00. opening act, ?Kaleji?
01. Worth the Weight
02. 85 to Africa >
03. Long Live the Chief
04. banter
05. Tribe > ???
06. banter
07. Sou Sou >
08. Zodi >
09. Little Bit More >
10. Particula >
11. Afrobeat Medley >
12. Sufi Woman >
13. Vaporiza
14. Bambi
15. Jungle Fever
16. banter
17. Babouche
18. banter
19. Classic Man >
20. 2 Points
Encore:
21. Tibetan Signing Bowl Prayer Ritual / My People … Hold On [Eddie Kendricks]
22. The Other Half
23. Pretty & Afraid
00. Introductory Comedian
01. Intro >
02. Hello
03. Out My Mind, Just in Time
04. On & On … & On
05. I Want You (inc. Don’t Stop The Music [Yarbrough and Peoples])
06. Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)
07. Interlude / banter
08. Me
09. banter
10. Apple Tree
11. Umm Hmm
12. Next Lifetime
13. Liberation (with Cee Lo Green)
14. band introductions
15. Humble Mumble
16. Window Seat
17. Interlude / banter
18. Puff
19. Tyrone
20. Outro Jam
Erykah Badu (vocals)
Durand Bernarr, ?La Kendra Johnson, ?Terron Austin (backing vocals)
RC Williams (keyboards, musical director)
Braylon Lacy (bass)
DJ A1 (drum machine)
Cleon Edwards (drums)
Frank Moka (percussion)
??? (turntables)
Rico Rashawn ??? Dice (???)
Notes: Next Lifetime has a cut near the beginning and is missing 10 or 15 seconds.
Goodie Mob
October 5, 2019
St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena
Shure MV88 > iPhone 7 > Motiv Audio App > WAV > Vegas Pro 14.0 (slight eq) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC
Recorded by Funk It Blog
01. Intro
02. Free
03. Goodie Bag
04. Call Of Da Wild
05. Git Up, Git Out
06. Get Rich To This
07. Dirty South
08. Thought Process
09. Black Ice (Sky High)
10. Soul Food (inc. samples/portions of Post Mortem [Cameo])
11. DJ Jaycee turntable solo
12. Grillz [Nelly] (with Ali Jones & The St. Lunatics)
13. Cell Therapy
14. They Don’t Dance No Mo’
15. Lovin’ You [Minnie Riperton] Intro > Fool For You
16. B.O.B. //
Notes: The last few minutes are missing because the mic got bumped. You’re not missing much, just the DJ playing B.O.B. and letting the crowd sing and dance around while Goodie Mob slips off stage.
While this was billed in the media by NPR and Rolling Stone as an historic event for a hip-hop act to headline “The Mother Church of Country Music”, Trigger at Saving Country Music.com reminds us not only that a few hip-hop acts HAVE previously graced this stage (albeit not as headliners) [J Dilla and Slum Village opened for Floetry in 2002, Nelly played a benefit in 2013, and Lauryn Hill and Janelle Monae have headlined in recent years*], but also how “the media portrayed the event, once again looking to characterize country music as a white-only, racist, exclusionary institution that took until 2019 to have hip-hop act play its Mother Church, and skewing the historical record to do so in a way that excluded the contributions of other African American and hip-hop performers to the Ryman’s legacy.”
My addition to that conversation is this documentation of the full Wu-Tang Clan, operating as a unit, as they embraced that sociocultural media narrative and used this night and performance as a chance to celebrate hip-hop and it’s ability to break down barriers of exclusion and racial tension.
* If we’re pointing out these media omissions, I have to add Erykah Badu‘s St. Patrick’s Day 2004 performance at the Ryman that still goes down as one of my top 5 shows of all time.
Wu-Tang Clan
June 9, 2019 – Nashville, TN @ The Ryman Auditorium Part 1 of 2: Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber, Da Mystery of Chessboxin’, Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
Wu-Tang Clan
June 9, 2019 – Nashville, TN @ The Ryman Auditorium Part 2 of 2: Method Man, Tearz, Reunited, Duel of the Iron Mic [GZA] (ending only), Mary Jane [Rick James] > Ice Cream [Raekwon]
01. Cut Throat City trailer
02. Intro
03. Bring Da Ruckus
04. Shame On A Nigga
05. Killa Beez On The Swarm
06. Clan In Da Front
07. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
08. Run [Cappadonna]
09. Can It Be All So Simple
10. Da Mystery of Chessboxin’
11. Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
12. C.R.E.A.M.
13. Method Man
14. Tearz
15. Protect Ya Neck
16. Come Together [The Beatles] >
17. Reunited
18. Severe Punishment
19. Duel of the Iron Mic [GZA]
20. Mary Jane [Rick James] >
21. Ice Cream [Raekwon]
22. ??? (with unknown MC)
23. Bring The Pain [Method Man]
24. Allah Mathematics Solo
25. 4th Chamber [GZA]
26. Shimmy Shimmy Ya [Ol’ Dirty Bastard] >
27. Got Your Money [Ol’ Dirty Bastard]
28. Gravel Pit
29. Duel To The Death Intro > Triumph
30. Cherchez LaGhost [Ghostface Killah]
RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna & Young Dirty Bastard with DJ Allah Mathematics.
