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Bingowings II: The Revenge

Bingowings II: The Revenge

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Going to see El-P tonight.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS!!1!

Back from the show and i'm absolutely fucking beat. He only was allowed to play for an hour on a tiny fucking stage the size of my bed... but it was the most intense, raw, thundering, furious, energetic, compelling, funny, intelligent, and driven hour of music I have ever witnessed.

As the time approached the bar filled and I thought I was going to be stuck behind some cunt with only shoulders and backs to look at... but no, fuck it, this is El-P playing in my fucking town. Fuckers be damned. When Little Shalimar came on and fired up his guitar I forced my way to the front - then it began. El came on stage to screams and cheers and immediately burned into Request Denied and after that moment everyone's life changed forever. What followed was a selection of choice tracks from C4C given an incredible live arrangement full of intricacy and fire. I was enthralled for the whole time, screaming along to the lyrics and clapping my hands fucking raw like a spastic seal after each song. Then it was over. El slipped behind a curtain and everyone looked at each other - surely not - after Drones Over Stockholm, $4 Vic, The Full Retard etc. etc? NO! A brief pause and back on stage for a roaring version of Deep Space 9mm - I go fucking nuts. The crowd goes fucking nuts. Every word is bellowed back at El and he smiles.

And only when I stagger to the bar to get a beer do I realise that my body aches, my shirt is soaking with sweat, and I have lost my voice from the shouting. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Back from the show and i'm absolutely fucking beat. He only was allowed to play for an hour on a tiny fucking stage the size of my bed... but it was the most intense, raw, thundering, furious, energetic, compelling, funny, intelligent, and driven hour of music I have ever witnessed.

As the time approached the bar filled and I thought I was going to be stuck behind some cunt with only shoulders and backs to look at... but no, fuck it, this is El-P playing in my fucking town. Fuckers be damned. When Little Shalimar came on and fired up his guitar I forced my way to the front - then it began. El came on stage to screams and cheers and immediately burned into Request Denied and after that moment everyone's life changed forever. What followed was a selection of choice tracks from C4C given an incredible live arrangement full of intricacy and fire. I was enthralled for the whole time, screaming along to the lyrics and clapping my hands fucking raw like a spastic seal after each song. Then it was over. El slipped behind a curtain and everyone looked at each other - surely not - after Drones Over Stockholm, $4 Vic, The Full Retard etc. etc? NO! A brief pause and back on stage for a roaring version of Deep Space 9mm - I go fucking nuts. The crowd goes fucking nuts. Every word is bellowed back at El and he smiles.

And only when I stagger to the bar to get a beer do I realise that my body aches, my shirt is soaking with sweat, and I have lost my voice from the shouting. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sounds exactly like the Glasgow show, according to the review in this month's issue of The Skinny. I was actually there but I'm fucked if I can remember the deets, Deep Space 9mm encore aside. Absolutely MORTAL, so thanks for jogging my memory a bit.

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It's gotta be tongue and cheek surely, no-one can't like that shit in all seriousness. That video above is like two of the most annoying people ever chatting about utter shit.

Nah man, Nardwuar's interviews with rappers are legendary. Ghostface almost breaking down into nostalgic tears with all the records he was pulling out an shit, ya nahmean? Nas becoming a paranoid mess, worried for his life, Snoop microwaving a blunt. Str8 gem classixxx.

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Bingowings II: The Revenge

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Sounds exactly like the Glasgow show, according to the review in this month's issue of The Skinny. I was actually there but I'm fucked if I can remember the deets, Deep Space 9mm encore aside. Absolutely MORTAL, so thanks for jogging my memory a bit.

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Yeah, it was that tiny. Absolutely fucking belting. I have been listening to his stuff all day with a crazy grin on my face, remembering different parts of the show - between songs he stands up, dead serious, and earnestly tells us about the US election and how he would like to tell us one important thing... that he's not going to watch any of it. And that if he was President he would bring in a law that made drug dealers call you back :lol: Then he blazes into a dynamite version of Works Every Time.

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Good anecdotes and beats all the way through this 2-part trip down memory lane with the Alchemist (make sure you've got a Youtube tab opened up in order to listen along):

http://www.complex.c...records-part-1/

http://www.complex.c...records-part-2/

I was not in the studio with Snoop on that song but I’ve had mad vacations in the studio with him which are incredible stories. He came through with coffee bean sized bags of weed and he would roll two blunts the long way and have it looking like a retardedly overgrown magic wand, like a fat magic wand. It would be like smoking a piece of a tree. Anytime I ever did something with him in the studio, there was an obnoxious amount of smoke in the air.

Love the memories about Big Pun. Check it out.

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This is the one ya'll want ..

Ugh no.

The album that song was on was a massive let down when I got it back in 96. Apart from the first few tracks everything else was fairly dismal if I remember rightly.

Yeah pretty much. Well, maybe not dismal, but disappointingly ... average. Especially after two incredible LONS albums. Although:

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Ugh no.

Yeah pretty much. Well, maybe not dismal, but disappointingly ... average. Especially after two incredible LONS albums. Although:

That was easily the best track on the album. What ever has happened to the way Busta rhymes as after that album he stopped shouting and making strange noises to his boring current flow which sounds like someone talking really fast.

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