Soul Phunk at the NBA2k9 Tour

Last weekend I attended the NBA2K9 Tour with The Knux, The Cool Kids, and headliner Q-Tip at Warehouse Live in Downtown HOUSTON.

I had to stop by and check out this gaming event for myself, though.

Did you ever recognize that there are more GameStop stores everywhere and hardly any music stores anymore? It's just an observation from my MTV Rock Band compliance work...

You best believe the concert was off the chain too!
But, did you know that Q-Tip was one of the first hip-hop artists to rap and sing (mostly) on an album while producing it all by himself? The only rap artist to do that successfully has been Andre 3000. That particular album for Q-Tip was Kamaal: The Abstract and it was never released due to some label thingamajigs and whatever else went on. That was in 2002. I know that Andre 3000 likes ATCQ, so maybe that's where he kind of got the idea to make The Love Below from.

Now, the year is 2008 and that show was great. Q-Tip didn’t do any Kamaal: The Abstract songs unfortunately, but he did do some from his new album. He even did some ATCQ (A Tribe Called Quest) cuts. I just thought I'd share some knowledge.

Here's a quote I found from Q-Tip about that subject:

“I am really disappointed that Kamaal wasn't released,” Q-Tip says. “LA Reid didn't know what to do with it; then, three years later, they release Outkast. What Outkast is doing now, those are the kinds of sounds that are on Kamaal the Abstract. Maybe even a little more out. Kamaal was just me, guerrilla.”
THAT'S WHAT I SAID!

The Cool Kids were cool as usual. Check the footage below for that show!




The Knux also performed and they did a good show. It was my second time seeing them in HOUSTON.

I’m not done yet though, ya’ll. That night, this chick bought me a drink because she saw me working on this blog post after the concert. That’s what’s up! She was saying something talking about, "Hey you. You shouldn't be working at 1:30am." I was just chilling and said something to the matter of, "It's just what I do. I have to make that money."

Then she was like, "Yeah, but it's 1:30 and you're in a bar." It was whatever at that point. I just took that drink and got the information after that.

You know what's up.

Shout out to the big door dude and Hector for the hookup!

Come to think of it, I kind of promoted Q-Tip when I worked the campaign for The Wackness soundtrack. "Can I Kick It?" was featured on it.
Click here for that post.

LeAndre

Source: Wikipedia