REVIEW | CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP WITH BLACK STAR LIVE AT THE WE OUT HERE FESTIVAL

Photo cred­it — Lauren Lux­en­berg

This year WeOutHere put a real focus on Hip Hop to acknow­ledge and cel­eb­rate the 50^th anniversary of Hip Hop. Bring­ing togeth­er a top tier selec­tion of Artists and DJs from across the UK and around the world.

Not­able stand outs were DJ Sarah Love, Knucks and on Sunday Louis VI’s incred­ible per­form­ance along­side Blue Lab Beats.

The Main­Stage Head­liner slot on the pen­ul­tim­ate night was reserved for a very rare Black Star per­form­ance.
Yasi­in Bey (Form­ally Mos Def) and Talib Kweli took to the stage flaw­lessly drop­ping cuts from both Black Star albums with the live première of tracks taken from their first album in over 20 years ’No Fear of time’ along­side solo fan favour­ites from their own clas­sic cata­logues.

Yasi­in Bey even pre­view­ing a dope unre­leased alchem­ist pro­duc­tion to a rap­tur­ous recep­tion.

Per­son­al high­lights for me was singing along to a sub­lime rendi­tion of ‘Brown Skin Lady’ with my homegirl in the front row and Yasiin’s ener­get­ic per­form­ance of ‘Case Bey’

The time­less Black star syn­ergy was on full dis­play with every com­plex lyr­ic­al verse delivered to per­fec­tion and with the packed crowd of thou­sands in the palm of their hands singing along to the chorus’s, this was the Black Star show we wanted for dec­ades!

The nov­elty of see­ing Black Star live was not worn off on any­one in attend­ance. What added to this spec­tacle was see­ing the sun go down mid-per­form­ance as WeOutHere Fest­iv­al des­cen­ded into dark­ness Black Star lit up the night sky send­ing us home fully sat­is­fied and cap­ping off a fant­ast­ic week­end of Hip Hop and a won­drous WeOutHere Fest­iv­al 2023.

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SKANDOUZ .

Hip Hop Artist / Act­iv­ist / Journ­al­ist / Fun lov­ing indi­vidu­al @SKANDOUZ (On Errr’thang )

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