Old Mr Dangerous said

But back to ALHS… there is just something special going on in that album. The production, the lyrics, the story, even the skits. Fats Belvedere reminds me of a few dudes I knew from NY growing up. One dude actually had the nickname “New York”. I played poker with him at my brother’s house once. Years later I re-met him in jail. Turns out he had stolen my brother’s Playstation games (unfortunately I was accused of it… that hurt), but I didn’t know until much later. New York, he gave me a bunch of Ramen packs in front of everyone. My other brother told me that wasn’t exactly a good thing.. more like he was making a show for me to do him a favor at a later date. But I was out of jail pretty quick and never had to reap the consequences of someone “just being friendly”.

Also, when that dude raps “plus the bitch fart in her sleep” made me laugh out loud the first few times.

That album fucking sounds like New York City. It sounds like any city in the summer. Just fantastic.  

Mad respect for this. Never known anyone appreciate that album or subject matter, the same as I do. 

This album transcends borders and nations. It speaks to anyone who came up in a city around those city people. 

genocide_cutter said
Also They need to get Freddie Gibbs this year

If they get Danny Brown on board too, they could perform “High”, live. That would be unreal.

Manu Miltary

Dubmatique

Les Anticipateurs

Backxwash

SLM

Celine Dion

Tomorrow tickets go on sale, so hopefully we get the full list of who is supposed to attend. 

We all have a like/hate relationship with Limp Bizkit (well, mostly just Furious Fred Dursty), but I admit they would be a fantastic addition to close out the first or second night. Pure guilty pleasure band that actually had some great tracks on their first couple disc’s. 

I found that no matter how much we love hip hop, horrorcore, etc.. it can get pretty bland pretty quickly at these long festivals, hearing people rap over beats nonstop. Even the most talented rappers can just become white noise at concerts… so to have some live instruments with metal artists and such, always kicks things into high gear. It is a strange effect: too much hip hop can make even the blander GOTJ metal bands like Dope sound super aurally refreshing. Variety is good, is what I’m saying. That’s why I want Mayday and Rehab there, to start. Live instruments, man. 

All this being said, I’m still content with it being 3 days instead of 4 or 5. Less is more, IMO.

Hoping I can go but that is right about the time I am relocating back east to start my new job so who knows.