Crazy news about DJ Jazzy Jeff getting kicked off stage in Kansas City for playing Hip-Hop music. What were they expecting him to rock? Sounds like this latest incident is only a microcosm of bigger things going down in the area. Read the article and then check out his twitter feed for updates. link
I must start this letter by first apologizing to DJ Jazzy Jeff. You apologized to us, but you owe us nothing. Kansas City should have and would have shown you better on Saturday night. You said you had something special planned for us. Trust, we had every intention of soaking up each moment.
It’s just too bad the clowns who run KC Live and The Power & White District decided to suit up as Uncle Phillip Banks Bozo and friends last night, and boot you out of his house off the stage. They shut you down for playing hip hop 30 minutes into your set. When you first left the stage, I thought it was a joke — until I saw the laptop and turntables leave as well. Then it hit us: You were done and chucking Kansas City the deuces.
No, they didn’t ask you to stop playing hip hop because the crowd was rowdy. It wasn’t. The melting pot-like crowd was having a great time.
DJ Jazzy Jeff, a lot calmer than he was when he left the stage on Saturday night.
I’ve asked it and heard it asked 100 times in the past several hours: Why would you bring a hip hop DJ legend of 25 years to Kansas City and ask himto stop playing hip hop?
I think it’s just his fault, with a name like Jazzy Jeff people are gonna expect to hear some big band, some post-bop maybe but none of that crazy rap stuff nobody wants to hear. It’s a fad anyway.
@Jazz fan
Shut the fuck up. it’s people like you i hate. What the fuck you mean crazy rap stuff.
By your idiotic comment i can tell you don’t know shit.
Jazzy jeff has been deejaying for over 25 years. A legend in Hip Hop. Them crackers should’ve known that he plays rap music. Obviously they didn’t
I’m jazz record collector and been listening to jazz since i was young.
Jazz music has influenced Hip Hop. A lot Jazz artist were sampled by a lot of Hip Hop producers. As well as funk, soul and rock and roll. Without those genre’s of music rap music would not exsist. As for the earliest rap music that was made.
I’m not talking about today’s commercial/mainstream rap music that’s made. I don’t listen to that coon music.
So, to me rap music/Hip Hop is all of those genre’s. i listen to everything. Rap Music incorporates all of those genre’s into it’s production as for as sampling goes.
Basically, what i’m trying say is. Those people in kansas city were never fans of jazzy jeff or even hip hop/rap music. They don’t know shit. What the fuck did they expect.
So, fuck them crackers and kansas city.
i was kidding you idiot
sarcasm, do you get it!