Gorilla Biscuits and Negative Approach playing Newport in Columbus, Ohio on a Friday Night displayed Hardcore Punk’s continued evolution as a participatory art.
Turnstile’s “Birds”metal win started a debate about where is a Hardcore song also a metal song.
Gorilla Biscuits, and Negative Approach won’t answer this question.
Figure It Out
Both pioneering bands would answer why Turnstile’s Hardcore culture is both critically acclaimed, and loved by people who mosh.
Negative Approach is a legendary Hardcore band from Detroit formed in 1981.
Negative Approach were a bridge between The Stooges, Hardcore, and Steve Albini.
In 2026, Negative Approach took the Newport Stage filled people of all ages and backgrounds.
Everyone looked punk in various years, and clothing styles.
Negative Approach blistered into Hypocrite denouncing those imposing 80’s conservative conformity.
We were at a Punk Show.
“Hypocrite” was released by Touch N Go Records in 1983.
Touch N Go is a Chicago label which took Hardcore from Negative Approach into 90’s noise and alternative Rock N Roll bands like Big Black, and Girls Against Boys into 2000’s TV on The Radio.
Post-Rock band Slint, and Various Steve Albini bands are a logical conclusion of Negative Approach’s style of working man’s artistic Hardcore feeling.
I stood behind someone wearing a Crass patch.
Negative Approach’s banner had the Gorilla Biscuits Ape smiling over it.
A dozen songs in and Negative Approach were denouncing Genocide.
We were a punk show. Smart punks oppose colonialism’s mass murders.
Negative Approach are Rock N Roll Hardcore critical favorites.
Turnstile doesn’t sound like Negative Approach but Turnstile exists in the hardcore criterion critics find “cool.”
Gorilla Biscuits were next anchored by lead singer CIV.
Gorilla Biscuits are a Positive vegan essence of punk if you like Pervert by Descendents.
CIV was really excited that Gorilla Biscuits were playing a packed room with everyone moshing in Columbus, Ohio
Civ singing 1989’s New Direction which denounces people who are attempting to exploit hardcore energized 1550 people in the Newport Music Hall.
Turnstile’s authenticity and creating a safe space of positive youth is something Turnstile cultivated from Biscuits’ influence on Hardcore Culture.
Gorilla Biscuits’ CIV is kinda like Ian Mackaye partying.
About three songs in, Civ gave a speech while introducing my favorite Gorilla Biscuits’ song in Columbus, Ohio..
Degradation.
Civ told our cities’ audience that the security was allowing moshing and stage diving.
Doctrine thus spoke Civ
:
“..Punk Rock and Hardcore music is rooted in love, togetherness, unity and family
This goes out to you..
The rest of this year, and onward.
Turn down the hate, and turn up the love.
This song is called Degradation.” – Civ, Columbus, Ohio 3-27-2026
Degradation denounces white supremacists and nazis who were trying to infect the Hardcore scene with their alt-right violence, and toxicity.
“Degradation” is from the NYC’s band’s 1989 album Start Today.
“Degradation” is up there with Napalm Death’s cover of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” for rejecting the alt-right in any era.
1550 people in the Newport moshed and clapped while Civ led the room with Biscuit Power and other punk classics.
Civ thanked the security for allowing stage diving. Civ said punk can regulate behaviors which are positive for organisms.
We were experiencing punk culture in an ideal evening.
Biscuits kept the excitement with Things We Say,Big Mouth, a Buzzcocks song, and then CIV sang: Minor Threat.
I wondered… Turnstile’s success, Gorilla Biscuits played in front of 1500 people and Riot Fest…
Would a Minor Threat reunion be possible? Ian Mackaye isn’t the type who would exploit his band’s legacy …
With that said: conditions are pretty ideal for legendary bands to play at their own rules.
Everyone would experience Dischord Records bands with culture where punks could control ethics around performance.
CIV applauded the large amount of Minor Threat and Bad Brains shirts worn by Newport’s audience.
Did I attend Hardcore Show of the Year? Did we watch punk show of the Year?
CIV concluded Gorilla Biscuits’ anticipated Columbus concert with Cats And Dogs and START TODAY after a championing Veganism with charisma.
Predicted 2026 Show of the Year…. Columbus, Ohio..GORILLA BISCUITS……
Daniel Rachel’s This Ain’t Rock N Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika, The Third Reich released from Akashic Books intertwines Pop Music’s infatuation with Hitler, and The Swastika with the actual atrocities involved with murdering, and sexually assaulting during a genocide which killed 6, 000, 000 jewish people.
Birmingham-born Daniel Rachel is a former musician-turned-award-winning and bestselling author whose works include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters – a Guardian and NME Book of the Year-, Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music & Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge -winner of the Penderyn Music Book prize-, Don’t Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia-an Evening Standard and Metro Book of the Year-, The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn’t Split Up? –Guardian Book of the Week= and Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation (a Sunday Times, Uncut, Rough Trade US and Resident Music Book of the Year-, now widely considered the definitive history of 2 Tone.
He has served as consultant and appeared as a talking-head on several cultural documentaries, including Madness: Prince of Ska, Kings of Pop -2025-, Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story -2024- and Britpop: The Music that Changed Britain -2023-. He was guest curator of 2 Tone Lives & Legacies exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021, curated the anniversary edition of the Selecter’s debut album Too Much Pressure and written sleeve notes for Bryan Ferry, the Kinks, the Selecter, Ray Davies and Ocean Colour Scene.
Daniel’s latest book, This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich was serialized on the front cover of the Times Review. Receiving rave reviews and standing room only appearances. This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll has been named a Rough Trade, Resident Music and Louder Than War book of the year and nominated for the Penderyn Music Book prize.
During the beginning of reading This Ain’t Rock N Roll, I contemplated if there is some network or secret society who rewards anyone famous that says: ‘Hitler was an exceptional entertainer. ‘
I debated if nazi’s affiliation power works because white supremacy’s strength in conformity or if a section of all intelligence agencies rewards people who like nazis.
The Hitler-CIA connection sorta infiltrated each other which did defeat nazis in Germany. Hip Hop in High School informed us CIA- Nazi’s fled to Brazil. I didn’t think about the idea of espionage. I said: “I don’t like Nazis.”
I haven’t ever found myself impressed with Adolf’s crowd rocking.. I look at some short dude yelling which involved into top awful things in Social Studies class. I don’t speak German. I assumed Hitler was yelling “kill the jews. white power.” I wasn’t impressed.
American’s Slavery of people of African descent…. America’s colonialism conquering Native Americans.. The Holocaust in Germany… We were all mortified and disgusted by heinous atrocities by nazis, and the American colonialism.
I don’t think this is white guilt. I dislike genocide and rape because I like people and women.
I don’t have any need for a swastiki. I suppose Maybach Music swazi use did seem brash and provocative.
Daniel Rachel’s This Ain’t Rock N Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika, The Third Reich focuses on Rock Stars buying actual nazi clothes.
I wondered who was introducing the WW2 nazi vintage clothes salesperson to every rock star. I’m supposing giving rock stars the option of dressing like terrible people was probably a manager or personal assistant mistake.
Drugs seem like they were being sold by people who sold nazi clothes. Is there a section of all intelligence agencies that pairs drugs with Nazis?
Nazi soldiers took speed before invading England.
I don’t think every rock star in a uniform or wears Red And Black is nazi. I will counter-argue. We can’t forfeit the colors Red + Black or military chic. Black Panthers wore military uniforms.
I won’t mention who Daniel accuses of nazism. For awhile, during This Ain’t Rock N Roll is appalled so many people were into arguing Hitler could rock a crowd, and were impressed they could own things owned by Nazi’s
In it’s entirety, this book reads like the Jewish Defense League, and PMRC created Ego Trip Book of Nazi Lists for the Alt-right.
IF your looking for music which Daniel Rachel doesn’t find nazi… The Specials, and Serge Gainsbourg are your options which are complete void of swastiki’s, uniforms, and the colors Red + Black.
Serge Gainsbourg released Rock Around the Bunker which explicitly denounces nazis with songs called Nazi Rock.
Rock Around the Bunker sounds like the upcoming Black Keys dive-bar decadence blues album Peaches.
Black Keys Peaches album does contain Red + Black from a Willam Eggleston Coca Cola photo. Mike Carney designed the Black Keys cover. I know Mike. Mike isn’t anti-semitic and doesn’t own any swatikas. I know Carney is appalled at the hideous torture, and sexual violence committed against Jews.
Mike did give me Joy Divisions’ Unknown Pleasure which doesn’t equate to supporting the Third Reich,
Daniel Rachel’s This Ain’t Rock N Roll does declare black-metal band Waitain aren’t nazis.
I think the most important part of This Ain’t Rock N Roll is reminding everyone that the Holocaust is one of the worst atrocities humans experienced.
6 million people were killed. 6 million people were brutally tortured. Each individual felt a tremendous amount of pain while dieing.
Daniel is good a reminding us about the individuality of every holocaust victim.
I disagree with the book’s blanket accusations of nazism against the history of music.. I find many disingenuous and irresponsible. I do agree with a basic premise: People shouldn’t celebrate a genocide.
This book is effective at reminding everyone a flaw in trolling is dehumanization. Donald Trump is President again because alt-right Trolling.
There is a debate if Slayer glorifies or simply reminds everyone of the extent of Holocaust experience. I will remind: : Rick Rubin is Jewish…
Do you think Dead City Punk’s Meth Psychosis make Meth sound appealing? Slayer’s South of Heaven didn’t make me a nazi or Satan worshiper. I promise.
South of Heaven created Public Enemy listeners. Madonna’s Justify My Love sampled Public Enemy. I think Madonna knew Louis Farrakhan existed.
Never Again to anyone.
I think the majority of jews in our country are privately aware of exact details of mass killings for each holocaust victim..
Jews for Palestine exist for a reason. Young jewish people’s families are empirical evidence of the awareness off a mass of people were placed in warehouses, raped, tortured and experimented upon.
I watch Holocaust documentarys so I don’t become insensitive towards Jewish people while denouncing the current treatment of Palestinians. I can analyze fascism’s process and remain sympathetic to this those whose relationship with Isreal is probably personal.
We must understand the extent of the holocaust for several reasons:
I live in Columbus, Ohio.
ISREAL was an imperfect place of power for a people who are the target of demonization for political power. I won’t delve into the idea that America reason leaving England was seperation of Church + State.
Is it possible to separate celebrate Satan’s evil with an understanding the Holocaust wasn’t inflicted by a mystery demon?
We must make sure Jewish people don’t need to feel defensive.
With that caveet…
Democratic lawmakers like Maxine Waters aren’t allowed entrance into ICE Detention facilities where our tax dollars are involved with fascist human factory farming. People are being shipped into prison camps overseas.
I don’t like ICE as a vegan.
We haven’t seen a final solution where people are being mass incinerated. This doesn’t mean white supremacists abducting human beings into captivity without rules isn’t gonna make an incredibly dark chapter in our country worse.
Trump is using Israel as justification for employing nazis for nazi camp wordwide..
Would you listen to songs called…
“Alligator Alcatraz is a Gas.”
“Netanyahu is a Dope Rapper.”
Hitler wasn’t a dope rapper. Hitler is known for killing 6 million jews.
This Ain’t Rock N Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika and The Third Reich by Daniel Rachel succeeds in reminding NEVA AGAIN for any people…including jewish people.
I wouldn’t wear a T-shirt celebrating Kristi Noem or mocking Alex Pretti’s death in a decade or 20 years from now. Would you wear a Donald Trump shirt?
Hitler’s violent warehousing of people for human rights abuses are why people are worried about AIPAC lobbying our country in ICE Camps, and the murder of muslims overseas.
Is Hitler, Donald Trump ICE Raids, and Netanyahu’s friendship White supremacist American colonizations’ long game?
Donald Trump and Netanyahu are from Hitler’s generation. intelligence culture and community.
Why do you think this book cover looks cool and/or interesting?
I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.
Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.
It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.
Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.
I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.
Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.
Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.
Lupe Fiasco’s Bustown’s show again reminded me of Hip Hop’s potential.
Lupe’s show started with Lupe rocking Number 1 Headband off Fiasco’s album 2024 album Samurai.
Number 1 Head Band starts with Lupe jazz humming into a chorus…“a little bit of bone bone bone” which conjured Ella Fitzgerald’s influence on FreeStyleFellowshipThugzNHarmony in the MiddleofBarnintoA$ap Rocky etc in 10 seconds and arrives at a Charli XCX Brat’s reference.
Columbus Atheneum was filled with people and positive energy.
Columbus Athenaeum … packed.
I sat in the seats….arenas and smart tv have changed my preferred concert settings.
I sometimes find the front of the audience.
Other times I sit down and enjoy the show.
I find concerts cerebral participation.
The importance of Lupe’s vibrance December 20, 2024.
Kamala Harris reminded me of Hip Hop’s potential.
Then after that election…
I felt a tremendous disappointment in the amount of liars and bigots.
I felt like Holden Caulfield reading books about Cointelpro.
I like rap.
I like punk.
I like women.
Lupe played Palaces off Samurai.
I knew the lyrics.
Everyone in the room knew the lyrics.
As of November 6, 2024, I don’t like people except everyone at the Lupe concert.
We were sent into a time before Obama….
I’d became a teenage skateboarder……
I’m writing books about a new Cointelpro which I’ve determined is also a psyops..
After that election…
I’m sitting in my living room.
I’m a teenager.
I want naked ladies, food and rap.
Friday night, I’m sitting in Columbus Athenaeum which makes every concert feel special.
I’m watching a room full of Hip Hoppers who are excited about Lupe Fiasco in 2024.
Lupe’s audience is predominantly young black people.
I’m watching Lupe’s delivering Hip Hop’s promise.
A dope mc transcends any context.
We’re all being reminded..
Hip Hop defeated white supremacy several times without quite as much people power.
Lupe’s song Samurai off his latest album’s Samurai receives a similar response.
People know Lupe’s new album line for line.
Lupe was once on Kanye’s 2004 Touch the Sky.
Lupe isn’t riding a platinum feature in 2024.
Everyone in that room knew Lupe’s new music.
Lupe then raps, Kick Push.
I’d forgotten Lupe released a song about skateboarding.
Lupe’s manages a discussion about relationships in the midst of individualistic passions.
I’m wondering if Virgil played Jesus Lizard for Ye, and Lupe.
Lupe’s audience is much younger than Virgil’s late 80’s skating..
Virgil’s importance was taking 80’s skating iconography into 2016 Hip Hop fashion.…
Lupe describes something every skaters’ experiences.
Police kick skaters out of skate spots..
Romance..
Passion…
Lupe’s music, and raps were clear, crisp while the simple melody and drums reminded everyone of liking something.
I’m really angry about people participating in lies, white supremacy and misogyny renewing a 4 year commitment into something I wasn’t ever interested in.
Kick Push reenforced my instincts of counterculture’s beauty.
During the show…someone kept yelling H-Town..
Lupe acted annoyed at the interruption …
Lupe acted like someone showed up in Chicago screaming “Where Brooklyn at?”
Lupe Fiasco repped where he was standing like Columbus wasn’t 5 hour and 30 minute drive from Lupe’s city Chicago.
“We’re in Columbus..why are you yelling a different cities’ name.”
We all wanted Lupe performances of Hip Hop Saved My Life…but we respected that Lupe kept saying Columbus..
Lupe played another couple of joints..
Then after Samurai’sMumble Rap…
Lupe rocked, Hip Hop Saved My Life.
Hip Hop Saved My Life is about a Houston rapper who finds personal meaning and hope after recording a Rap.
I thought about Hip Hop Saved My Life.
This song was unique because Lupe, an intelligent mc wasn’t dissing Southern rap as ruining Hip Hop.
Lupe understood Hip Hop importance in culture.
I realized Lupe’s “biggest” songs 2006’s Kick Push and 2007’s Hip Hop Saved My Life avoided internal divides.
Lupe appealed into the humanities.
I haven’t quite developed a solution for the cold civil war.
I know finding an audience inside of an individual is where Lupe earned rapport.
Once someone trusts you then…you conversate into cultural change.
This reminded me of Hip Hop’s social skills.
Lupe found my soft-spot with Kick Push.
Then Lupe found some DJ Skrew loving Texan’s soul with Hip Hop Saved My Life.
I realized the beauty of the midwest.
I loved skateboarding.
I loved DJ Skrew.
I love Hip Hop.
Lupe rocked Drill Music in Zion.
There was sequenced where Lupe went from Kick Push into rocking real hard Twista, Wild Style took Adrenalin Rush with Drill.
Lupe looked like Cam’ron.
Lupe was in shape.
Lupe’s fade was on point.
I thought: Lupe’s speaking Midwest Bone Bone Bone…
People were throwing bows, and dancing like we were at Club Ice circa Papa Jack.
Lupe stepped back and Dead Prez’d the audience with Freedom Ain’t Free.
I was taking notes that Lupe was rhyming with breath control.
Lupe was using call and response.
While Lupe was rocking midwest hardstyles…
I wondered…
Can Lupe perform Gadget Flow live…
People were feeling Krunk…
Lupe chatted with the enthusiastic audience.
Lupe talked with Fiasco’s dejay….
DJ Smokey dropped the beat.
Lupe said… “I’m from the best city in the whole wide world.”
Lupe paused..
Lupe yelled “Columbus!”
The dejay dropped the beat again..
‘I’m the best city in the whole wide world.’
Lupe rapped into the audience from a crouching position.
Lupe didn’t use recorded adlibs,..
Lupe’s deejay would say the lyric if Lupe stopped rapping for a second then Lupe would jump back in on beat.
I did every kind of inspection.
I looked at Lupe’s mouth. Lupe’s rapping.
I heard words.
I closed my eyes….
I watched his Deejay.
I’d determined this was one of the best live shows I’d seen.
Lupe landed everything and yelled..
“Columbus.”
Lupe talked with audience.
Lupe brought an artsy looking white girl on stage.
Lupe ballroom danced with this lady.
Within 2 minutes a really short white dude from the audience with a fitted was on stage with Lupe for Autoboto.
This white dude rapped with all the masculine aggression of a small macho man.
Lupe’s was around this short white man like they were lifelong friends.
I’m sure that little white man is still bragging..
Lupe Fiasco played Fundamentals which was Billy Blue song.
Billy Blue opened.
Billy Blue said he was Haitian at the beginning of Lupe’s set.
Billy Blue defended Haitians against haters.
Then Billy Blue rapped like Scarface in the manner Mobb Deep raps like Rakim.
Lupe’s other opener was Backwood Studio and critical acclaimed rapper Cavalier.
Cavalier’s braids and gear looked in place with Billy Blue and Lupe.
I watched Cavalier with Previous Industries earlier this year.
Cavalier is officially the flyest dressed rapper of 2024.
The second I contemplated Lupe Fiasco bumping Scarface and Raekwon…
“Touch the Sky” blared…
This was hearing a Dr. Dre song out of nowhere…
Lupe’s biggest verse references KMD, “Peach-fuzz buzz but beard on the verge”
Did I mention I love Hip Hop?
I caught a buzz and then…
I’m rapping along with Paris, Tokyo.
I started prancing in Chuck Taylor Converse.
I moved my feet so I could look at my shoes..
I walked into that room angry at everything…
2 hours later..
I’m dancing like I’m in a video.
Lupe rocked Mural out of audience request.
Next thing I know…We’re all singing like Bono.
Superstar..
“If you what you say you are..”
You can’t tell me nothing.
I’m rocking a piece.
I’m fucking an attractive naked lady.
I’m telling the white devils they white devils…
2025….let’s rock..
Lupe played his “Smells like Teen Spirit” Meets “Stake is High.”
Lupe played the best song of all time: Daydreaming..
We’re all floating like a melancholy above everything negative..
Daydreaming isn’t the best song ever recorded in all of music.
Daydreaming is the best song ever recorded in all of music.
Daydreaming isn’t the best song ever recorded in all of music.
Daydreaming is the best song ever recorded in all of music.
I feel like reading a book while complimenting someone and noshing vegan vittles. Daydreaming is where Kanye turned back into Mos Def.
Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.
Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.
While I’m basking in DayDreamining.
I hear Modest Mouse’s “Float On.”
Lupes rapping his hit song, The Show Must Go On.
I’m listening to Lupe rap about the Gaza Strip over Modest Mouse.
I’m thinking about what Lupe did with his Kanye fame..
Lupe’s two attempts at hit crossover songs: The Show Must Go on, and Words I Never Said.
Lupe didn’t play “Words I Never Said.”
During “Words I Never Said:
Lupe rapped over a dubstep beat almost a decade preceding popular dub step.
Lupe dissed Isreal’s treatment of Palestinians.
Lupe’s condemns American government’s complicity in Isreal’s oppression of Palestinians.
Lupe dissed terrorists who kill people in response.
Lupe denounced the disadvantages inner-city people face…
Lupe didn’t play “Word’s I Never Said.”
Lupe played The Show Must Go On.
I’m thinking about Lupe’s visions.
Bush’s approval rating was 22 percent right before “Words I Never Said” because of lying about the Gulf War.
“Words I Never Said’ as a single is a popular idea.
“The Show Goes On” released in 2010…
Lupe knew indie rock was popular and Israel oppression of people in Gaza was unlikable.
Lupe used the Kanye fame for success with “Kick Push” and “Hip Hop Saved My Live.”
Those other singles I love because for the strategy involved.
You wanna hit..
Ok… Fuck American’s Foreign Policy..
People hated George Bush….
I won’t speculate why Lupe didn’t play “Words I Never Said.”
I will say Lupe left the stage with me loving Daydreaming and really liking Lupe’s idea of a hit.
Lupe exited…
I thought…
Fiasco just ended his set with Modest Mouse and GAZA.
People roared…
Lupe returned for an encore…
Lupe talked with audience for second..
Lupe freestyles over “Never Forget You.”
Then Lupe rocked another Fiasco single…
“Dumb It Down.”
I wondered if we were supposed to yell, Dumb It Down as a call and response.
During this song…People chant bad advice at Lupe about making his music stupider..
Lupe said,
“You going over people’s heads lu.. “
Lupe stuck out the microphone..
We were supposed to yell, Dumb It Down.
We didn’t want Lupe to dumb it down..
But it made sense because dumb it down is the hook.
I’m once again saying to myself…
Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.
I wasn’t saying….. Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.
For the sake of the amount of rappers I like..
Lupe Fiasco is my favorite rapper.
Lupe Fiasco isn’t my favorite rapper.
Right before playing Hip Hop Save My Life…
Lupe quoted KRS-1…
“Krs-1 said this thing we mix of knowledge and movement.
If you’ve got knowledge than ur Hip..
If you’ve got movement you Hop..
If you mix knowledge and movement ..
You have Hip Hop..”
Entire room yelled Hip Hop…
Lupe’s December 2024 performance found elite experience in the league of KRS-1, Mos Def and Roots shows.
I’ve played Clairo’s songs from the Carlisle singers’ newest album CHARMED from ANONROCKNROLL.
I’m Charmed by Clairo.
I took the 2 from Campus, and jumped off near the North Market.
Clairo walked out into the sold-out Kemba Pavilion in almost a prom dress.
The original of Wu’s, “Tears” boomed into the evening.
I stood around as teenagers and College kids were enamored at a brunette from Carlisle’s entrance.
Clairo sat on the stage and drank booze with Clairo’s band while the Wu-Tang original seemed like pure essence.
I was confused why Clairo and Clairo’s band were just sitting on the stage.
Until I realized Clairo was partaking in something I’ve done a zillion times..
Bumping WU and drinking….
Clairo is like if Fiona Apple’s peer is El Michel’s Affair instead of Alanis Morrisette.
Fiona Producer John Brion equals Leon Michels in our appreciation of women who make music with an ambition of satiating those who like Nina Simone but discovered Nina Simone died in 2003.
Except she’s much younger…
Clairo’s politics are of a progressive women who collects punk records..
She follows Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez on instagram…
She reminded me of punk girls I know…
Except instead of Punk records…
Clairo bumps records legendary rap producers sampled or would like sampling.
I’m certain Clairo owns a record player.
She’s down with the Big Crown Record community.
Big Crown is El Michal’s Affair’s label.
El Michel’s Affair covers Wu Songs with an intent of sounding Stax Records instead of Wu.
Big Crown releases music by The Roots’ Dave Guy, Lady Wray and others as well as El Michel’s Affair’s songs.
El Michel’s Affair works with Black Keys, and Black Thought of the Roots.
Clairo contains extended Columbus Culture…
I promise…
I stood their laughing because I’d walked into a sold-out venue and saw every young woman emulating someone who seemed like someone I would date.
Young women’s current role model is a pretty DSA lady who likes Vintage rap influences.
Clairo sipped a cocktail while I responded like that tape was worth 10 dollars while 10 scholars knew I would act like the…
Clairo’s and Clario’s band launched into NOMAD off of Charm.
Clairo’s band resembled a 1950’s or 1960’s band.
Clairo delivered purity.
Clairo’s presence wasn’t of a iconic superstar.
She seemed like a young women whose political views and songs stumbled upon a stage in front of a sold-out outdoor pavilion.
Clairo’s presence appeared dazzled 5,200 people showed up while Clairo and Clairo’s band drank while bumping vintage sounds
Clairo seemed like she took a show in Columbus without knowing if people would attend.
She seemed liked an introverted, composed woman who felt relief she found understanding.
Clairo asked if we could Slow Dance with Clairo during Slow Dance…
Clairo’s flute player made you think of Andre 3000.
I realized the future of rap influence on non-rap music was doing something better than Nu Metal.
A bulk of music lessons any Hip Hop writer existed in dominated the stage from someone who 26 with a young audience.
Taylor Swift installed a record player in every young woman’s room.
Kamala Harris is playing Stevie Wonder and Mingus like I’m a freshman while figuring out records which are the essence of this dynamic culture.
Clairo was now making record digging part of a feminine allure.
Clairo played Terrapin about 9 songs in.
Her backdrop changed several
The lighting would change from a full-band with interesting instruments into illuminating Clairo as a starlet.
Clairo would walk over and played a classic keyboard.
Clairo seemed astonished and chagrined.
She thrifted this dress she thought was cute.
She owned some rare, weathered instrument which she thought was cool..
Clairo friends were really into cell phones..
Clairo owns a cellphone but thinks records, and instruments look and sound cool…
People thought Clairo was strange….
….For learning about something she wanted as a dream vocation.
Clairo played Amoeba which isn’t about Amoeba Record Store but still adds into truth: Vinyl outlasted the CD.
Clairo then sang, “Happy Birthday,”
It wasn’t my birthday but everything felt like I’m celebrating my birthday.
Who would’ve known…
Clairo jumped into van um…a tourbus…
5,200 people showed up…
It was funny the amount of women who resembled Clairo everywhere.….
I feel like comparing Clairo and Erykah Badu wouldn’t be exact…
Clairo’s prom dress changed into raincoat while crooning anonanonanonanon and on in front of a cosmic backdrop.
I discovered this song name: 4 Eva.
Clairo felt like if Badu and BJORK were a shy suburban girl who liked Jane Birkin ….and made bedroom pop..
Clairo’s show was already the quality Charm implied.
Clario soon launched into Sexy2Someone which is about a need for coveting.
Bustown’s outdoor pavilion sung along.
Clairo’s show finale was Juna.
Clairo entered with a cocktail while conjuring Wu.
Clairo left the stage after playing Clairo’s most popular songs.
I walked into the Short North while looking at Kamala voting signs.
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