GHOSTFACE KILLAH

GHOSTFACE KILLAH

Original Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah played at the Beach Hotel at Byron bay on the 1st of june. Thrashing Teens was on that shit. Word Up.

I was skeptical about this purely because of sketchy reports of the show he just played in Brisbane. Apparently the crowd (full of Brisbane’s hardest crews such as the “Logan Crips”– eeek) didn’t respect his minute of silence for Michael Jackson. Fuck skepticism and fuck that crowd. The Byron bay show was dope. The commitment he showed for the entire gig was only shut down by the local noise “curfew” that apparently starts at midnight. What the fuck was with that? It’s Byron fucking bay! Everyone envisions it as this chilled out party town but I guess they don’t like live music past a certain time. Maybe it keeps the paranoid old hippies up? I kind of felt like I was getting down to some rad beats at my grandma’s house, but oh well. The Killah wasn’t too stoked about it either, he wanted to keep bumping his shit. The man is a rarity within himself because of his approach towards the hip hop genre he shared a part in fathering. Throughout the shifting musical content, he fizzled in the point of how ashamed he was of the terrible mainstream shit that people associate with the term hip hop today. “It aint about what you got. It’s about what you say.” IHe continued to blast out some absolute classics off of Fishscale and his newest Big Doe Rehab then brought it back to textbook, 90’s skate movie shit off of the Clan’s original 36 chambers. He finished the show off by saying he would be prepared to get back over here as soon as we wanted him too, which was fucking awesome. He did however say this before he invited the “ladies” in the house to come up and dance with him. I have to say, I don’t think any of them fit the “shorty” category at all but you could see there deluded, derro boyfriends looking on with some sort of pride. Maybe they thought a little differently than I did. Anyway, lets just hope the grizzly bear chics he invited up on stage didn't scare him away and that he really does make a return. He is definitely one of the last of a dying breed - the intelligent, talented hip hop artist. -Ian