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Three's Company
THREE LOCAL HIP-HOP
acts made history on Friday night, drawing a good 500 or so kids out to the
Catalyst all by themselves, for the first time ever. Local promoter
extraordinaire Flex has been faithfully booking local hip-hop acts
throughout the summer, but this was their first stand-alone show at the
Catalyst ... and it rocked. Sayre, Coley Cole, Ashkeyz and DJ
Silly Kid of the Lost and Found Generation opened up with a
clean, aggressive set, rocking out with the superfreaky "Guns to Ink" and
winding up with the venomous "Music for Frat Boys to Dance To" from the
One Side Away EP. Next up was Genelec and Memphis Reigns, who
(along with DJ-ology) killed it Friday night with explosive
performances of "Sunwheel," "Elephantightus" and an R-rated version of
"Chicken Soup," plus a freestyle jam lamenting the suckage of the Lakers,
among other things. When they left the stage, their fans wanted more, but it
was Duce Company's turn and, oh yeah, they killed it, too.
Prolific, Omen and Natalie got off to a good start with
"Duce Comp Parlay," but when they dropped the circus insanity of "Right
Here," the crowd just blew up into a sea of bouncing heads and hands up
high in the air. Bob came out, rapped and did his Irish jig, and
then the Moonies stormed the stage for some supergroup action, and
they helped close out the show with beatboxing and an a capella encore, but
in a near party-crashing moment, Rob Rush botched a back-flip onstage and
nearly landed on his freakin' head. As a gymnast, I recommend wall sits
and calf-raises to pump up those jumpers, because I don't ever want to see
that happen again.
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