![]() ![]() The familiar sounds of the samples of Aretha Franklin’s ‘One Step Ahead’ sent the crowd into the same ecstatic state that the opening track did. As the set began to come to a close, he dropped another crowd favourite ‘Ms Fat Booty’. ![]() While it was clear that a proportion of the crowd weren’t here for this, the majority listened fixatedly. The second talking about forgiveness before dropping into some new material, which he proclaimed “some people don’t understand” before continuing to shatter more petals and navigating the stage vibrantly. The first addressing the issues of gun violence before smoothly transitioning into a cover of C.R.E.A.M.’s ‘El Michels Affair’. The quirks of the performance did not end there, with Yasiin taking breaks between tracks to perform poetry interludes to a mostly silent attentive crowd. While this probably was not what the audience were expecting from a Mos Def gig the entire performance was extremely animated and captivating. Yasiin then proceeded to spin around, what must have been at least 30 times on the spot coming out seemingly unphased to continue his interpretive dancing around the stage before freestyling over the end of the song. As the beat ran out Yasiin started covering the stage in rose petals as he continued to prance around, an incredible start to what went on to be an incredible gig.Īfter introducing himself properly and a few more tracks from The Ecstatic and Black on Both Sides he cut the music for a second to play the Portuguese record ‘Tudo Que Você Podia Ser’ by Milton Nascimento telling the audience to “take this moment to just vibe”. The song came to a close with the crowd shouting “what it is” back at Yasiin every time he said “you, know, they know”. The whole time Yasiin danced around the stage with effortless confidence cutting extravagant shapes in an unquestionably cool fashion, everyone’s eyes were stuck on him the entire time. After the hook Yasiin got the crowd to recreate this historic beat while he steadily tapped the mic before letting Slick Rick’s verse play on the vinyl. Balasubrahmanyam and Lata Mangeshkar with wavering synth tones to create a beat that is renowned as one of his best. Madlib layers pitched down samples of Indian heavyweight’s S. Addressing the socio-political implications of the American military occupation of Iraq at the start of the 21st century on top of the perfect Madlib beat. The performance lived up to the energetic yet melancholic nature of the song. Not wasting any time, he opened the set by shouting ‘Bristol What’s Up?’ while the beat dropped for a fan favourite, Auditorium. ‘O Trem Azul’ by Lô Borges begun playing and moments later Yasiin slowly crosses the stage where he places his bag down and begins to spray paint ‘oyster’ across a white sheet draped in front of the decks. With the last support act ‘Sip the Juice DJ’s’ decks being rolled off the stage at 21:30, the crowd were well aware what was about to happen. Yasiin Bey #bristol #yasiinbey #mosdef #live #o2academybristol #academymusicgroup #academyevents #o2music #o2uk Photography Martin Thompson post shared by O2 Academy Bristol on at 9:08am PDT ![]()
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