IKDK loves hip hop but we rarely get out to the shows. Friday night was jammed packed at the Sound Academy to see Wu Tang alumni Ghostface Killah perform for the first time in Toronto in about 15 years (visa issues). Ghostface must love Canada and is making up for this lost time by touring what seems like every city in Canada including stops in Montreal, Ottawa, Peterborough, Oshawa, Barrie??, Winnipeg, Saskatachewan, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, and Victoria. The Wu-Tang must love Canada as fellow band member Raekwon has recently set up a record label in Canada based out of Toronto called Ice H20.
Canadian Hip Hop guy Peter Jackson opened up the show with a 15 minute set. Wondering if this is a standard for hip hop shows? It was more like a commercial than an actual set.
A second band performed before Ghostface hit the stage but can't for the life remember the name of the band even though there 2nd song of a two song set was basically them chanting their band name. This was more like an infomercial. (IKDK: Shing Shing Regime, a Canadian band)
Ghostface hit the stage at about 11:30 and played to about 1:15. A spirited set that included alot of guest cameos by the likes of Sheek Louch, Killah Priest and Joe and Jimmy. Joe and Jimmy? Yeah, the two crowd members who were invited to come on stage to sing some of the verses of a classic WU-Tang Clan joint. Ghostface turned up the pressure on the volunteers by asking the audience to boo them if they didn't come through. The volunteers sizzled and the crowd went crazy. Judging by the number of people singing along all night I might have been the only person in the crowd who is not at the level of master Wu Fan. Obviously not a big enough fan to meet Ghostface for an autograph and picture at the end of the show which were available if you bought merchandise which was heavily pushed at the end of the show.
Here is what the crowd said:
@dajaunm: Down at the sound academy guest listed for the ghostface show
@SlavaP: This is whitest crowd I've seen since the Hanson concert (@ Sound Academy for Ghostface Killah w/ 2 others) (IKDK:
@TinyshaT.: Ghostface Killahhhhh
@carliroye: At the Sound Academy, Ghostface Killah is here. Fuck!!!!!!!!
@IKvsDK: At ghostface killah : don't see @panicmanual #rewind
@_STATiS_: whoevers at the ghostface show, i hate every single one of you tonight (IKDK: Yes, hate us)
@Drew_Phenson: At the GHOSTFACE show now.. We gon kill it like always #thecomeupshow #ShotByDrew
@infini_dee247: Bring on Ghostface already! I'm gettin old fo dis shit... (IKDK: I agree)
@Suriega: ghostface..come out!! some guy sucking a lolipop front row , the fucks going on here
@radiorilla: GHOSTFACE SHOWWWWWWWWWWWW
@annkica: Just two white chicks at a ghostface killah show right meow
@Tricky_Lake: Going to Ghostface to pick up guys. BRB
@ear2ear: I will say is, I definitely underestimated the Ghostface love in Toronto.
@TheUnionEast: Ghostface Killah @soundacademy is officially sold out!
@ImScottRamirez: A quarter of the city is at the Ghostface show at Sound Academy
@RoyaleG: Ghostface just runnin' through joints.
@ShesSoRaw: Holayyy fuck I love the way he bounces while he raps and pulls his toque over his eye #Ghostface
@DaniKBrown: Currently at the Ghostface Killah show. AM I HIGH?!?!?!
@GrandAnalog: Ghostface Killah in Toronto. Packed to the fish in here. Entire joint is smoked out. Tony just blazed thru 6 tracks in 3 mins. All burners.
@IKvsDK: Killah priest nice! #ghostface @rebharath
@NaphtaliOnline: OH snap! Killa Priest is all up on this shit @ the Ghostface concert!!!!!!! #TORONTO http://lockerz.com/s/161566893
@danDlionRoars: #Ghostface rocking the mic! Taking it back Wu Tang style #hiphop4ever
@jordanastein: Strobe lights, weed smoke. #ghostface
@PlatoPutas: Ghostface doing classic Wu cuts reminds me of going to HMV's bassment every Tuesday for the latest Wu member album. #HowOldAmI!
@NaphtaliOnline: Lighters in the air @ The Ghostface Concert!!!! @iluvlola http://lockerz.com/s/161573481
@vatKEEZY: Ghostface ending it off properly at Sound Academy! Toronto crowds still suck tho
@juliushaag: Everyone who's leaving ghostface early to jump a cab is missing some classics, and probably shouldn't have come at all.
@SladeWilson0021: Ghostface concert was decent... But shorter than I expected.
@PrymeTymeBeats: Ghostface just ripped it the fuck up! Whata live concert, brought out some absolute classics!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h4eHELW65M&ob=av2e
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