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Friday's Art of Rap Festival is the first of three at Tinley Park's Hollywood Casino Amphitheater. The High Road and Make America Rage Again visits take after Aug. 16 and Sept. 3.
Chance the Rapper's as of late declared Magnificent Coloring World Tour arrives Sept. 24 at U.S. Cell Field.
Here's an once-over of the demonstrates that speak to a mix of high times, from when the craftsmen drove the insurrectionary development in the '80s and '90s that is still applicable today to the more laidback vibes of weed promoters.
The Art of Rap Festival
Ice-T, Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, the Furious Five, Sugarhill Gang, Melle Mel, Mobb Deep, EPMD and Kurtis Blow will perform at the SiriusXm Backspin Art of Rap Festival at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, 19100 Ridgeland Ave. in Tinley Park.
The fest, which is named after Ice-T's narrative "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" and was held just in California in 2015, gives back this mid year for an eight-city visit. It's displayed by Ice-T and Mickey Bentson, supervisor for Ice-T and the Furious Five and an establishing individual from worldwide hip-bounce development Zulu Nation.
Ice-T, who was conceived in New Jersey, brought by an auntie up in South Central Los Angeles and renamed himself after Chicago-pimp-turned-creator Iceberg Slim, is the West Coast gangsta rap symbol known for penning obtuse verses about ghetto life, making an interpretation of dark fury into general wrath and, similar to others to take after, joining rap with metal. He confronted debate from the get-go, with his 1987 introduction "Rhyme Pays" being named by Tipper Gore's Parents' Music Resource Center and the '92 melody "Cop Killer" with his metal band Body Count instigating national shock.
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He discharged a 24-melody creation "O.G. Unique Gangster" in 1991, a life account in 1994 and more collections to dropping deals and showed up in motion pictures and unscripted television arrangement. Since 2000, he's played an investigator on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."
Following an eight-year rest, Body Count discharged "Homicide" in 2014, which incorporates a change of the Ice-T 1993 melody "99 Problems." They visited behind it on the Mayhem Festival, which was created by Synergy Global Entertainment, the Calif.- based organization additionally behind the Art of Rap.
Driven by baritone Chuck D and his clock-accessory wearing sidekick Flavor Flav, Public Enemy, as well, reformed hip jump and crossed classes and racial obstructions, scoring pop and R&B hits, visiting with U2 and working together with whip metal band Anthrax on "Bring the Noise" and jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis on "Battle the Power," the signature tune for Spike Lee's "Make the best decision."
Open Enemy turned into a commonly recognized name with "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" in 1988. It and "Apprehension of a Black Planet" stay among the best hip-jump collections ever.
In 2013, Public Enemy was enlisted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and showed up at Chicago's Riot Fest. Their thirteenth studio collection "Man Plans God Laughs" was discharged in 2015.
Prior this year, Chuck D and DJ Lord, Public Enemy's DJ/turntablist since '99, shaped Prophets of Rage, named after the Public Enemy melody, with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk and Cypress Hill's B-Real. (See more underneath.)
Tickets for Art of Rap are $25 for yard and begin at $30 for structure, including $245 for Official Platinum seats. Go to www.artofrapfest.com or www.livenation.com.
The High Road Tour
Joyful Jane Presents Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa: The High Road Tour, likewise highlighting Kevin Gates, Jhene Aiko, Casey Veggies and DJ Drama, at 7 p.m. Aug. 16 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater.
While the specialists on the Art of Rap and Prophets of Rage visits talk more to political activism and societal disunity, the High Road Tour supported by a cannabis site has a more … uh murmur … unwinding nature. Its logo highlights Snoop Dogg, a blurb kid for high times all times, and Wiz Khalifa, who appeared a line of cannabis items April 20 in Colorado, cruising Route 420 in a Cadillac. (For the uninitiated, "four-twenty" is code for the time or date to smoke pot.)
The two hip-bounce specialists do a joint set on the 33-city visit.
Known for West Coast rhymes in a drawl conveyance, including "izzle" to the end of words and for such singles as "What's My Name?" and "Gin and Juice," main event Snoop Dogg just discharged his fourteenth collection, "Coolaid."
He has sold more than 37 million collections, with a 2012 reggae try corresponding with a brief name change to Snoop Lion. He propelled his profession in the mid '90s on Dr. Dre's "The Chronic," which was titled after a slang term for good weed and included the hit "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang." It was trailed by his No. 1 debut collection "Doggystyle" and ensuing diagram topping collections.
Snoop Dogg additionally has featured in motion pictures, all alone family-accommodating unscripted television arrangement and all the more as of late on "Big name Family Feud."
Wiz Khalifa, 28, discharged his fifth collection "Khalifa" in February. The lead single "Prepare Sale" is about, you got it, weed. His different singles incorporate "We Dem Boyz," "Dark and Yellow," "No Sleep," "Word Hard, Play Hard," and 2015's "See You Again" with Charlie Puth for the late performer Paul Walker's last scene in "Irate 7."
Khalifa is one of numerous visitor craftsmen on Snoop's "Coolaid." The two additionally worked together on the soundtrack for and featured in the 2012 direct-to-DVD stoner film "Macintosh and Devin Go to High School."
Tickets are $21 and up, including $168 for general-affirmation pit. Go to www.livenation.com.
Prophets of Rage
The recently shaped supergroup Prophets of Rage brings its "Make America Rage Again" visit with Awolnation to the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater at 7 p.m. Sept. 3.
The revolutionists with a cause as of late performed "guerilla" style at different destinations close to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
Electronic rock band Awolnation's "Sail" holds the record for most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 outline by a free craftsman.
Tickets begin at $20 for garden, standing deck and second structure or $69.50 for pit and first structure. Go to www.livenation.com.
Chance the Rapper's Magnificent Coloring Day
On the heels of his acclaimed mixtape "Shading Book" and amidst his "Eminent Coloring World Tour," Chance the Rapper shows "the main ever music celebration at U.S. Cell Field on Chicago's South Side" Sept. 24 at 333 W. 35th St.
Joining Chance, the 23-year-old rising star from Chicago's West Chatham neighborhood, are Grammy-winning artist/lyricists John Legend and Alicia Keys and electronica multi-instrumentalist Skrillex alongside Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert and Tyler, the Creator.
Tickets valued $35 to $150 went discounted July 29. Go to www.chanceraps.com.
Vickie Jurkowski is an independent correspondent for the Daily Southtown.
Their genuine names
Their real names
Match the artist with his name at birth.
1. Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls
2. Ice-T
3. Chuck D
4. Flavor Flav
5. Snoop Dogg
6. 2 Chainz
7. Wiz Khalifa
8. Chance the Rapper
9. Lil Uzi Vert
10. Skrillex
a. Calvin Broadus
b. Cameron Jibril Thomaz
c. Tracey Lauren Marrow
d. Sonny John Moore
e. Chancellor Bennett
f. Carlton Ridenhour
g. Symere Woods
h. Christopher George Latore Wallace
i. Tauheed Epps
j. William Drayton
Answers: 1h; 2c; 3f; 4j; 5a; 6i; 7b; 8e; 9g; 10d.
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