 Props to Gang Starr and Dilated Peoples for their recent performance with Rage Against The Machine. Friday night Dilated opened for Rage at a sold out Oakland Coliseum. According to Beni B of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition. It took some time for the group to get used to going from small night club with a couple of hundred people to a cavernous venue with 15 thousand people.. However,the Rage crowd showed both groups much love. During Gang Starr's set DJ Premier had to watch flying debris including a shoe that was tossed at his turntables. When I first heard about it I was left with the impression that people didn't like Premier's scratching abilities or music selection. . Quite the contrary, people loved him.. Shoes and other clothing were being tossed after they were taking off of individuals who were being body surfed through the crowd. It was just mere coincident that Premier got shoes tossed at him during both the Oakland and Sacramento shows. Well at least it wasn't a smelly sock.. or a pair of stained drawers. As for Gang Starr, after the Rage Against Machine Tour, they will be heading back into the studio to work on another album which should drop by June of 2000. Premier and Quest Love of the Roots are scheduled to do production. The new 'Jazzmatazz Volume 3' album should be dropping real soon. Herbie Hancock and D'Angelo are among the many guests expected to appear on the album.
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