I recently came across an article by Bill Bradley in the Northern Life, concerning the state of hip-hop in Sudbury. Granted, he is not the person who should be writing such an article, it was still nice to see so0mebody cover the topic. Mr. Bradley should have attended the concert at Shaughnessy’s pub on Saturday night, which was not just M.O. and Kold Knowledge, as he falsely suggested in his article, but was actually headlined by Dead Celebrity Status (missing the opening act is a big ‘oops’ for him I would imagine). The concert was very good. Dead Celebrity Status rocked the venue without a doubt, although the crowd came off as passive and hostile at best, in my opinion. My friends and myself did our best to ignore the idiots and just enjoy ourselves, which was an effective strategy for most of the night. There were several altercations as the event came to a close, and there were also some minor altercations on the dance floor in front of the stage during the performance. It’s a shame that some members of our hip-hop community feel the need to act like complete deadbeats (and maybe that’s what they actually are, which would make acting unrequired), because it would be nice to see the hip-hop community here develop with a sense of unity, instead of the mean-mugging that many of these ‘screw-faces’ (to quote a term I’ve heard DCS’ Yas Talaat use several times) insist on engaging in at these rap-shows. Enjoy yourself, enjoy the music. Stop being such haters towards other people. Here’s that Northern Life article if anyone wants to read it: http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2009/jul/hiphop240709.aspx