Author Topic: M.O.P. concert review (Read 183 times)

Jome · « **on:** August 27, 2004, 08:57:02 PM »

Location: Club Maxime, Bergen (Norway)
Att: 500-700 people, hard to say, but fully packed.
Performers: LiL Fame, Billy Danze, Fox, Laze E Laze

The show started off with Laze (Their manager/producer/DJ/hypeman) hyping up the crowd, before he set off Cold As Ice.
This really got the crowd moving, and in came Danze & Fame, clownwalking with a bottle of booze.
After Cold as Ice, they went straight into some oldies, such as How about some hardcore, World Famous, Rugged Neva Smooth, and a little Downtown Swinga, before getting into some newer joints like Ante Up, 4 Alarm Blaze, Warriorz, Home Sweet Home, etc.

I found it strange that Danze was not really rapping at all, only Fame did his verses..
I think Danze maybe did 2 or 3 verses in all, while Fame did 10-15.
Fox also came on, and she was hyped up to do a freestyle on "Locked Up" beat, but it looked like she choked, so Fame told Laze to "Cut that shit off" and they went into a solo track from Fox, where Fame had to help Fox on her first verse.
It was later explained that her (Fox) voice was gone, after 6 months of constant touring, maybe Danze suffered from the same.. ?
Fame, Danze, Laze, and Norwegian producer Tommy Tee handled the turntables, and Fox was more or less the hypewoman, she only did 1 track, and Laze jumping back and forth was also kinda funny..

There was a small break, they came back on doing some Marxmen cinema tracks, (shouted out Scarface when they used his beat), and Ground Zero, Here 2day gone 2tomorrow, shouted out GangStarr/Primo, and went into some other tracks.. they left the stage to the instrumental of "I gotta go", but the crowd wanted more and started shouting "M - O - P !!" over and over, and they came back out and performed "Put it in the air" and "U don't know remix", these 2 tracks made the crowd go totally bananas, and Fame started throwing water at everybody. Fame put up the ROC-sign while shouting out Mr. S. Carter.
"Aight, that's it, PEACE y'all" shouted Fame, before leaving the stage with some handpicked groupies/dancers, and lights got shut down.
But for the second time, the crowd started yelling "M - O - P!!", and when the ANTE UP beat started and M.O.P. came back on, the whole place near exploded.

That was the climax of the concert, and a perfect finish.

After the concert we snuck back to the backstage-exit through a connection, and got to talk to Fox, and Norwegian DJ and producer Tommy Tee.
They all stood out there in the rain smoking blunts, and we talked about this and that.
Fox said that she have a album coming out next year, with production from Tommy Tee, DR Period, DJ Premier, Lil Fame, and more.
Fox was funny as hell, and told stories about sneaking weed through customs.
When asked about what Fame and Danze was up to, she said "Probably in the back with some bitches!"

Tommy Tee confirmed that he produced a track called "Muddy Waters" on the new M.O.P. album, but no word about a release date.
Too bad Fame & Danze didn't come out to smoke, but it was raining like fuck so we didn't hold out for more than 20 minutes.

W-Side · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2004, 02:56:33 AM »

you lucky mothafucka

sounds dope as fuck.. you shoulda taken pics of em pickin their bitchez.. did they just point at some standing in the crowd or what ? LoL

any pics at all ?

Throwback · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2004, 03:01:00 AM »

sounds fuckin dope man. lucky motherfucker...

Leggy Hendrix · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2004, 04:21:12 AM »

sounds like a cool show...

On The Edge of Insanity · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2004, 04:37:58 AM »

Sounds like some dope shit Jome, I dunno why they aren't making a UK appearance considering they are in Europe right now.

CRAFTY · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2004, 05:41:02 AM »

Sounds cool...thanks for the review.

Jome · « **Reply #6 on:** August 28, 2004, 06:58:55 PM »

Quote from: Like A Black Cat on August 28, 2004, 02:56:33 AM

sounds dope as fuck.. you shoulda taken pics of em pickin their bitchez.. did they just point at some standing in the crowd or what ? LoL

They basically looked through the first 4-5 rows, they picked 3 girls and said "we have free T-shirts backstage", lol..
1 of the girls they picked was black, with a big boooty..

They danced around a little on stage, went backstage, (15 minutes to put on a T-shirt.. ??) lol
Came back onstage and danced, and 1 of them disappeared backstage again.
1 drunk bitch rushed the stage and grabbed a mic and started "rapping" while rubbing her tits, before LiL Fame grabbed her with 1 arm and basically threw her offstage to some guards, while Laze pointed to the girl and shouted "When I say SHUT THE FUCK UP" you say it too (at the crowd), that bitch got the crowd against her..

Quote from: Waitin For The DJ on August 28, 2004, 04:37:58 AM

Sounds like some dope shit Jome, I dunno why they aren't making a UK appearance considering they are in Europe right now.

For some reason they only went to Bergen, but not to Oslo, even though Oslo is 4 times bigger..

They're touring with Pharoahe though, and Pharoahe's been to Bergen 3 times in the last 6 months, maybe Pharoahe told them that Bergen 0wns.

W-Side · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2004, 10:11:22 AM »

Quote from: Jome on August 28, 2004, 06:58:55 PM

Quote from: Like A Black Cat on August 28, 2004, 02:56:33 AM
sounds dope as fuck.. you shoulda taken pics of em pickin their bitchez.. did they just point at some standing in the crowd or what ? LoL

They basically looked through the first 4-5 rows, they picked 3 girls and said "we have free T-shirts backstage", lol..
1 of the girls they picked was black, with a big boooty..

They danced around a little on stage, went backstage, (15 minutes to put on a T-shirt.. ??) lol
Came back onstage and danced, and 1 of them disappeared backstage again.
1 drunk bitch rushed the stage and grabbed a mic and started "rapping" while rubbing her tits, before LiL Fame grabbed her with 1 arm and basically threw her offstage to some guards, while Laze pointed to the girl and shouted "When I say SHUT THE FUCK UP" you say it too (at the crowd), that bitch got the crowd against her..

LMAO