Video: Rock The Bells Press Conference

Rock The Bells 2009 Press Conference


Chang Weisberg gives all the info (as of yet) on the Rock The Bells lineup. It's gonna be hosted by KRS-1, Supernat, Murs, and Pete Rock. Hopefully Supernatural will actually stay on stage for minutes at a time this year...

Rock The Bells '08 Coverage pt.2 pictures

Ghostface gracing the stage

Well, it's 3 day's after Rock The Bells, I've had a horrible week, and quite frankly, I've been exhausted since Rock The Bells, so here's the deal. I'm gonna give you guys a little treat, instead of a review, I'm just gonna post the best pictures that i took (excluding those that i already posted).
Leave a comment saying what your favorite pic is.

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Supernat in the crowd during De La Soul's performance

Bootie Brown of Pharcyde

Imani of Pharcyde fighting hater's off with a high kick

Slimkid3 of Pharcyde spitting it to the hoard of fans

Redman as usual in the spotlight

Method Man reading the info for the Wu-Tang after party to the crowd

Not one of my best pics, but what's Rock The Bells without a pic of Nas

Immortal Technique at Rock The Bells '08

Immortal Technique does his thing, including spitting the verse in spanish that I spoke on earlier.

Video courtesy of Guerilla Union.
Rock The Bells 2008
August 2nd
Miami, FL
Filmed By Jay Santos of The Morning Tilts

Supernatural at Rock The Bells

The Supernatural video i was speaking of.

Video courtesy of Guerilla Union.
Rock The Bells 2008
August 2nd
Miami, FL
Filmed By Jay Santos of The Morning Tilts

Rock The Bells '08 Coverage pt.1

A Tribe Called Quest performing at the event

Rock The Bells. The gathering of today's up-and-coming artists, current all-stars, and MC's that have been around since the birth of hip-hop. Rock The Bell's first took place in California, 2004, and re-united Wu-Tang onstage. The thing about Rock The Bells, is that despite all of the horrible rappers out there (see Soulja Boy, Lil' Wayne, Jim Jones, etc.) they seem to find a way to exclude them from the festivities.

This year's show was no different. With a pretty amazing line-up and Supernatural as the "host" (he came on stage about three times). Naturally, Supernat had to bust a freestyle, it's what he does (the video will be up soon)

So finally, after some delays, the first performer BOB came out. Now, I'm not that big of a BOB fan, so i didn't pay much attention to his performance.

After BOB however came Murs.

Murs
I wasn't looking to forward to watching Murs due to his one song that I had heard previously (can't remember the name). However after watching him, I was pretty convinced that i had been wrong before. He's a pretty good MC after all, and he's pretty cool; insulting Soulja Boy (you always get cool points for that) even bringing his mom onstage.



Next up on the line-up was my man

Immortal Technique

Now Immortal absolutely tore up the stage. I went to the event with my friend, and before Immortal's performance, he didn't like him much. After however, he told me that he was gonna go home and get some of his shit.

He played a whole mess of his songs, including "Bin Laden", "Point of No Return", "Peruvian Cocaine", and "Obnoxious". In between these performances he gave some speeches and even spit his verse from "Golpe de Estado"acapella off of The 3rd World.

Once Technique was through Dead Prez came on

Dead Prez
I'm going to be completely honest with you. I know that Dead Prez is one of the most amazing duos in hip-hop, but i was never really into them, hence, I didn't know any of the songs that they performed. They weren't bad, but they were definitely not the best act.
After Dead Prez performed, i took a little break in the lounge, which is what I'm going to do now. I've decided to break this up into 3 or four parts, it's a lot of work writing a review, having to edit all the video's yourself, and on top of that working the day after a twelve hour concert. I will get to writing the other parts of the review immediately, so check back soon.


BTW, video's of Supernatural's freestyle and Immortal Technique's speeches will be up as soon as I can upload them to the oh so fast YouTube
-Jay "Shogun" Santos

P.S.
All pictures were taken by Jay Santos (that's me)

The Snow Patrol- "Chasing Cars" cover by David Sides

This time David Sides hit's up The Snow Patrol's hit "Chasing Cars". Once again, masterfully done.


On a side note, tomorrow will most likely be completly post-less due to my coverage of Rock The Bells. I'll try to put something up in the morning before i go, but i can't make any promises. I'll be back with coverage on the event, with and interview that you guys may like.

Jay "Shogun" Santos

Rock The Bells Coverage

So yeah, i officially got a Press Pass for Rock The Bells, giving me the best possible view of the event. I'll hit you guys up with the best possible coverage once I can. It's not till saturday, but I'm already hyped. Come back sunday for the full report.

-Jay "Shogun" Santos

Rock The Bells Coverage

Rock The Bells is this saturday, and i know that the regular tickets are sold out (V.I.P. passes are still available). So for all of those that can't go, i'm going to try to get you guys the best coverage that i can. I'm working on getting a press pass, to get the best coverage possible, so wish me luck guys.

-Shogun