Justin Timberlake's show at the Staples Center last night was more theater than concert. Star-studded and overflowing with mostly fly ladies and celebrities (I alone spotted Taye Diggs and Jody Watley) like Kanye West, Penelope Cruz, Orlando Bloom etc etc. JT did not disappoint playing every single he's dropped until finally closing the show with a smile and a “That's all I got.” But BFF Timbaland nearly stole the show with his twenty minute deejay set tha house on fire.
As URB's Office Manager (and oh so much more), concertgoer Clarissa Butler (full disclosure: four of us from URB took our JT-adoring selves to the show to wild out) recounts the evening (and frankly, it's amazing any of us can remember):
Dancers swaggered and swerved elegantly about the cross-shaped stage as Justin took turns with personas such as …
What's the real story behind Geffen's True Magic gaff? Is Mos just ready to jump to Koch? Or just jump out of music in general? How is it in stores if it's not officially released? Will new tracks, artwork and remixes make the album not suck? Who would win in a fight—Black Jack Johnson or the Surfing Jack Johnson? Just who are the 11,000 people that bought True Magic, enough to have it debut in Billboard's Top 200, and how did they even know to look for it?
The answers to some of these questions can be found here in an interesting read from the Village Voice's Makkada B. Selah in an article that's nearly as confusing as this whole underground-cred soap opera.
There were plenty of wild verses and equally frenzied cuts as prodigious MC-DJ duo Eyedea & Abilities took the Abbey Pub’s stage in Chicago Saturday night. Reunited after a two-year hiatus, the boys from Minneapolis seemed energized as they worked through new, old and spontaneous songs.
The sell out crowd seemed to know all the words when E&A went by the book on cuts like “Man Vs. Ape” “Exhausted Love” and “Paradise” but the duo spent much of their set testing out new tracks some of which came together on the spot. With either Abilities cutting up a beat and Eyedea jumping in with a rhyme, or vise versa, they knocked the rust off their rapport and came together to trade notions and solos.
Eyedea’s rhyme style is still completely untamed with cadences more inspired by Coltrane’s horn than …
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