Concert was a growing experience for audience members
Grayskul, Sean Price and Jedi Mind Tricks gave three distinct performances at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday night.
Grayskul relayed its music’s awareness and spirituality to a crowd branched like a seedling. Sean Price maintained hardheaded, macho lyrics to a crowd sprouting like a sapling. And Jedi Mind Tricks rapped to a crowd spreading its roots like a tree.
“Grayskul’s music has a positive message from a dark place,” said MC Recluse, echoing the band’s DJ.
The group recently did a benefit tour for the people of Darfur, which is one of those “dark” places.
However, Grayskul’s message was overshadowed by the mismatch of their beat and lyrics.
“I thought the DJ messed up,” said Rob Rothschild who lives in Fort Collins with a degree in film production from Full Sale, a school in Orlando, Fla. “Being a DJ myself, I notice those things.”
Rothschild wasn’t alone.
“They can’t hold a beat,” said Mike Sanchez, a junior English major.
Sean Price was next on stage. He rapped about being the manliest rapper out there. He touched upon many topics including love and drugs and sometimes being in love with drugs.
In one of his songs he said, “I love it when my bitch cook . I love my moms and her drug habit” and then he went on and said, “I love mushrooms.”
As Price urged the crowd to repeat his name, and in between said his own name multiple times in songs, a slide show of Price flickered on the wall behind the stage. The show was a sequence of pictures of Price promoting his new album, “Jesus Price Supastar.” In one of the photos Price was shown donning a priest’s collar.
In the middle of his segment, Price stopped for a moment of silence to honor the death of a friend’s sister, showing his sentimental side.
“I like Sean Price,” Sanchez said. “He’s the ‘brokest’ rapper I know, his moniker.”
Finally, at 11:40 p.m., Jedi Mind Tricks began its show. The crowd was jumping, waving hands and pumping fists to the enthusiastic performance.
“I’m really expanding my knowledge of hip-hop,” said Smashley Parker, a sophomore at Metropolitan State College majoring in physics and philosophy.
Though Parker is just stepping into to the world of hip-hop, she said she likes Jedi Mind Tricks’ beats and song titles.
Contact Campus Press Staff Writer Gary Black at gary.black@thecampuspress.com.
