I’ve been slacking on the blogging recently so I’m going to take a look back at some of the big events from the year in which the world of music really opened up for me.
First up I am going to go back to an awesome event back in the summer called ‘Titulos de la Calle’.
The night before I was drinking Micheladas with my mate Patrick and I was awoken on Saturday morning (feeling a little worse for wear) by the sounds of Hip-Hop wafting in through the window from the venue next door. I got up to investigate (i.e. looked out of my bedroom window) and I saw a few people milling around and a little sound-checking going on so I called in on my way to my guitar class.
I met the organizers and discovered that it was an all-day event celebrating the four corners of Hip-Hop – MCing, Djing, Breaking and Graffiti. I was offered a spot in the MC battles but I explained that no one would understand me and I wouldn’t understand anything being said to me anyway. I explained that I was an MC from England and I showed them my Community Spirit and I managed to blag myself a 20 minute set later in the afternoon. I was also pretty pleased that I had done all this in Spanish!
When I got back there later on the place was packed with writers, breakers, skaters, MCs, & DJs with every available surface getting graf’d up and the tunes spinning.
Hip-Hop culture is still kinda young here in San Luis but the graf scene especially is really strong. My man Scratch asked if I was ready right away and I gave my disc to the DJ and hit the stage. It’s a strange thing rapping for people who don’t understand a word, no matter how dope the lyrics might be nobody is moved by them whatsoever so you have to make sure that the flow and the energy is right up there. It went off pretty well, I did win over the crowd as I showed and proved, it felt good to throw out some CDs and the people showed their appreciation.
Some heads came up to me as I left the stage and asked about my album and then I went walking around and shopping it to the people in the crowd. I got a lot of good feedback and met a few good connects from local crews. We exchanged CDs and kicked some rhymes before watching the battles. Man, these kids went loco for the battles, I didn’t get any pics or footage myself but I dug this up from youtube:
I’ve got my own photography project in the works called Street Paint of San Luis but for now here is a little taster of the scene here:
Later on I went back to my building and watched from my roof with a blunt and a brew feeling pretty contented. This was one of my performing adventures this year and I’ll be back with more before the year is out.
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