We had such a good time with Fort Knox Recordings last month at U Street Music Hall that we decided to do it all over again, and this time we’re joined by Capitol Hemp to present… THE BIG BOOM. Sunday, July 3rd, cause we like to spend every holiday weekend throwing back some dranks and throwing down some beats with our Fort Knox brethren. Celebrate your freedom with us!
The Big Boom artists will be taking over TVD all next week. We’ll be featuring all of them, and of course we’re going to share in the fun by giving away some tix and some wax.
The Big Boom
Sunday, July 3rd
9pm – 3am
U Street Music Hall
$10.00
Tickets available through Ticketfly
Ages 18+
Featuring:
DJ Nu-Mark
Fort Knox Five
Asheru & Mustafa Akbar
See-I
Rex Riddem of Nappy Riddem
The legendary DJ Nu-Mark is making a rare appearance at this show! This world-famous producer and turntablist is best-known as one of the members of Jurassic 5, and since their breakup, has remixed songs for Nas and Damian Marley, created songs for The Lonely Island, and released his own debut solo album Broken Sunlight. He’s also continued innovating by DJing with children’s toys. For real. And it’s incredible.
The other Big Boom artists are all no strangers to TVD because they are all dangerously high-caliber DC superstars. This is, after all, The Big Boom.
Fort Knox Five is practically TVD family. We’ve “America fuck yeahed” with FK5 at Big Booms past, got skool’d by Bambaataa with them back in January, and most recently, blew out Memorial Day Weekend with three of their members, otherwise known as Thunderball. “Their signature ‘Fort Knox Sound’ seamlessly interweaves live instrumentation with funky electronic breakbeats.”
Besides being a hip hop artist and pioneering educator, did you know that Asheru also wrote the opening and closing theme songs to The Boondocks? He and Mustafa Akbar will be lending some vocals to Fort Knox Five’s performance on July 3rd.
The funk and soul reggae collective See-I (featuring five members of some band named Thievery Corporation) releases their debut self-titled LP on Tuesday! They brought down the mf’ing house at our last UHall event, and they have a new video for “Soul Hit Man.”
Rex Riddem is one-third of the ragga-soul electro-funk supergroup Nappy Riddem, with the aforementioned Mustafa Akbar and Thievery Corporation bassist Ashish “Hash” Vyas. Check out Rex Riddem getting an entire 9:30 Club of kids bouncing last year.
There aren’t going to be any BOOMS on July 4th that will compare to THE BIG BOOM on the 3rd. See you there!
