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Dilated Peoples
Touring Australia for the First Time!
One of global hip hop’s most enduring and ground breaking cultural forces, Hip Hop pioneers Dilated Peoples are set to touch down on Australian soil for the very first time.
As hip-hop culture (DJing, MCing, b-boying, graffiti art and beatboxing) evolved in the late 1970s and early 1980s, two things were hallmarks of the movement: DJing and lyrical excellence. In the last several years, few rap group’s have done more to champion those elements than Dilated Peoples. The Los Angeles based trio of Rakaa, Evidence and DJ Babu inject their music with humour, insight and social commentary, and DJ Babu's cuts add an additional layer of excitement and complexity to the group's material.
Upon signing to Capitol Records, Dilated Peoples built upon their already burgeoning momentum with a swag of stellar releases / tracks, including the meditative ‘Worst Comes To Worst’ from 2001's Expansion Team and the inspirational ‘This Way’ from 2004's Neighborhood Watch to name but a few. Cognizant that their music should stand the test of time as individual songs as well as when put together for an album, Dilated Peoples returned to their roots in 2006 to make 20/20, their most focused album to date.
Indeed, Capitol Records signed Dilated Peoples in part because of their live show, which has been widely lauded as one of the best in hip-hop. After the success of the 1997 single ‘Third Degree’ b/w ‘Confidence’ and ‘Global Dynamics’ and the addition of DJ Babu to the fold a year later, Dilated Peoples became a fixture on the US tour circuit. Their shows, typified by brilliant tag-team rhyming between Rakaa and Evidence and turntable supremacy from DJ Babu, demonstrated that hip-hop shows can be entertaining and prominently feature a DJ.
Says Rakaa: “We’re one of the groups responsible for helping correct one of the most serious rap wrongs, which is the DJ being regulated to a stage prop. We make sure that Babu is up there with us and gets the equal shine because the DJ is the backbone of the culture and he’s the backbone of our group, too.”
Check out Dilated Peoples as they take Australia by storm in 2010:
Appearing with Total TOTAL ECLIPSE
NIKKITA & CLASS A Feat. DJ BOGUES
BRIGGS
Friday January 8 – The Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne
Tix: www.theespy.oztix.com.au