chify having a chat with kaos black!!

We played a sidewalk show as part of Make Music NY outside the Mocada Museum in Brooklyn.
Many thanks to Yume, the team at Mocada and all the good people who stopped to watch in cars, prams and on foot.

Kaos Black hooked up the footage!!

So we rocked our last gig outside on the steps/sidewalk of the MoCADA Museum Brooklyn. Its is the Museum of

What can I say....!!! It was a massive event. There were problems just cos of the rain, and the stage had to be rescheduled timewise, but I gotta shout out Mike (Yume) & Wes on how they handled the day and made it rock non stop.
Pharoah Monche, dead Pres, Primo, Styles P, Sheek,Black Thought, broke n English,The Clown Prince...
I never thought with this nutty kinda hip hop we kick that all those names would be mentioned in the same breath..

The backstage was worked nicely with live art going on, lots of cats in the press pens, lots of cameras, hip hop websites, other artists who just came down to support.

I met Black Thought and he was so cool it was crazy. The Roots set the bar for live instrumental hip hop right now.

There were some crazy acts that I wish I had caught their name - there was this 3 man band - one dude on decks, one dude on drums and one dude rocking 2 synths n they just ripped up different instrumentals. with the dj cutting up the acapellas on the decks and it will dope.

We rocked the 2nd stage and werent able to get the full band on, so Andrew had to take up dj duties and Chris became my hype man. It was so funny having Chris as a hype man, he was loving the "rapper mics" and getting his swang on.

Footage after the dots......

We played an instore launch for Atmos & Yume on Thursday night. Took Afrapunk east end stylee 2 blocks down from the Apollo and rocked this heavy trainer store. Its kinda like ?size and the Secret Wars cats were in attendance too.

It was sweaty as hell!!


Many thanks to carl chilsom check out his work here ,

he took lots of dope pcitures of us! I had to find a way to cover my weird neck allergy! It aint right, but its getting better.



It was a night out on Bleecker for us after the show! Munchies at Katz, too many drinks and was wicked seeing the boy deji abrahams. We stumbled into Le Possion and watched the Grand Puba & U-God concert.

Damn U-God is old and his hype man was kinda off-key, but it was still good seeing wu on stage again.

So here is a Wu God video cut for old times sake



video of the instore will be up soon enough, we just trailing that now. We gotta take our own camera man next time we out. Email c.vs in :)

Ok so thanks to Neel Dwala for pointing out that I got the last link wrong....hahahah
But here is the link for the articles I am writing for the socially conscious online magazine.

It is an account of my last trip to Las GiDi (LaGoS), So you click on the website, go to the magazine link, and chify will pop up.

Here is an excerpt of one the upcoming articles -

Fuel, Videos & a madman with a Hammer in his Hand.



I have been in Lagos for a couple of days now and think I am finally adjusting to the heat. The temperature is a healthy 32-36 most days and there are some times of day that you just never go outside in the blazing heat. Well if you can help it.
The weird thing as well about Lagos is that there is never a real opportunity for you to walk anywhere. I mean you can if you really have to or want to but there is no “just walking over to the shops” where I live and everything seems like a car trip. It is also seen as safer than just bopping about on road, and not just because of anything to do with getting robbed btu more about the mad little taxi scooters and general driving antics of most people on the roads.
So imagine my surprise when I saw more pedestrians than cars one day. There was a sea of cars all straining towards an already chained up petrol station with sun beaten occupants waiting to get served.
I had managed to get struck with the ‘petrol scarcity’ nightmare of Lagos. There seems to be a reoccurring theme with this trip and oil/gas/petrol, and in fact I think that Nigeria is one of those countries that is very apparent on how it makes it money. We as Nigerians know that our country runs and operates on oil, so when there is no fuel – Nobody move Nobody get ‘urt.


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We are getting ready for the massive event that will be Brookney Stomp!!

Hackney Meets Brooklyn with a host of dope artists doing that thang live n direct.

Here is the flyer for this lickle groover