It's been an incredible couple of days! We were fortunate enough to be contacted at the last minute by Othello of the infamous Lightheaded crew, who asked us to rock a show with him in Waikiki. Needless to say, we were honored to be in the same room as this dude---homie has been hard at work spreading the truth with his music, and he honestly was one of the coolest cats I've had the pleasure of meeting up with. Big ups to Temper T for hooking up this connection....look for a future Temper T/Othello track in the future?!
There was a lot of drama behind the scenes of this performance---cancellations, moving venues, and a lot more! However, the homie Kent was able to pull things together to make it happen. Hopefully the next time, we can get Othello and crew out here for more shows! The audience at the Banana Patch Lounge was not a good reflection of the Hawaii scene....but everyone made it work!
We were stoked to see Keoki (Siq Records) supporting the show, and I just had to snap this photo. Cool Hawaiians making music.......Wade and I were talking about how Keok's has been down since day one....always positive, always supportive, and a super talented brother..
Lightsleepers meets Lightheaded! Props to In4mation for Othello's dope shirt...Fybes, we missed you bro! Before we called it a night, Wade was able to get Othello out for a youth event on Friday night.....
House Party!!?! Othello was kind enough to come out to the Leeward side to rock a small set for the youth of Grace Bible Church.....he absolutely killed it. High energy, incredible lyrics, and a positive message to back it all up. The kids were going nuts! I just wish they could comprehend the degree of freshness they got to see up front and personal....for a lot of them, this was their first exposure to Othello's music......but, for others......
...like Stutterin Stan, Memoirs, Kavet the Catalyst, Observ and Lofa, this was a chance to see Othello live and direct....Memoirs even blessed the kids with a short tutorial on the art of the scratch..dope stuff!
Memoirs doing his thing....he even dropped a freestyle later on in the evening.....too funny man..
Othello rocking the crowd. Dude was a pleasure to meet, and hopefully we'll get to do more shows with him in the future! Respect out to Temper T for forging this newfound friendship, and thanks to everyone who pulled together to make it all happen!
It's been an incredible couple of days! We were fortunate enough to be contacted at the last minute by Othello of the infamous Lightheaded crew, who asked us to rock a show with him in Waikiki. Needless to say, we were honored to be in the same room as this dude---homie has been hard at work spreading the truth with his music, and he honestly was one of the coolest cats I've had the pleasure of meeting up with. Big ups to Temper T for hooking up this connection....look for a future Temper T/Othello track in the future?!
One of my personal highlights of the night was watching these dudes perform--Brainstorming Weather are some of the dopest emcees in Hawaii--hailing all the way from the sleepy town of Hilo....they absolutely killed it. Everybody Knows (Fat Soul) is shown here rocking a verse with them...
We had a tough act to follow going on right after the Hilo boys, but we still had a fun time rockin the crowd...doing shows without Temper T is never an easy thing, and hopefully we can get him out here for some Hawaii shows soon! You were missed brother!!
Once again, DJ Memoirs was there as our sound provider, absolutely killing it on the Serato...as always, he's a ham for the cam...kind of sucks that he wasn't able to be on stage with us (Lotus has their tables off to the side) but he killed it anyways!
Last but not least, fellow Earth Mover member, DJ Kid Koak was there as well...all I gotta say is, his hair gets more and more nuts everytime I see him! Koak was there supporting the art homies of GroundUp...
