Steddy P @ Shadow Lounge 7-2-2012

     Live hip hop shows have always been, in my opinion, for getting boozed up. It's pretty rare that I can go to a live, hear someone for the first time, and be into anything more than their presence and beats. Leaving out the element most important to me, the lyrical content. However last night that outlook of going to shows just to get faded changed considering the fact that I'm broke and virtually unemployed.

      So when I heard about Proseed and Fortified PhonetX throwing a show at Shadow Lounge I could think of every excuse not to go so I could stay home and save money. But when my brothers in arms were frantically sending out texts last minute to avoid a flopped show I couldn't help but go out and support them when I'd rather be sitting in my lonely apartment listening to rats shit in my silverware drawer. Not to mention one of the texts I got said the $5 cover was reduced to $3 for fellow artists, and I assumed I'd be able to get a little buzz up by stealing drinks off of rich girls while they weren't looking.
     I arrived to the show two and a half sets in(missing Frigid Giant, Dos Noun, and part of Proseed), and to my dismay wasn't able to get in at the rumored reduced rate. No worries though, because I went out to try and salvage my friends potentially small show, one $5 cover charge at a time. Also to my dismay half the girls there were in some way related to Moemaw Naedon, making it a little uncomfortable to steal drinks from them in case I got caught.
     Either way, I showed up just in time to catch my first show experience with Steddy P. And although I was crabby and sober, the dude from Kansas City killed it. Steddy P's set was super enthusiastic and you could tell he was more than happy to be in Pittsburgh for the first time. One of my favorite lines of his that really stuck with me was,"work hard, play hard, party hard, fuck hard... until we reach the graveyard." He ended his set by inviting everyone in the audience to go do shots with him. If only I could have...
     He's got free shit online, and seems to be the touring type, check it out, then don't be a scrub like me and buy his shit when he rolls through your town and do some shots with him.


http://www.facebook.com/steddyp
http://steddyp.bandcamp.com/

The Deadly Scribes - The Situation

Pretty much from 10th or 11th grade until a few months ago I had been working at Head Board Shop, a skate shop in Pittsburgh. I must admit it was a pretty perfect job for a full time slacker like myself. Watch skate videos during the day shifts, drink beer during the night shifts, and although I'm not much of a smoker, smoke in the basement after I closed just because I could.

During the last winter I worked there business had been pretty slow. To the point where I decided to take the initiative upon myself to sort through the clutter of former employee's left behind cds, and promotional cds people had dropped off over the years and sell them to The Record Exchange to make a little bit of extra revenue for the store. I was carefully sifting out the promo cds where the bar codes had been punched out, when I stumbled across this gem, The Deadly Scribes release The Situation.

The cd had come out long before I had started getting my feet wet in the Pittsburgh rap scene, but I knew of the legacy Dos Noun and any of his work had left behind. So needless to say this cd didn't go to the the pile to sell, nor did it stay in the store copy pile, instead I nonchalantly slid it into my back pack, and totally forgot about the project I started. As I always did at the skate shop while trying to do a good deed.

A few weeks later I saw Dos at a show and in a drunken state of excitement I was able to walk directly up to him, interrupting the conversation he was having with his girlfriend, and told him about my find. He casually congratulated me on my discovery and told me, "...that cd and 5 bucks might get you a beer..." I'm still not certain what this expression meant. Especially considering I won't but a beer if it costs over $2.50(unless it's a 24 ounce). After all how could I afford to while working at a skate shop since 2004.

The Deadly Scribes - The Situation

Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Youngstown. "Piffalotown"

Wednesday March 2nd was the cristening of a new Pittsburgh venue with Dos Noun, who you thought was done rapping but has been killing it undercover for nearly half a decade since his retirement, MC Homeless who recently dropped his album 27 that you can buy on itunes or stream part of it on his myspace and still bumps jams from his first full length Trapped Under An Ohio Sky, Plots whose ep So Social you can download for free, and Stillborn Identity who also has an ep you can download for free called Less is More.
Thursday March 3rd at The Vault in Buffalo, Ny.  MC Homeless, Stillborn Identity, Frigid Giant splitting a set with Mic Mechannic of Narror Minded Youth, MilkSoda, and Zev spitting over a live improv band.

While waiting for his birthday show, Homeless anticipated his death around each corner eager not to join the 27 club, but lo and behold his 28th birthday was celebrated with great success in Youngstown, Oh Saturday March 5th thanks to some recent press he received in the local Youngstown paper among other things.