Day 3 – Las Vegas: We added a show at the Beauty Bar in Vegas last minute and rocked outside in downtown (aka bizarro) Vegas. The setup was real cool, people were hanging out inside a small inside part of the venue at first and then more or less got released into the outside patio for the show. After the show, we caught a little bit of the bizarro Vegas steez including fried oreos (not as life changing as I had hoped), fried twinkies (almost life changing), drinking on the streets (definitely life changing), lots of weirdos (who prolly need their lives changed) and more.
Day 4 – Tempe: AZ is HOT. Really really hot. I know it’s in the middle of the desert and all, but I don’t get how people can live down there. I guess inside and by the pool all summer is how they do it. Anyways, the show was at a dope grimy spot and the all ages crowd was out early in full force (sometimes I forget how early you come out to shows when you’re 15 and still learning about concerts. Kids lining up an hour before the doors open with their Hiero shirts on is so cool to me). Anyways, the show went well, my little sister and her roommate checked us out, I finally met Pickster One of the infamous Blunt Club and we rocked a fresh afterparty at this spot called the Stray Cat afterwards (big up Sasha, DJ Reflekshin & the rest of the crew who had us come by).
Day 5 – Flagstaff: It’s crazy that just a few hours from the hottest place on Earth you can escape to the cool, ski/college town. 115 degrees & cacti to 70 & pine trees in like 3 hours, crazy. Anyways, the cooler weather was sooooooo refreshing after the desert heat, plus it gave me a chance to rock the super dope windbreaker that my boys from Akomplice sent out along with more dope gear from their new line. Back to the show, it was cool except for the venue was all ages and they split the crowd so that there was like 80% of the people on a small area to the right side of the stage (it looked real weird). The responses to the shows in some of these smaller spots is crazy though, people are way more appreciative to be able to see some good hip hop shows and it shows.
Day 6 – Albuquerque: New Mexico is weird. We were greeted at the hotel by a giant size roach that prompted us to head over to the venue (home to more roaches) early to track down a little internet access. Downtown Albuquerque is wild too. Me & Von swore we saw some hookers (they were chilling at the same spot from like 4 in the afternoon til we left at midnight to start the long ass drive to Texas), but it was hard to tell because in the Burque it seems like the streets are full of heavy, horny women (not my steez, but some other dudes on the tour were loving them…lol). With that said, the crowd down there was super into the show and copped mad merch (gotta love that).
Day 7 – Dallas: I gotta confess, in Colorado we like LOVE to hate on Texas. Our show in Dallas was my first trip down there and I gotta admit, Dallas was really dope. The people were mad nice, the city seemed nice from what I saw and the show was at a pretty cool spot too. With that said, the best part of Dallas was this AWESOME spot across from the venue called Aw Shucks where we grabbed fried catfish (the whole fish, bones & all on some real iddish, just the way I like it) & hushpuppies that were AMAZING (best meal of the tour so far) at like 11:30 at night (if anyone from Aw Shucks is reading this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE open up in Denver, me and my people will single handedly keep you in business).
Day 8 – Austin: Everyone I know told me Austin was the shit and I’d love it. I expected it to be dope and it still blew me away. We were there on a Saturday and man, I’ve never seen a party scene like that, ever. The road was shut down for like 8 blocks and there were thousands of people roaming the streets and it wasn’t even a special occasion, just a regular weekend. It was INSANE. Beyond that, I got to meet up with my Red Bull fam, Tresa & Danielle, who took me to the dope BBQ spot and showed me a little bit of Austin before the show (thanks again girls). And the venue, Emo’s, was super fresh too. It was outdoors and hot as hell but the setup was different that anywhere I’ve seen and definitely unique (they has bleachers in the back and you had to walk down a narrow ass, fenced in walkway on the roof to get backstage).
Day 9 – New Orleans: Never been to NO before. Post Katrina NO on a Sunday is prolly not the best intro but it’s what I got. The city is CRAZY, lots of flava (not flavor, tell ’em Don). Anyways, we rocked right next to Dwele at House of Blues (we were literally a fresh ass secret door away from his show running back and forth to catch parts of it. And speaking of Dwele, props to the homey Dameion Hines aka Check One aka Dwele’s sometimes drummer, too bad you weren’t at that show). Anyways, the show was cool and then we set out to check the scene. With that said, Bourbon Street on a Sunday REEKS of desperation, real bad. It’s like when the lights come on at a club except for all night long and even worse women. Anyways, we managed to have a fun ass night regardless and more importantly ate like kings the next day (Po’ boys w/o pickles are AWESOME, peep the Kyte).
Soundcheck time…More updates coming real soon…
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