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Raekwon
Also Playing: Capone and Noreaga and Queen YoNasDa
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Tue Dec 15
7 pm
Raekwon, Capone, Noreaga, and Queen YoNasDa at 9:30 Club
Hip-hop had more or less written Raekwon off when he was unceremoniously dropped from Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label while still at work on a sequel to Only Built For 4 Cuban Linx..., arguably the greatest Wu-Tang solo album of all time. Some folks doubted Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. 2 would ever be released; as release dates kept getting pushed back, the album threatened to become the Chinese Democracy of hip-hop. But Raekwon shocked everyone in late 2009 by releasing a follow-up worthy of the original, a dense, overstuffed opus rich with grimy atmosphere and novelistic detail.
9:30 Club 815 V St. NW, Washington D.C., DC
Hip-hop had more or less written Raekwon off when he was unceremoniously dropped from Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label while still at work on a sequel to Only Built For 4 Cuban Linx..., arguably the greatest Wu-Tang solo album of all time. Some folks doubted Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. 2 would ever be released; as release dates kept getting pushed back, the album threatened to become the Chinese Democracy of hip-hop. But Raekwon shocked everyone in late 2009 by releasing a follow-up worthy of the original, a dense, overstuffed opus rich with grimy atmosphere and novelistic detail.
Updated 12/03/2009
