The official release party of the Puget Sound Mixtape , the brainchild of Darxiide was held Wednesday, July 28th, at Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma. Hosted by Mr. Von, he and DJ Ice Man started the show welcoming guests and playing a few mixes. Special guest D-Rocc opened the show, performing with Golden Brown Entertainment. D-Rocc also performed the next night, July 29th at the Gentleman's Club in Tacoma with Island Trybe and Aomas Entertainment.
Mr. Von helped keep things organized by calling each performer on stage and DJ Ice Man remained a permanent fixture with his laptop playing snippets of the mixtape in between performances. Each artist performed a minimum of two songs, including his song from the mixtape.
After D-Rocc, the show continued with Mastermind, Dru Filthy, The Realest, AKA with Corey Lang and Jontae Grant, Greg Double G, Whikid, $krilla, Mr. Vonn and DJ Iceman with their impromptu acapellas, Golden Brown Entertainment, and finally Josh Rizeberg with EEEtree.
Dru Filthy shined by remixing his song featured on the Puget Sound Mixtape. The Realest performed their PSM track, My Angel, which is also featured on their new free album, "Till I Fall", demonstrating the ability of the hip hop genre to cover a variety of emotions and stories. Also from the free album, The Realest performed Coastin' and The Realest Intro. All of these tracks can be heard at the The Realest's website.
The best performances of the night were Greg Double G, AKA, and Josh Rizeberg. Audience members could see Greg Double G enjoying himself and dancing on the stage. He and his crew were especially expressive during his song, "All I Need" featuring Tycoon and MacWayne and "There She Goes" featuring Uncle Moo and MacWayne. Josh amazed everyone with an impromptu battle at the end of his gig after singing I-Self and another rap hyping the benefits of living healthy and the reality of the brevity of life.
On a personal note, it was nice to finally meet some of the artists featured in previous articles and to finally see some of their live performances.
Readers can still download the mixtape at Datpiff and Zshare.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
hip-hop is making a hopeful comeback from the ballad damage that has been done to it in recent years. yes, i know we're supposed to love Usher, but enough already.
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