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North Coast Music Festival
Nas And Damian "Junior Gong" Marley and The Disco Biscuits and Gemini Club and Lupe Fiasco and Green Velvet and Flying Lotus and Mayer Hawthorne and Claude VonStroke and Holy Ghost and Benny Benassi and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Maps & Atlases and Phantogram and DJ Skeet Skeet and Loyal Divide and The Coop and Gabe Real and DJ Papa G and Stephen Paul Smoker and DJ Trew and The Right Now and Mario Florek and Bobby De Maria and Tsunami and DJ Lips and D.E.E.
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Sun Sep 5
1 pm
North Coast Music Festival at Union Park
Hip-hop stalwart Nas guested on reggae scion Damian Marley’s excellent 2005 crossover single, “Road To Zion," and the musical simpatico of the two proved undeniable. It’s a perfect complement of both styles, and it established a working relationship between Marley and Nas that, years later, has bloomed into Distant Relatives, an ambitious Afrocentric manifesto that finds a happy balance between Nas’ Queensbridge boom-bap and Marley’s rastafied reggae stylings. A 2005 guest spot on Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky” gave Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco the chance to release his tangled, thematically complex albums Food And Liquor and The Cool on a major label. Unfortunately, Fiasco’s been battling Atlantic Records ever since over a follow-up, Lasers. Expect to hear a little of that lost album here alongside the recently self-released single "Go To Sleep."
Union Park 1501 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL
Hip-hop stalwart Nas guested on reggae scion Damian Marley’s excellent 2005 crossover single, “Road To Zion," and the musical simpatico of the two proved undeniable. It’s a perfect complement of both styles, and it established a working relationship between Marley and Nas that, years later, has bloomed into Distant Relatives, an ambitious Afrocentric manifesto that finds a happy balance between Nas’ Queensbridge boom-bap and Marley’s rastafied reggae stylings. A 2005 guest spot on Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky” gave Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco the chance to release his tangled, thematically complex albums Food And Liquor and The Cool on a major label. Unfortunately, Fiasco’s been battling Atlantic Records ever since over a follow-up, Lasers. Expect to hear a little of that lost album here alongside the recently self-released single "Go To Sleep."
Updated 08/26/2010
