LA Times: Live Review-Wale & Blu @ The Key Club
Sick and in no mood for pleasantries or feigned witticisms, as a grotesque and sudden illness precluded me from leaving the house to watch the Super Bowl and seeing Mulatu Atsatke and Cut Chemist. Needless to say, I’d be on the warpath could I stand on sturdy legs.
In the meantime, I caught Wale’s set Thursday night, with Blu as the opener. Both were great, but the highlight was arguably Warren G coming out to perform “Regulate.” The review is short (450 words) and I’d hoped to expand on my thoughts in this post, but clarity isn’t exactly my strong suit right now–if it ever was. Posting may be light over the next few days, or confined to whiny posts involving ancient blues songs and Warren Zevon. The usual convalescent cavalcade.
LA Times: Live Review–Wale & Blu @ Key Club
Download:
MP3: Wale & Southeast Slim-”Flat Line”
MP3: Wale-”Warrior Freestyle”
MP3: Blu-”Change Ya World”
MP3: Blu-”Vanity”
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February 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 am
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February 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Wale is a good to pretty good emcee and is doing a lot of things in a fresh and cool way. But I don’t know if he’s done enough on his OWN (ie. without other’s music and concepts) to warrant the critical acclaim. I feel sometimes like its all a big well orchestrated ploy to… well, he says it, get a Grammy. Taking favorite hipster/blogger songs and rhyming over them is cool for blogs and maybe even live shows, but what we think of a true music artist. His “original” stuff is just mostly boring.
It will be interesting to see how Blu and Exile’s solo albums do respectively. Exile’s new stuff - and live show - excites me much more.
Sorry to hear you could not make the Mulatu show. Cut Chemist did an amazing one turntable set (with sampler) and Quantic dug deeep. Mulatu and his FANTASTIC band were a real once in a lifetime treat.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Fair enough–but I think off “Perfect Plan” and “Kramer’ alone he’s written two songs more intelligent and nuanced than almost anything I’ve heard during this decade. Yeah, Blu and Exile was great too. I’m hoping to do a post on Exile and Exile Radio sometime soon.
Damn, that kills me to hear about Mulatu, but I figured as much. I tried to man up and go because I knew that it would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Unfortunately, I ended up puking in a 7-11 parking lot in Alhambra about a mile from the show and turned around and drove home. Good times.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 pm
should be a good show… love Wale…
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