Day 53: FREE FOR ALL

This past weekend was the Spring Extravaganza. I didn't really have very high expectations for it considering i really only like one of the artists that was scheduled to perform, however my favorite part of the live performance wasn't what I thought it'd be. Biking over to Harder stadium, all I could think about was how sick Talib Kweli would be. Talib is an insane semi-underground hip-hop artist from New York (He's worked with the likes of Mos Def, Common, and the Wu-Tang-Clan, just to name a few). I've loved Talib for a while, and his performance was all i expected it to be. He had great chemistry with the crowd, and even squeaked in a few of his inevitable political messages (getting the whole crowd to join him in a "Fuck Fox News" chant). Although Talib's performance was the most close-to-home in terms of my musical taste, who really stole the show, in my opinion, was Rusko's performance. Rusko is an English dustup DJ / producer that over the last few years has gained world-wide recognition. Although I was familiar with his stuff before the show, I never could have guessed how fun Dubstep would be to listen to live. He was unable to contain his own energy, jumping up and down like a 5 year-old, which most defiantly rubbed off on the crowd, starting a huge mosh-pit, that, by chance, I ended up in the middle of. he did a remix of the Tetris theme song that brought everyone to perhaps the highest point of energy of the day.

A great day to say the least.