I was out on tour opening for Ghostface all last week. It was a little bit of a challenge because I didn’t play any dirty south hip-hop, house, club, 80s or whatever else I’m used to playing, but I had fun with real schitt hip-hop and classic soul and reggae. It’s pretty awesome getting a room full of backpackers to sing along to Gloria Jones “Tainted Love.”

Ghost at Highline Ballroom in NY, photo by Ian Meyer – prints for sale at Crewcial.org. (more pictures here).

Cappadonna killed it with those long breathless verses from Winter Wars and Daytona 500.  When he’s 48 bars in and still going the crowd just loses it.

Rhythm Roots Allstars unloading from the bus. These dudes kill it live, staying faithful to the original Ghostface instrumentals and freaking shit like Nautilus, No No No and La La Means I Love You. The old guy is our bus driver; he’s normally the driver for Good Charlotte.

My bunk on the bus is the size of a coffin but has its own DVD / CD / radio player. Scion puts us up in four star hotels but we don’t even sleep there.  To get from St Louis to Minneapolis for example we had to leave at like 3 AM so the hotel was just a really expensive place to shower and change clothes after the show.

Mike the 2600 King showed me around Minneapolis and took me to the Burlesque Design studios.

Wezz and Mike were printing MF Doom posters.

The Rub European tour is going swimmingly, thanks for asking! Just one day left then we’ll be home for a couple of days. I have to say the highlight so far was playing with Sinden, Switch, Kool Keith and South Rakkas crew at Fabric. So nuts!

Sinden, me & Dow Jones of SouthRakkas Crew

Switch

More pictures soon-ish. Eleven and I won’t be back in time for McCarren Pool Party Saturday so Cosmo is holding it down along with Kennan & Mikey Palms so go! I’ll be at Highline Ballroom Monday with Ghostface but I think the RSVPs are already full up. But in the meantime check out the video for Escort’s “All Through The Night.”

Scandinavia was really nuts. The Rumble in Malmo in particular was just an incredible party – I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many people go nuts to Baltimore Club in my life.  To give you an idea, the biggest song of the night was DJ Class “Stop Snitching!”

All the parties were great – shout out to Sampo in Helsinki, Jaywalker crew in Oslo, Jonny and Sanna, Saurabh and my man Stefan in Stockholm and of course Sweet Fred and the Discobelle crew in Malmo.  Tittsworth murdered it everywhere we went, and I just tried to keep up!  We literally didn’t sleep at night the whole time we were there, just a few afternoon naps to battle the 21+ hours of daylight everyday.

Helsinki photos here, more photos coming.  So now I’m home playing catch up for a few days, then heading up to Montreal on Friday.