Some more exclusives from this past summer’s Virgin Mobile Festival. Listen to Kanye debut NEW, never heard before verses at the end of “All Falls Down”. If thats not enough, we’re also serving up an incredible live version of “Stronger” that honestly blows the studio version out of the water. The breakdown with his band wailing on the timpani and taiko drums and Man-Man doing his thing on the vocoder is incredible. (For what its worth, these songs are autotune free).
This is a classic from Pharoahe Monche’s show at the Jazz Cafe back in ‘07. Maceo, of De La Soul, happened to be in London and low and behold, an impromptu rendition of Stakes Is High ensued. The crowd went ape shit, the band killed the Dilla beat and Pharoahe was spittin crack as usual. Don’t miss this one.
In celebration of one of the most historic days of the United States as we welcome in Barack Obama as President, we bring you Talib Kweli performing “Africa Dream” live from back in 2002.
Lupe Fiasco puts on what is hands down one of the best live shows in hip-hop. Period. He puts so much energy into his show and a lot of other artists should take note of his stage presence. He tours with the west coast band 1500 Or Nothin and at this show was joined by Matthew Santos. Here are two songs live from his Halloween show at the House of Blues in his hometown from ‘07. He performs “Superstar” and his cover of The Gorillaz’ Feel Good Inc., “I Dont Feel So Good”. Be on the lookout for the first Lupe Fiasco live DVD, scheduled for release in late March.
Courtesy of the other site I run, TheRootsLive.com, we proudly present an amazing freestyle from Black Thought and Malik B. from the oldest show recorded of The Roots way back in ‘94. This freestyle is completely off the dome and both tear it up with the band. Be sure to download this entire concert here, as well as nearly 60 other full length concerts recordings and live video of The Legendary, free to download over at TheRootslive.com.
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