hope not. K-Fed out sold this nigga.

    Damn, Ron Artes aint sell, that must really means hiphop is dead.

  • November 13, 2006 3:03 PM
  • Gusto says...

  • @ The Doctors Advocate

    Not hating... but Game NEEDS to collabo with all the current hot artists coz he can't hold an entire album down by himself... he don't have 50 no more so he had to replace him with some other hot artists. Thats it. I got the album and I don't like it at all, I ain't really like the last one that much either... good first listen but no replay value... he f*cks up good beats, name drops Dre like 5011 times... and generally raps about things other rappers actually did. BOOOORRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGGG!

  • November 13, 2006 7:38 PM
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  • ^^^ and this coming from a Gay-Unit fan who's frontin and acting like he really got his album and he not hating? LMFAO@THAT pleeeease.

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