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Concert Wed Sep 19 2007
Red Gone Wild? Tonight's Da Night.
One of the genre’s underrated lyricists, Redman’s subject matter is largely
weed and how badly you suck compared to him. He has yet to enjoy huge commercial success, but his live shows are long, bass-filled affairs. By no means can you call him socially conscious, he nevertheless fills in a void in hip-hop where it’s still cool to rhyme well, do dumb things, and be backed with enough thump to make both weed-addled and sober asses move.
What Redman has that a lot of mainstream artists today don't have (for commercial purposes, anyway) is a sense of humor. It's hard to laugh in a genre where most of the CD racks contain images of black dudes daring you to buy the album or they'll fuck you up, but Red's sense of humor has prevailed long after his peers went into the business of scaring white hipsters into giving them money to hear about how hard they are.
Redman brings his Red Gone Wild tour party to the Abbey Pub today. Show's at 9, tickets are $25 at the door or online, and the contact high should get you around 9:07, accompanied by bouncing. Numerous local acts open, so Red won't make it to stage before 11 or so, but a good time should be had.
-"Tonight's The Night" (1992)