Blackalicious at Turf Club

From Oakland/sacramento, California

First Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar

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From last.fm:

Gift of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in Sacramento, California and formed the group in early 1992. They released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on Solesides Records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the duo, as well as other friends of theirs they had met at University of California - Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented the duo from immediately capitalizing on their fame. Read more on Last.fm

From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Only Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar

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Lushlife is one of a new breed of MCs. Lush's diversity lies within some 20 years of musical education - he spent 13 of them in classical piano training, along with a 7 year course in Jazz kit drumming, he has arranged music for Jazz combos and performed on street-corners and at Manhattan's prestigious Steinway Hall. Feeling disillusioned after a year of studying music Lush decided to go back to the reason he first started playing music: hip-hop. Read more on Last.fm