Lessons from The Teacher
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Brandon & I went to see KRS-One at the Anaheim House of Blues. It was a little weird seeing him in, basically, Disneyland. However it seems they have a fairly good stream of hip-hop artists, as Wyclef, Method Man and Jedi Mind Tricks are all appearing in the next month or so. Not bad.
The show itself was outstanding. Big thumbs up for KRS-ONE live. I wished some of his best-of songs had been longer, as typically only did a few verses, hoping from song to song. He’s known as the teacher, having self-educated himself at public libraries while homeless on the streets of the New York, and mixed in various rhyming philosophical dialogue.
Hands down, best part of the show came during Higher Level. As the song starts, he tells the crowd to hang on a minute & then disappears from the stage. A fair bit of time goes by time before realizing he’s come out around & is working his way through the crowd to the center where he continued to rap for another 20 minutes or so. At one point, he moved within a few feet of the area back by us.


Not sure who’s hand that is, but could have been anyone as the crowd was going nuts around (as well as whipping out cell phones for pics). Hopefully he’ll be back in LA soon.
