Showing posts with label The Good Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Good Life. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2009

This Is The Life

This Is The Life - a documentary about the early 90's movement of young artists exploring the boundaries of hip-hop music at The Good Life Cafe in South Central Los Angeles. That's a very basic synopsis, but if you know anything about The Good Life Cafe, you know it has birthed some of the greatest emcees of all time: Jurassic 5, Freestyle Fellowship, Abstract Rude, CVE, OMD (2Mex & Xololanxinxo), Ellay Khule aka Rifleman, Medusa, the list can go on forever.



I finally got to watch the film last night at their very special screening at The Downtown Independent Theatre in downtown LA, and it blew my mind. First hand interviews and exclusive footage from the people who lived through the epic time made the film extremely personable, you felt like you were there. At the end of the film, Cut Chemist (dubbed as the only white guy at The Good Life) took part in a Q+A with the audience which delved even deeper into his personal perspective of the importance of The Good life and how its existence was responsible for so many artists, how it made an impact on himself as a musician, and how it was responsible for the creation of his group at the time, Jurassic 5.


2Mex of the Visionaries will be the very special guest tomorrow, March 14th. He'll be doing a few songs for the crowd as well as a Q+A (I think). The cost of the show is only $10 and I would say it is well worth every penny. Go out and support and find your roots.

Monday, March 9, 2009

The Good Life Reunion Concert - 3/10/09

Attention to all of those in the LA underground. Tomorrow night is a very special night indeed with a finale to end all finale's. The winner of numerous awards for Best Documentary is going to be hitting the stage for one night only to celebrate the release of the DVD Documentary "This Is The Life" highlighting the very best to come out of The Good Life cafe.

Check the flyer to see all the performers who are going to hit the stage tomorrow night. This is history in the making people!