Dear Readers,
So I went to my brother’s performance at the Asian Hiphop Festival, October 11th at Muang Thong Thani. He is Ghost Style, from 24 Herbs.
Although I can dance to hiphop (Hiphop and MTV dance classes are amazing!!) I’m not a hip hop listener. My music playlist is named “destressing” – filled with alot of easy listening, jazzy, soft rock and golden oldies songs. So you can imagine my reaction going to a hiphop concert.
Doug got us VIP tickets! So we were able to see him up close and personal. But I have to say, that the crowd wasn’t very hyper, just standing there and watching, so that when 24Herbs came up, I ran to the center of the crowd and tried my very best to get people like you know “Raise your hands!” Needless to say I looked as if I just overdosed on Speed.
But, Doug did REALLY WELL! It was my first time seeing him perform live, and after they performed the party picked up alot! The first group (I think they were Japanese and Korean) were mostly showing off their dance moves. Booooooooooorrrrrrrrinnng
24 Herbs sang their hit “Respect dou PK” Which means – respect until you PK (pok gai. drop dead on while walking on the street) – meaning Respect alot. or something of that sort. All 3 of us (Greg Jay and I ) introduced ourselves to Doug’s 5 other band mates, and I have to say that underneath their excessive cursing and rough voices, they are EXTREMELY NICE and GENUINE people! And very guai (kwai?) (polite), haha I bet this ruins their bad boy image, but I have to tell the world, that they are so nice, smart, gentile and some are even shy too! No star-power disease and very down to earth. They also gave the crowd shirts, (threw it) and this guy behind me caught a shirt, was extremely happy and started to jump up and down shouting out “Ho!!!!!!!” When Bryan (forgot his stage name, KGB or something like that) said “When I say Hey you say Ho, HEEEEEEEEEEY “
24 Herbs did get a bit silly with the “When I say…” because they said the longest or like uncommon english phrases, and the thai audience looked like this : :! *blank stare*
haha
24 Herbs at the Asian Hip Hop Festival
Afterwards we saw a bunch of other performances, Jeab and I went in and out of the concert to sit and chat. We came back in and there was a taiwanese Band playing called MC Dog, and the guy on stage had the worse hair cut ever – school boy taiwanese style, and he was wearing a button down denim shirt. a sight for sore eyes. I saw him immediately, and told Greg, “Look at that guy’s hair, looks like Tim’s brother” and was surprised when we were talking to other people about Mc Dog’s performance, everybody commented on that fashion criminal! hahah funny stuff.
The big show by Thai Titanium came on, and I’m only accustomed to their famous songs. Their performance was 1/2 of their album. One of their songs consisted lyrics “We don’t give a F&@K” – sung on repeat by a white fat guy. It was one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. And people in the audience were like “YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” So the song went like this, white fat guy shouting: “We don’t give a F&@K , We don’t give a F&@K *bam bam* We don’t give a F&@K , We don’t give a F&@K We don’t give a F&@K , We don’t give a F&@K *bao bam*” For THREE MINUTES.
Then a poor thing came on stage – a person in an ape suit, to do the Ape walk – which was just a half -ass crunk version of the monkey. As my dearest friend Alvin would put it, “Bravo. Well done.”
Then, the final show was a performance from NAS. Nas who? Exactly my point.
No wait, the name Nas is really familiar, Greg told me that he was Jay-z’s revival, then lost out. He made us wait for 30+ minutes, he came out at 1230, and sang his classics, but he was getting all political too, like “We need a black president!!!” and trying to get the crowd to be all like, “YEAH!!”
We need a black president!
But ppl were just like, “…..” Then on stage, a beautiful singer came out, and she was so TALL! and sang “If I ruled the world, I’d free all my sons” *on repeat* and I was like, wow who is that Giant woman, and Greg told me that was Kelis!!! She’s his wife!
I have to admit, I didn’t appreciate the concert at all, I’m biased and only went to see Doug perform and also to give support. I wanted to leave earlier and asked Greg and Jay to join me (cuz was worried about driving home late), and I got back the coldest stare from both of them, “STace, its NAS”
Wah, NAS whatever – he has no respect for his audience, make us wait like freaking beggars sitting around, and doesn’t even try to connect with the audience, the US doesn’t need a black president, the US needs a capable president regardless of race. Obama supporters should say, that he should be elected because he is the better of the two candidates, that he can lead them out of all their current mess. That’s like me chanting, “America needs a white wrinkly old president!” (Im a McCain supporter) And unrelated to this post – Obama looks like he is going to win.
Anyways, I’m sure hiphop enthusiasts had an extremely good time.
Doug’s visiting until Thursday 
Stacy
