Searius Add puts on an exhibition of "Lyrics & Love"

Back in February, Toledo native and Columbus-based emcee Searius Add planned to put on a show at Skully's Music Diner titled "Lyrics & Love", however Mother Nature had other plans as she blanked most of the state with several inches of snow. Fast forward to a month later, and the weather wasn't a factor at all as the now-titled "Lyrics & Love Reloaded"  set out to once again break Tuesday night attendance records at the High St. venue located in Columbus' Short North district.

The show was hosted by Benny Blanco and featured DJ Bern and DJ Mr. King on the 1's and 2's. The first act of the night to hit the stage was Lyrical Incisions and he was quickly followed by Tres Carter. As explained by Blanco, the "Tres" signifies the third coming of a great Carter, with the first two being Jay-Z and Lil Wayne respectively. 

Undefyned Entertainment's own Trek Manifest took to the stage with his brand of hip-hop that he calls his "Treknique", He performed a handful of songs from his recently released "The Coldest Winter" mixtape including "Back N Forth" and by the time his set ended, he had  jumped into the crowd to give the concertgoers a closer look at the self-proclaimed "Black Mamba"

After an introduction from one of Columbus' hottest beatmakers, Jack "A.U." Burton, the Chief Execs CEO, Sinatra came to the stage. He opened his set with the A.U.- produced "The Ruler's Back". He was later joined on stage by Snow a.k.a. Mr Low Yankee before eventually performing the Bob James-sampling "Nautilus 2010" which features Trek Manifest who had made his way up on the stage to rock once more.

The star of the show emerged wearing a suit and donning a slightly tilted matching hat. He kicked off his set with "Ideal Idea" and followed it with a spoken word poem called "Borderline Cute". Add would revisit the spoken word side of his craft once more towards the end of the night, but not before going into songs like "A Better Woman" and "Conscious Love". For the latter, he called a lucky lady to the stage, as he rapped to her.

With that, Searius closed out the "Love" side of Lyrics & Love. Moving into the "Lyrics" side, Add performed songs like "Translation" and the Logic-produced "That's My Girl". He also took four random words from members of the audience and constructed a spoken word piece that incorporated each of the words at least once. The words that Searius chose were: blue, fresh, orgy and barber, and as expected, Add spit his piece with remarkable ease. The show closed out with "Wut Dey Know", which is both produced by and features Sinatra.

For a show that took place on a Tuesday night, Lyrics & Love certainly had the feeling of a Friday night show. Some of Columbus' biggest and brightest were in attendance including DJ Krate Digga, J. Osceola, Ella Starr and Cridie Mac, among others. With this show, Add appears to now be two for two when it comes to packing the house and putting on a good show. One can only wonder what the future holds.