REVIEW | REAL DEAL OPEN MIC NIGHT (@LogicArmy @MightyMoe)

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A lot of anti­cip­a­tion and buzz for the launch of Real Deal that the Hip Hop Com­munity and myself couldn’t con­tain. Emcees where sharpen­ing their mind body and soul whilst the organ­isers worked hard to leave no stone unturned.  Chip Shop’s repu­ta­tion alone was a guar­an­teed atmo­sphere that real Hip Hop heads could indulge in so it was a can’t miss night from the word.

Logic Army’s vis­ion organ­ised and re-birthed a long lost heart­break when in 2007 Deal Real closed it’s doors.  The cha­ris­mat­ic mas­ter of cere­mon­ies on the night Cap­it­al Jors gave a brief his­tory of the record store Deal Real that laid the inspir­ing brick work for the even­ing. The title Real Deal is obvi­ously a homage paid to the infam­ous record store in Soho that har­boured so many UK Hip Hop tal­ent and drew so many estab­lished US artist like Kanye West , GZA and Mos Def.

It was a typ­ic­al wel­come walk­ing into the Chip Shop with banging beats, nod­ding heads and all smiles. Deli­cious food cir­cu­lated the room; Craft beers poured and Emcees where mum­bling their rhymes to them­selves.  Before I sat down with a mate who was in awe exper­i­en­cing his first time in the Chip Shop, I walked up to Logic and Mike to shake hands and show love for the event. The clock was reach­ing 9:30ish I believe, Mighty Moe was spin­ning in the back­ground and we were chat­ting Hip Hop with good people we nev­er met before. The golden clip­board was passed around like a splif with more than 20 emcee’s sig­na­tures to step to the plate. A small announce­ment from Cap­it­al Jors and finally he soun­ded for the Bell around 10pm.

Emcees came out the gate like a bat out of hell and people’s faces turned into that strange smell look which recog­nise sick Emcees spit­ing flames. I failed to men­tion that apart from Logic Army, UK Hip Hop roy­alty was in the build­ing with Mic Right­eous, Rod­ney P and Skinny Man so we expec­ted noth­ing less but people’s A game.

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Sep­ar­at­ing Emcees was more dif­fi­cult than expec­ted as a lot soun­ded seasoned and nat­ur­al behind the micro­phone. Every­one has their own tastes and opin­ions but all received love and sup­port who­ever touched the stage. Cap­it­al Jors hyped the per­form­ances per­fectly and when all names were crossed he made a spe­cial announce­ment which we all were excited for. Mic Right­eous was announced to touch the Mic and we knew we were in for some­thing spe­cial.  After a little bit of friendly banter, Mic pro­ceeded to poor his heart and soul into his per­form­ance like he always does which deman­ded com­plete atten­tion. Every­one was moved. His visu­als and stor­ies painted emo­tions address­ing cul­tur­al and men­tal health issues along­side his­tory.  After a sig­ni­fic­ant per­form­ance, Mic embraced every­body and faded back to wit­ness end­less Emcees jump on the micro­phone inspired and in admir­a­tion of what they just saw.

The clos­ing of the even­ing got people stomp­ing the feet, buy­ing rounds and emcees mag­net­ised on the Mic. I saw pure hap­pi­ness on logic’s face on a job well done and appre­ci­ation from all that reached.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Chip Shop is the heart of Hip Hop when it comes to Lon­don. This is home and Logic Army found anoth­er way to make ourselves feel home. The next event is the 5th of June and there is no reas­on not to swing by. It’s the first Tues­day of every month as well and you’ll prob­ably catch me at all of them.  Check out realdea­lo­pen­m­ic on ins­tagram, the Chip Shop Bxtn web­site, I Am Hip Hop magazine, The Big Bang Show on Reprezent radio 107.3 FM And The Hip Hop back In The Day Show on West­side 89.6 FM for your Hip Hop fix. Catch you at the next one. Peace!

 

 

 

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SIRE

Emcee, Radio Host, Journ­al­ist and Hip Hop junkie unwill­ing to go to rehab! Lon­don is my home and if there is a live per­form­ance cham­pi­on­ing the Hip Hop cul­ture, you’ll hear from me on what I think and you’ll prob­ably catch me there doing back­flips amongst Boom Bap sounds. Fol­low me on @reignofsire.

About SIRE

Emcee, Radio Host, Journalist and Hip Hop junkie unwilling to go to rehab! London is my home and if there is a live performance championing the Hip Hop culture, you’ll hear from me on what I think and you’ll probably catch me there doing backflips amongst Boom Bap sounds. Follow me on @reignofsire.