So Shaun, Sterling, Duane, Justin, and I headed down to Exchange LA on a Thursday night to check out this promising event.
HANDS DOWN, best show I've been to all year. I had so much fun. The venue was great, and the stages were set up at all four corners and had a balcony so you pretty much had a view of all four stages no matter where you stood.
Four of LA's biggest soundsystem's came together to battle it out.
Stone's throw, the winner, delivered and then some. They represented everything I love about hip-hop. They were classy and confident and didn't try any special tricks to win the crowd over. And Mayer Hawthorne held my mother f%^&ing hand. I die.
Dim Mak was probably the biggest upset of the night, playing semi-old songs and using every trick in the book like dancing girls and beer bongs to try to sway the crowd but the thing that put the nail in the coffin was that stupid skinny white boy with the pink beanie who was dancing on stage. It's no surprise they got boo'ed by the end of the night. They should have come prepared with the Bloody Beetroots and Steve Aoki to go against 12th Planet, Craze, J. Rocc, and PB Wolf. Instead they bring Them Jeans and Fashen? Too bad so sad.
Dub Club was chill, like reggae music should be. They didn't try too hard. They just were who they were and played the music they loved and that was that. No gimmicks. Just love and reggae. So humble. I liked that.
Smog. Wow. wobble-wobble-wobble-wobble. 12th Planet and Craze were amazing and it was hard to chose between them and Stone's Throw until they got cocky towards the end and played "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled.
Hope they have another one because I felt so happy and blessed to experience this. Definitely in the top three shows of my life.
Congrats again to Stone's Throw!
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