A dark and rainy day in the District of Columbia couldn’t have been anymore appropriate for the day the Depart From Me Tour hit the city. Personal, intense and at times a bit morbid, underground rapper Chris Palko, who you might know as Cage, played to a sold out crowd in the tiny dive bar known as DC 9, with help from Weathermen bud Yak Ballz and local hip-hop group Educated Consumers.

Doors opened at 8:30pm, I arrived to the bar from Baltimore at 9:00pm, however because this was Washington DC the parking was a fucking nightmare. After taking in deep consideration about letting some homeless man “watch” my car for 10 bucks, I decided on parking it in some alley behind DC’s 9:30 Club, which was probably illegal, but to my defense I had been …