Comments on: LA Times: Live Review-Wale & Blu @ The Key Club

By: tuko

tuko — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:48:14 +0000

should be a good show… love Wale…
http://eardrumspop.blogspot.com/

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:33:39 +0000

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.

By: leftside

leftside — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:23:27 +0000

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.

By: dudeguy

dudeguy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:01:42 +0000

It’s ok to have a comment.