Boy in da corner

Boy in da corner
The dizzee rascal concert @ the gaelic club last weekend was pretty tight. I didn't know much about this British rapper but he's got some good rhymes. The place was packed out - approx. 400 people. When he came on stage and did the first freestyle as a kind of mic check, that was pretty cool . I think that stunned and impressed the crowd a bit. In terms of acoustics, it was a bit hard to hear him at times, cause he's got some brixton kind of accent and he raps kinda fast. His beats are different too - garage beats, which is popular in the UK. I was impressed that the majority of the crowd (well at least on the dancefloor) knew his songs as he was getting the crowd to participate in them. Although i suspect that the most people didn;t know all this song.

The concert was pretty short, approx like 45 minutes. I felt a bit ripped off having been waiting there listening to the support acts for like 3 hours and then he shows up and is gone in a flash . When he left the stage I think the crowd was anticpating that he would come back and do an encore. In fact the DJ had to tell people like "he's not coming back!". That was only the flaw in the concert, although i major one. However, checking with Tim (the resident hip hop guru) Dizzie only has a pretty short track list as he only has one album.

I checked on Amazon.com, and a lot of the americans were giving him props as well. Dizzie is unique in the rap game because of his combo of garage beats and very fast story telling rapping style (kinda like Twista) and reminds be a bit of a young Busta Rhymes - a guy that is a bit odd in the rap game that he is experimenting with a lot of new sounds.

Have to admit that there was like one pretty cheesy segment - not that I am really complaining - but involved getting a bunch of girls on stage to dance to various beats. And Dizzie didn't even choose the best girls in the house! The crowd had to nominate to the DJ who to a part of the "dance-off" , so Tim and I started pointing at this hottie in the crowd downstairs (we were situated in the balcony upstairs). Another guy standing next to us saw what we were doing, and started going crazy too , pointing at her too, yellling out "Mr DJ - over here!". it was hilarious.

Other interesting notes were that there were these speakers stacked up like about 7-8 metres high and this dude has decided to walk across there from the balcony and watch the concert from there. It was funny cause he looked so outta place until security decided to drag his ass outta there.

Overall i rate the concert as a 8.5 out of 10. The support acts were quite good too and showcased some of the best of Aussie hip hop. Nervatude (not sure of the exact spelling) were a 2 man DJ team that were playing a lot of wicked beats. One guy was mixing on the tables and another was playing chords on the keyboard - pretty sick sounds were coming out. I orignally thought these guys were crap until they started combining the music into awesome arrangements. It looked even better as I was upstairs to see how they were mixing - a great view and I gained even more apprecation of how hard DJ's work and exactly what they do in a set.