2007 Peace Festival @ Civic Hall Plaza
August 6th, 2007 - by Eddie
Slick Rick tells Boston to “Lick my Balls” during the 2007 Peace Festival
Old school was in the house at the Peace Festival with local Boston hip-hop groups like Omega Red and 3 Foot Stripes spitting rhymes in the middle of Civic Hall Plaza this past weekend with headliners De La Soul and Slick Rick. Yes, the guy who was arrested for attempted murder was at the peace festival.
But all that’s behind “The Ruler” and the only fighting he instigated at the festival was between the new school and the old school. Rick had the DJ play the best of the new school, which translated to dropping DJUnk’s “Walk it out” (really? that’s the best? No wonder no one’s buying hip-hop anymore). This was met immediately by a symphony of boos and a thumbs down from everyone. If this were Roman times, DJ Unk would have been beheaded and his carcass left for the poor to munch on.
De La warmed up the crowd with “Me Myself and I,” “Ghetto Thang,” and “Potholes in my Lawn.” Then the DJ warmed the crowd up even more by playing cuts from old-school classics. He had the entire crowd spitting every lyric to Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend.” It was amazing. Yea, you had to be there.
Rick came out to a screaming crowd and dropped classics like “”La Di Da Di,” “Teenage Love,” and “Children’s Story.” He also threw out the advice that “Marriage is good y’all! Remember, it takes two to make a thing go right! Not three! Two! PEACE!”
Slick Rick taught me about hip-hop when I was a kid. Now, years later, he’s teaching me about life…and the fact that you’re never too old to wear an obscene amount of gold around your neck. Much love.
