Location: Hideout
Show: Tales of Colt 45 feat. Matt & Kim, Hollywood Holt, Rand Sevilla, & The Death Set
Cost: RSVP
Drinks: free malt liquor til 11
I spun a seven hour tag team set last night. It wasn't my best work, coming as it did after a nine hour shift at the day job, but there were some true moments of genius. The highlight track of the night (not counting Apache Indian's "Boom Shak A Lak" and a bmore remix I made of Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"), was a track I didn't know I had until last night. It was a Million $ Mano remix of the Matt & Kim song "It's a Fact", with extra vocals by Hollywood Holt (listen to it here).
The song is 100% more than the sum of its parts, all of whom were showcased at this month's Vice Magazine/Colt 45 party at the Hideout.
The first act up was Hollywood Holt, who in only a couple years of performing, has built up quite a rep for himself. Not necessarily a good rep, but not necessarily a bad one either. There are just so many words, with both positive and negative connotations you can use to describe him, and they'd all be accurate. He's a stage diving, break dancing, moped riding hipster of the highest order, an insufferable braggart and a world class cock block. He's also a rapper that in his short time on the scene, has toured with M.I.A. and penned a couple of solid rap anthems (both "Throw a Kit", his moped-themed take on Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's" and his boastful "Caked Up"). Pretty much, he started out as a hype man, and he's living well beyond any hypeman's greatest dreams: He's cut out a little piece of the spotlight for his solo endeavors, played the world over with some of the best dance and hip hop acts today, has bitches all over his jock, and now even has his own hype man! It's like ascending your class rank in some sort of hip hop hinduism, and few hype men ever make it to the other side.
Still, watching him live is like watching a hype man; it's like watching a bat mitzvah dancer trying to woo grandma onto the dance floor to join the family for the Cha Cha Slide. At times he's completely engaging and at times he's just too cheeseball for words. I don't really know how to express the latter in print, but I'll use an exchange he had with an audience member as an example of the former.
Hollywood: [holding the microphone down to a cute girl in the audience] You like the show?
Cute Girl: Yeah!
Hollywood: You gonna go onto HollywoodHolt.com and download the album?
Cute Girl: Is it free?
Hollywood: Is it free?
Cute Girl: Yeah!
Hollywood: Oh I see. I'm good enough to come out and perform, but you won't pay for my record? I gotta just keep makin music and be poor andsleep on the bus? Why?
Cute Girl: It's for the people.
