Holdin' Down The Culture
Seems like the other side of the Atlantic is on the verge of being graced with a tour featuring some of the best emcees ever to grace the microphone. The Gods Of Rap II tour, featuring Nas, DMX, The Lox And Gang Starr, will hit the the UK for three dates. Just Blaze will host the events. London, Birmingham, and Manchester are the U.K. cities slated to see all of the acts live.
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DJ Premier will leverage modern technology to personify the spirit of the late GURU. Also, it’s important to notice that GURU’s son, Keith Casim “K.C.” Elam, has been working with (and being mentored by) Preemo. Premier explained to Music Week,
“I have loads and loads and loads of live performances of pretty much our whole catalogue in different cities and the audio from his voice. With technology now, there’s different devices to extract the background music of my turntables and get his voice and footage to move when I make a move on the computer. I could actually have him perform and really be saying the lines and he’ll have different clothes on from the different places that we performed.”
“I know how to set it up. I don’t want it to be like ‘He’s wearing the same thing for the whole show’ – this is like 15/20 different shows where he would look different based on the song and best performance of his voice. It’s definitely doable. I plan on doing it, I’ve just got to make sure it is flawless. That’s what we’re working on right now. I do it anyway with my band when we do the tribute section, so you would literally see him on a big, giant screen really saying those lines, it’s not just footage of him looking like he’s doing it. I think we could pull it off.”
Many of us might wonder why the U.K. might be graced with such a tour but not the U.S. The answer is simple: a promoter in the U.K deemed there is enough demand from fans for such a tour to take place in all the cities involved. Promoters must guarantee money to the artists in order for the show to take place. If a promoter in the U.S (or anywhere else for that matter) and made the right offer a tour could be scheduled in the United States also but nobody will promote an event if they feel the money to be made is not worth their while.
Catch a promotional video for the event below.
Source: www.musicweek.com
