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Hip-hop punk band Krak Attack come to DC, met with unfazed crowd
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The Afropunk concert tour has kicked off with a 19 stop tour schedule that included DC this past Sunday at the Black Cat on 14th street, NW. Headlining the show was the slam poet, lyrical legend Saul Williams who has transitioned almost seamlessly into the world of music and acting. Also on the ticket were living rock legends Living Color and the hip-hop punk rock band Krak Attack.
Krak Attack, a duo consisting of DJ CX who also performs with Saul Williams, extends a high energy, very grimy and rough show that is not for the faint at heart. DC blogger Chris Kelly calls them trailblazers who have influenced hip hop acts including Andre 3000 and Lil Jon, but this writer is sure the DC audience present on Sunday were not aware of that, nor, could care less. Not only did the crowd not do the traditional fist pumping, head nodding sign of approval that most performers at least get when asked, there were no volunteers when the duo asked some girls to come on stage to help them perform their song "Big girl, skinny girl." Maybe the ladies in the front could sense how perfectly awful the song was, because not one volunteered to come onstage. Thankfully (for all involved), "security" said that no one was allowed on stage, which made it easy to identify a scapegoat and rant about them while on stage.
Near the close of their set, Krak Attack were so thoroughly disgusted by the feedback (or lack thereof) from the audience, CX literally walked off without a further word while his partner Tchaka Diallo said his good-byes and professionally closed out the set. CX's disgust for the audience was still quite apparant when he came out to perfom music for Saul Williams' set, Saul having to ask him at one point to get up from the space he was lying down.
Though DC is a punk rock metropolis for some and hip hop has begin to surface as one of the top musical sounds of the city, it was clear at this show that this DC crowd was probably majority composed of fans of Saul Williams and not necessarily fans of the entire afropunk movement. While the audience very clearly did not enjoy Krak Attack as a whole, the audience was generally dull overall, not impressed at all by the stage theatrics of hanging from rafters and stage diving which are some of the best perks of an authentic punk show.
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