QN5 Music

Substantial’s Video Premier Party Recap

Posted 4 years, 10 months, 1 week, 2 days, 10 hours, 11 minutes ago by Substantial

Peace Family,
First let me apologize for the delay. I’ve been waiting for video footage that I still haven’t received. It sucks that I couldn’t getit because yall really need to see what you missed so that you can kick yourselves in the ass for not coming through. Regardless we still packed the house. My UV Ink Team was definitely in the building and plenty of UV Ink / QN5 Music fans were out and about as well. A lot of my NYC/Jersey fam came down too. Shout out to Gifted, Jun, and Purple Haze for coming down from NJ. And shout out to Powerful, Naturel, Fresh Daily, Insanate and my man Peter from Dylated Clothing for making that trek from NYC. It was truly a special night topped off by my family being there as well. So thank all of you who were apart of it.

Alright so before I get into the play by play of the night let me tell you about how much work and planning went in to this shit. This event has been in the works for the last 3 months. I designed the flyer myself of course. We even did a cheesy little commercial to plug the event on Youtube.com.

I was able to secure the venue thru my boy 5’7” of King Jakob’s Court. I wanted to really do an actual house party for the premier but I didn’t want to be responsible for wrecking someone’s home. So instead we went with Carpool because it was a great size but still very chill. Really cool environment with couches, pool tables, cute waitresses, darts and arcade games, good food, even a foosball table. Can’t beat that! Peep this video of me giving a brief tour of the venue. It’s a little dark but you should get a kick out of it.

Alright so let’s fast forward to the day of the event.
8:30AM Me & the misses (a.k.a. “More than Enough” as my homegirl Tiffani calls her. Get it, Substantial… More than enough… anyway) wake up and get ready for our Jow Ga class. I’m tired as fuck because I was up till 3am twisting my hair. Fresh Daily got in town on Friday night. So I’m trying to wake him up to see if he wants to roll. He keeps sleeping so we keep it moving and get our things together. When we’re ready to go I try to wake him again he finally gets up and says that he’d go but he didn’t want to hold us up. We all know the truth is, Fresh didn’t want to go to Kung Fu class… *cough*pussy!

10AM We’re late arriving at class because I forgot something at the crib which has me annoyed. On the way there I called my Mom to make sure she was coming and this woman answers the phone like “What do you want?” Talk about rude! My feelings were hurt. So I asked her what that was about, she said nothing, that’s when I asked her if she was rolling to my show and apparently she was annoyed because I didn’t invite her. I told her that there’s nothing I do that she’s not invited to. We get off the phone and I was truly ready for class because that shit had me HEATED. So best believe I was lighting shit up in class.

11:30AM Class is over and I’m off to get my locks braided by my homegirl Jasmine owner of BadAzz Braids in Baltimore, MD. She’s does some of the sickest corn rows you’ll ever see. Anyway I sit down to get my locks done and her daughter is there. Since she doesn’t know me and momma’s not paying her any mind, she starts to cry. Now let me put you on to something if you got kids, learn how to beatbox! I don’t have kids but whenever my godson starts to cry that beatbox skill comes in handy… trust me! Thank God Jasmine was done in 20 minutes because my lips were getting dry as hell… (pause).

12:30PM The misses and I had several hours to kill before we picked up Peter of Dylated Clothing up from the Chinatown bus stop. So I went to cop some shorts in Lexington Market in B’more. Now while we’re on the topic of shorts let me vent for a second. I not sure when it became cool but I absolutely hate men capris or “Shants” (Short + Pants = Shants) as Peter calls them. They look terrible! They look like wide leg high waters. Put them on with an oversized T-Shirt and you’ll look like a giant midget. So anyway I spotted some black cargo shorts that matched the custom T-Shirt Peter was bringing but I kept looking just in case since we had more time to kill. After two hours of “shants” I went back where I started and copped the black cargo shorts and some black footies.

3PM We pick up Pete and head home to grab the show supplies and get fresh for the main event. All day my phone had been ringing off the hook. It rings again and its 5’7” telling me that the sound dude only has two speakers as opposed to four. That’s a problem especially considering the fact that I’m paying for four plus it’s too short notice to make some last minute magic happen so I keep it moving.

4PM Get to the crib and Fresh isn’t there yet. He called me earlier saying that he stepped out to hang with some of our fam here in MD, which is fine, but I’m stressing because my man has a history of lateness. He said he’d be back by 5pm so I get everything else ready while we wait for him and the photographer.

5:30PM Everyone is at the crib and it’s time to bounce we pack up the whip, fill up the tank, put air in the tires and pop Devin the Dude in the system and drive a full hour ten to twenty minutes to Herndon, VA from my crib in Glen Burnie, MD. During the ride, I text message my boy a page worth of mapquest directions because he doesn’t have a computer of his
own. With the amount of herb this man smokes there is no reason why this man shouldn’t own a computer.

7PM We’ve arrived at Carpool and finished unpacking the car.
We take everything to the VIP area and stash our stuff. I notice there was a few people hanging in there and they have balloons and shit. Next thing you know a staff member tells me we can’t use the back anymore because theyhave rented it out. Right about now I’m ready to throw something but I stay calm and roll with the punches. Its just really lame because they promised me the area just a week before the event and said that they’d reserve it for us. So much for people keeping their word, I mean really, who does that anymore???
Video Tour of the venue

7:30PM The drama keeps coming. In the next two hours the following things happened: 1) my boy calls telling me his car is being towed, he was nearly arrested, and he’s near by and needs someone to pick him up. 2) The sound dude drops off the equipment, and then bounces without setting shit up. Oh and he never returned! 3) Definition, my drummer for the night tells me that the rest of the band showed up and says that they have to be out by midnight because they have to drive to. Pittsburgh after they rock. So I had to change my entire set at the last minute because I didn’t want to rearrange the sets. Luckily I had a set disc in the car from 3 months back. Always have a back up plan folks!!! Oh yeah and 4) Peter was whipping my ass on the Pool Table! I want a rematch damn you!!!

Shout out to DJ Wrekless for holding down the wheels of steel.

10PM My host for the night, 7-1-20 a.k.a. Godallahtruth, brings me to the stage to say a few words and get the show started.

First up was King Jakob’s Court.

They the hometown group so naturally they had a lot of folks there to see them rock. Shout out to Skip, 5’7”, Devo & Earleybird for doing their thing. Special shout out to SeezMics from Educated Consumers for coming through and showing cats how to murder a guest spot.

10:30PM Now I’m starting to stress again because KJC ran a few minutes longer than we discussed but it’s all love. Next up is my big homie Gnorman Insanate Baites.

Be warned if you ever seen my boy rock he despises chatter in the crowd. So, in the midst of a whirlwind of lyrics, he bully-footed the audience a bit for being insubordinate.

10:50PM Next up was Purple Haze reppin’ for the ladies.

At this point oftime, those who weren’t paying attention were all ears now. P. Haze’s charisma was undeniable. She bodied it so much she received a proposal after her set from 5’7” of KJC.

11:10PM Let me just say, God’s Illa just may be my new favorite group.

Imagine a new school Brand Nubian except their all blood brothers and their birth names are cooler than your average rappers alias. Powerful, Godallahtruth & Acem make up God’s Illa a.k.a. God is Illa. Their chemistry is truly an amazing thing to watch and their music & lyrical content is refreshing. The brothers had the crowd jumping. The show continued to get better and better.

11:30PM Naturel and the band hit the stage.

“Bodied it!” Definitely a different vibe than the prior acts and the people love it. I joined him on stage and we rocked our joint “The Bidness” from the Make Da Face Mixtape over Slum Village’s the “The Look of Love”. We were both a little rusty but the people loved it and sang along.

11:50PM Fresh Muthafuckin Daily!!!

The crowd was a little passive at first but Fresh broke them out of that with the quickness. Tight set and the people definitely enjoyed it.

12:10AM At the stroke of Midnight I took the stage and introduce the video. By this time the house was packed a little more than usual and people were definitely amped to see the video. But just when you thought the drama was done, the damn DVD is doing the old stop and go! Not due to scratched but because the vibrations from the sound system was shaking the DVD player. So my man 5’7” saves the day and held the player through the entire video. When it ended people showed so much love. It was really cool to hear the people familiar with song singing the hook while thevideo played.

12:20PM It’s clobbering time!!! I take the stage and didn’t waste anytime. Fresh held me down like old times and we proceed to kill shit.

MY SETLIST:
• Chain Reaction (Always a fun opener)

• Resurrection of the House Party (As if you didn’t see that coming)
• What I Love (It’s always cool to see people in the crowd familiar with your music. It makes my job so much easier.)
• Opium (I could’ve done a lot better but… ah who I am kidding, BODIED IT)

• What You Want (Shout to J. Cash for holding me down with the adlibs. Always cool to rock that song. It always has a great way of switching up the vibe.)
• That Damn Good – Remix Verse Acapella (1st time I’ve spit that verse live. I must say it’s definitely a crowd pleaser.)
• I Don’t Know – w/ Gifted produced by Ill Mind (That was fun as hell. Yall can peep the vid of this joint then go to Gifted’s myspace page to hear the rough mix of this joint.)

• Beatbox Rendition (I usually don’t do my longer beatbox routines in the states but because I was at home I kick my feet up and got comfortable. A lot of people said that was the highlight of my set.)

• Spaticus (I was gonna bounce after the beatbox shit because my voice was shot but the people wanted one more and they wanted that raw shit. F. Daily screamed out Spaticus but I didn’t have Tone’s beat with me. DJ Wreckless thru on some hot shit and I got busy. Two words: BODIED IT!)

And that was that folks. Wrekless spinned more music and I moved a little bit of product. Then wrapped erverything up and crashed with my in-laws in VA. It was truly a great night. I really wish you guys were there. But don’t worry folks next stop Cali! I promise me and the fam will make it a night to remember.

Stay tuned!

Stay in Peace
Substantial

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