So I just got back from Whiskey Dicks (but all the signs read "Fat Cat", so maybe they had changed their name, I dunno) to check out De la soul on tour. I don't know who was in charge of promoting the event, but I found out about it from a colleauge just a few hours before the show and the house was definitely not full.

I was never a huge fan of De la, but you know me... I'd do anything to get some inspiration, and one would expect the possibility of being inspired by one of the big old skool players to be pretty high.

So cubbie and I got there at 9pm, but the show didn't start untill 11:30pm! -.-;; Grrr... They were probably betting on the side of more people showing up as it got closer to midnight. Despite the not-so-impressive number of audience in the house, there was a good amount of old skool hip hop heads in the house who totally got down with De La's joints, so the atmosphere wasn't bad. The real problem was that the sound system was so horrible that it was really hard to make out the instrumental track in the background. This was rather dissapointing especially when Phife Dawg came out of nowhere and started busting out rhymes to some hot old skool joints like "Hot sex on the platter", "Check the Rhyme", and of course "Award Tour". The inferior sound system really killed the cool sound of Tribe's beats. :( With all complaints aside Phife's appearance was definitely a big surprise! Tribe Called Quest is often noted as the guys who took the Jazz Hip Hop phenomenon that De La had built to the next level, and, as members of the Native Tongues, the two bands had numerous collaboration efforts, but I never expected Phife to tag along on the De La Soul tour. I suppose this is a teaser into their new album? Of course the house went off the hook when Phife came out, and if only the sound system was up to par it would have totally made my night.

All in all we had a pretty good time. Many people these days don't even recognize De La cuz they really haven't had much success at all since their debut album, and I can only hope that their tour gets much more attention than it did in Pittsburgh. Best wishes guys!