Title:
Delano's Revenge 7
Concept: Annual Bashment
Promoters:
Delano & Renaissance w/ Red Stripe
Cost:
$350 pre/ $500 gate
Venue: Caymanas
Polo Club
Date: Saturday, November 10th
What
a treat to go to a Revenge and actually get inside the venue
within half an hour of reachin' the entrance of Caymanas!
Lemme tell you bout Revenge 5 for a minute! The Revenge when
Matterhorn relesed Bounty's "Look
into The Dance" dub. I drove Suzi (my beloved
white Swift that I killed in '99) and took a couple breddrins
with me. About half way down the road to the venue the traffic
blocked up and came to a complete stand still. I waited for
about 45 minutes before something tek me and I turned off
the car, came out, locked the doors and started walking. I
mean, I left the car in the middle of the road. Everybody
around me start cuss and ask the question I have heard countless
times before ... "A wha do dis
mad white gyal??!!" ...Well, dem mussi realize
seh it mek sense at the time because everybody follow me to
rass. Then there were those who thought parking their vehicle
at a 45 degree angle on the ditched shoulder made sense. Most
of us have all seen this before, and some of you reading now
are probably the jackasses that committed the aforementioned
act. It wasn't us that parked our cars in the middle of the
road that caused the problem at 6am when the show done. It
was the tow trucks strewn all across the path leading out
to the highway pulling these same cars and their dismembered
bumpers to their rescue.
Anyway
- I just wanted to relay that story because Revenge 7 was
so well organized and nuttin' like Revenge 5. I
was so pleased with Delano and the crew for looking out for
his patrons and actually getting some police patrol out there
to keep shit orderly. But I swear, you FOOLS that insist
on passing the line of traffic on the right makes it really
difficult to keep things in order. Why must you do that?
I'm neurotic about this subject and next time I'm going to
come out and direct traffic my damn self! (yeh man...you SOON
see dat!).
Now
selectaaaaah...As we entah inside....
So,
like I said, the first thing that I noticed was the great
organization of traffic outside. We got into VIP
parking with no problem and there were so many cars parked
in there! No problem for me and more power to the VIPs but
Delano love gwaan like him stingy bout VIP parking passes!!
hahaha! Z'all good... More love, Dilly.
So
we reach in the venue with little hassle at the gate. There
were two entrances and they were metal detecting the men and
searchin the women's bags. Now let me ask you all something.
Who's to say that I'm not packing?? Mi camera a mi gun still,
but who's going to stop the shotta from handing his piece
to his girlfriend to stick in her waist if she don't have
one strapped on her ankle already? Just a question still.
What can you do? Moving along...
As
I reach backstage, it was all 'bout kickin' back. No
pictures until everybody was good and crunked. Apparently,
the free Red Stripe 'til 1am kicked a couple people smack
in the face before I got there at 1:30 because there were
heads on knees all over by the time I reach! Hahaaaaaa! We
just grabbed a couple dozen rum tickets and held those for
the night, yuhzimi. Beer doesn't do a body good especially
when decked out in air restricting jeans and tube top, yuh
get mi? Of course, Kokonuts & Kocktails did the bar good
with nuff nuff bartenders. Absolutely necessary for big bashments
like Delano's Revenge.
Although
the crowd was about cut in half compared to past years
(due to the weather without a doubt) the vibes was still kickin
- fully. Last year the crowd reached bout 8 thousand - this
year only about 4. I kept in close contact with Delano throughout
the day because it was pourin rain continuously. At about
5pm that evening, he sounded a little worried but YUH DUN
KNOW...Delano a soldier and stuck it out. The rain stopped
pissin' and pissed off and Revenge 7 was a definite go! WOOO-HOOO!
Let's
discuss the reason why we were there (apart from supporting
Dilly *wink*) - THE MUSIC!! Yes the music was fantastic!
The promotion of this event was different from past Revenges
if you all noticed. It was centered around DANCING - NOT the
dance itself. We got in when Alric
& Boyd were tearing up the place with real
DANCIN' music! They did a great great job at churning up the
vibes while it was till early. Then Kurt
"The Party Animal" Riley took
over with Dr. Dre from Renaissance
on the mic. Love dat - no doubt. Then
The Asylum DJs came on and kind of started the
original DANCE vibe. Chat chattin on the mic and spinnin'
dubs and ting. It took away from the dancING aspect that Delano
wanted to keep sacred at Revenge 7 but nonetheless they played
wicked!
Next
up was...hmmmm...aahhm...more rum? Nah..let me
see now...I believe Matterhorn
played next. No no...Jazzy T from
Renaissance who also kept outta line with the dancING
vibe and run 'bear dub and ting. The vibe in the place got
a likkle more rowdy but everybody "behaved" themselves.
Just some Red Stripe wars an ting an ting. Dat's cool. Sky
Juice come up next and gwaan wid him "belly
full" of antics and then Matterhorn,
who set the stage - for the stage show. (I think I got
the order correct - I was busy runnin' around with a Sharpie
pen signing everything in sight. If I marked up anything that
I shouldn't have, I'm sorry. It was terribly immature and
I promise I won't do it again *snicker*).
Yes
- The Stage show now. Wicked wicked wicked. I was
just taking some pics on stage when Bounty
come on stage and grab up a mic with some ferocity. *click
click* Next thing you know he called up T-Dot's one and only
Kardinal Offishal who fu@ked up the venue with
his and Bounty's special remix of Bakardi
Slang. On top of that,
I was so tremendously pleased to
see Canada's Finest reppin' at Revenge. Guys - thanks.
Y'all made my night. The Rascalz
was up in there LIKE WHAT.
Question: Why wasn't Kardi allowed to
dun him set????
Rickie Rudie aka. Bling Dawg, Richie
Stephens & DYCR
(?) also performed and kept the crowd bumpin'.
Notice how Bling Dawg is everybody's favourite new deejay
nowadays?? Yuh see it.
Yuh
dun know, MY DEEJAY, Spragga La Benz
was up in Revenge. He was actually meant to headline
the show, but was scheduled to be away - he called Delano
at the last minute to mek him know seh he was in fact representin
at Revenge. *applause* Imagine me when I decided to leave,
Spragga took the mic WHEN I was getting in the CAR!!! Grrrrrrraaargh.
It's all good, him fu@k up the place even without me there
HAHAHA!
So,
Revenge was wicked! Nuff nuff people were there reppin' for
Dilly T - deejay Sean Paul,
Route 76's Nags & Mega-V
(look out for their spot on Whaddat comin' soon!!), Fame's
E-Spot top a top Claudette Powell
along with Kevin Lee and the X MEDIA
crew, Odessa Chambers & the Music
Plus crew (watch out for these TV shows people),
DJ Leftside (where Esco
deh? A farin?), deejay Desperado
and soon-to-bus'-reallly-big upcomer
TAZ, Red Square massive, and a whole bunch of Kingston's
MIAMI massive.
Delano
- KUDOS to you. You pulled of an excellent event.
People - remember - When The Chicks
say it's going to be a Bashment - it's because we know it's
going to be a bashment and for no other reason. SO WE DO IT.
Yuh dun know.
One.
Mic
