The Living Legends & The Grouch
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Tour Dates 04/08/08 In-Store @ Amoeba CA
04/08/08 Starline Fresno, CA[1] 04/09/08 CD Release Party LA, CA[1] 04/10/08 Jerry’s Bakersfield, CA1] 04/11/08 Colonial Thtr Sacramento, CA[1] 04/12/08 Elbo Room San Francisco, CA 04/12/08 WOW Hall Eugene, Oregon[1] 04/13/08 Nectar’s Seattle, WA[1] 04/14/08 Callaloo Bellingham, WA[1] 04/15/08 Hawthorne Portland, OR[1] 04/17/08 Urban Lounge SLC, UT[1] 04/18/08 Black Sheep Springs, CO[1] 04/19/08 Marquis Denver, Colorado[1] 04/20/08 La Estancia Indio, California 04/21/08 Rialto Tucson, Arizona 04/21/08 Orpheum Flagstaff, AZ[1] 04/22/08 Vaudeville Tucson, AZ[1] 04/22/08 The Roxy Los Angeles, CA 04/23/08 Canes San Diego, CA 04/23/08 Chaser’s Phoenix, AZ[1] 04/24/08 Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA 04/25/08 Coachella! Indio, California 04/25/08 Humboldt Community Ctr,CA 04/27/08 Murs @ Coachella! Indio,CA 04/30/08 Club Underground Reno, NV[1] 05/03/08 Whiskey Dick’s Tahoe, CA[1] [1] “Child Support Tour”
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The Living Legends are a hip-hop crew consisting of Sunspot Jonz, Luckyiam.PSC (aka Luckyiam), The Grouch (more on him later), MURS, Scarub, Eligh, Aesop Fables, and Bicasso. Each member are already established hip hop rhymesayers, but together, they prove to be something more.
Their new EP, The Gathering, is released today, April 8th, right in the middle of their hilariously-named “Child Support Tour” tour.
These guys are pretty famous, especially if you live in California, or liked the Wu-Tang Clan. What’s kind of cool is that, like the Wu-Tang Clan, each artist brings their own influence and style to each song.
Take for instance, the lead song, “The Gathering” is pretty much a display of dialogue between all The Living Legends crew. I’m not too well-versed in each rapper’s style, but I can hazard a guess that the funny line of “I work like a Mexican/run like an African” is by Eligh.
Regardless who is rapping as the mic is passed to the next, one message is clear in the song: The Living Legends is back to claim their crown as the king of hip-hop.
Also released today is one of the crew, The Grouch‘s full length album Show You the World.
I believe The Grouch is one of two white guys in The Living Legends, so you know this guy is drowned in underground hip-hop…. but this album is surprisingly accessible and easy to get into.
He raps about things he encounters in life, like meeting artsy fartsy elitist jerks in the hilarious “Artsy”.
In “Yardwork”, he talks about doing his yard work (in this case his computer with Protools and “the Photoshop”) and breaking his back to support his baby girl – only to see his music being illegally downloaded. He ends each chorus with “but this rap costs money”.
The album also features collaborations with, of course, members of The Living Legends (Bicasso, MURS, Scarub) as well as other underground singers (Raphael Saadiq, Abstract Rude, Mike Marshall)
If you’re a fan of The Living Legends, check out both The Gathering and Show You the World as they are extensions of each other. Both are released today and available through Legendary Music.
04/08/2008 00:25:34 vu my♥posts 
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