The mic was red hot-hot last night at the Bend Distillery ("The Martini Bar"). My old friend and Portland compatriot Rocket One was in the house with his interstate PDX-righteous crew of super-fast-slang-talkin' dope-thumpin' dubbin'-junky hip-hop-funky-monkey's who together put on the best homegrown hip hop show I've ever seen to come to Central Oregon, and that's not to be complementary, that's to be exact!!!
With the MC's down at floor and eye-level the packed house of hip-hop-oriented Bend-ers put their hands up and got a taste of what its like to come face-to-face-to-face with some of Portland's and Bend-area's finest lyricists with a few out-of-state MC's proper, and it was scary for the suckas too (who subsequently had to escort themselves out the building)!!!
All up in the mix were MC's Sleep, Cecil Otter (Minneapolis), B-Dolan (Hanton City, RI), and of course Rocket One all backed by the 23 year old kid-scratch sensation DJ Zone! It was a round robin of heart-throbbin' scratch-tastic gut-wrenchin' sucka-lynchin' as all the MC's spit some very heart felt progressive dubs on their individually unique and poignant contemporary philosophies.
My ears are still ringing from the super def rounds left on the floor by the oldominion crew (especially the freakin' fireball that is Sleep, who woke everybody's ass up)...but yo, that's not to single him out, the whole scene was lit up from the talented line up that rattled off break-knots until the wee hours...the energy!!!
Hope to see more of this around town, obviously the people are down for more (after they recover from the forceful, positive and melodic impact they received last night).
You really cannot beat kickin' it with Rocket One and Crater Lake Vodka Martini's with a twist of PDX's finest hip hop (in Bend-O). Times are a-changin' indeed. Personally, I'm quite happy for that!
Wow...making me a lil' too proud over here just to have been there...you should have been too. Maybe next time.
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