REVIEW | CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP AT THE OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY FOR THE NAS TOUR AT KOKO CAMDEN

Pho­to­graphy Cred­it — Zek Snaps

Arriv­ing at a sold out KOKO, I wouldn’t say I had high expect­a­tions con­sid­er­ing this wasn’t billed as an actu­al Nas con­cert per­form­ance but an after party with Nas mak­ing a guest appear­ance. I was hope­ful he would just show up and maybe spit a verse or two.
Based on the billed Nas appear­ance the ven­ue was packed and buzz­ing as if it was an actu­al con­cert.

Pho­to­graphy Cred­it — Zek Snaps

DJ Shortee Blitz and host Trinigla­di­at­or warmed up the crowd with a fant­ast­ic set. Cel­eb­rat­ing 50 years of Hip Hop mix­ing vari­ous clas­sics from across the five dec­ades.

Then it was time! At 12.45am one of the greatest Hip Hop artists of all time cas­u­ally walks on stage dressed in an all black fit­ted suit with a glass of Hen­nessy in one hand whilst he place the bottle by the turntables and put an arm around DJ Shortee Blitz where I assumed he said “Play the clas­sics” and that’s what we got for the next hour straight.

Pho­to­graphy Cred­it — Zek Snaps

Con­sid­er­ing he’d just com­pleted a world tour along­side the mighty Wu-Tang back from shut­ting down a sold out O2 Arena.
Nas was in a jovi­al mood and seemed genu­inely moved by all the love he received from the Koko crowd tonight.

This was remin­is­cent of the legendary after parties Prince was infam­ous for. We basic­ally got a Nas greatest hits con­cert.

After 45 minutes of con­tinu­ous hits from his near flaw­less 30year career fea­tur­ing “Nas is Like, got your­self a gun, if I ruled the world and more…” In a shock sur­prise Nas brought out Ghost­face Kil­lah, Raek­wan and Inspect­or Deck from legendary Wu-Tang Clan who ran through some of their time­less cuts includ­ing a super rare per­form­ance of “Verbal Inter­course” with Rae, Nas and Ghost supreme form before hand­ing back to a now mer­rily drunk­en Nas who closed out with some clas­sics from Icon­ic Ill­mat­ic Album before this amaz­ing night was done

All in attend­ance were thor­oughly impressed, rap­ping along to verses and singing chor­uses enjoy­ing every minute.

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