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ROCK THE BELLS SF August 29 2011
While up here, I made my way to Mountain View to catch Rock the Bells. I couldn’t make it to the one in LA last week, so it all worked out. Christine Alane and I really just wanted to see Nas and Lauryn Hill at the festival. Mission accomplished.
Nas performed all of Illmatic in a set that lasted well over an hour.
Waiting between sets.
Finally, Lauryn Hill. I first watched Lauryn around 10 years ago, when Miseducation first came out, and one of her tour stops included what was then called the Universal Amphitheater. That album did so much for me as a teenager, and now as a woman. When I heard that she’d be headlining and performing all of Miseducation, I knew I had to see her again. In between then and now, there’s been some controversy surrounding her - how she went crazy, her unplugged album that could not match her freshman release, how she was super diva at every performance, etc, etc. But I chose not to listen; I chose to keep her on that pedestal. And after seeing her last Saturday, I’m doing the same thing. I don’t care what anyone has to say about her. She still got me.
When she came back for her encore, she performed “Fu-gee-la” and “Ready or Not” from The Fugees’ The Score. Everyone got so hyphy (to use proper bay area terms). Then, she brought out Nas to do “If I Ruled the World”. Nuts.
It was a great day.
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