EVERY FIRST FRIDAY @ CLUB HIPPO
1 West Eager St, Baltimore

hosted by:

CEXMAN
DJ MARK BROWN
SCHWARZ

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Jan 21, 2011
@ 3:55 pm
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Vockah Redu and the Cru bring their unique astro-spiritual, sci-fi take on gender-bending New Orleans Bounce rap to Baltimore’s legendary Deep In The Game @ Club Hippo.As always, your boys SCHWARZ, CEXMAN, & DJ MARK BROWN will be bringing you the finest, rawest, and rarest jamz in the world.21+ // $3 b4 11pm $5 afterSome background info on VR & THE CREW:Coming out of the underground movement known as New Orleans Bounce music, Vockah Redu and the Cru bring much more to their show than straight-up booty- shaking and Bounce beats. “(It’s) Like if Prince and Erykah Badu had a baby and raised it in the Magnolia Projects”, says Allison Fensterstock, music writer forthe New Orleans Times Picayune. In his New York Times Magazine article on gender-bending New Orleans rappers (often called “sissy rappers”), Jonathan Dee compared Vockah to “A Latter-day George Clinton”. Indeed, in one of Vockah Redu and the Cru’s forty-five minute performances, they mix the infectious beat ofthe “Triggerman” (the backbone of New Orleans Bounce rap) with the afro-futuristic feel of Parliament and the gender-play and sexuality of Prince. But also in there you’ll find aspects of the New York voguing scene of the 80’s and 90’s, straight up hands-in-the-air party rap a and even snippets of electro-house and the Nu-Ravescene of dance music that has evolved over the last few years. And booty-shaking. Lots of choreographed, in your face, uninhibited booty-shaking all over the place.New Orleans Bounce music is a style of party music that developed in the early nineties. The music takes all different styles of music, from New Orleans second-line numbers to radio pop, set to one of a hand-full of backbeats. In the late 90’s a cross-dressing M.C. named Katey Red became one of the first outwardly gay rappers to put out a record. This paved the way for other non-conformist, pointedly non-macho Bounce artists to come up. Though Vockah shies from the popular tag of “Sissy Bounce”, the scene that has been lately labeled as such is the one that he came up in, dancing and rapping as a kid in the Magnolia Housing Projects. He then attended a local arts high school and began to piece together the Bounce music from his neighborhood with more varied outside influences.

Vockah Redu and the Cru bring their unique astro-spiritual, sci-fi take on gender-bending New Orleans Bounce rap to Baltimore’s legendary Deep In The Game @ Club Hippo.

As always, your boys SCHWARZ, CEXMAN, & DJ MARK BROWN will be bringing you the finest, rawest, and rarest jamz in the world.

21+ // $3 b4 11pm $5 after

Some background info on VR & THE CREW:

Coming out of the underground movement known as New Orleans Bounce music, Vockah Redu and the Cru bring much more to their show than straight-up booty- shaking and Bounce beats. “(It’s) Like if Prince and Erykah Badu had a baby and raised it in the Magnolia Projects”, says Allison Fensterstock, music writer for
the New Orleans Times Picayune. In his New York Times Magazine article on gender-bending New Orleans rappers (often called “sissy rappers”), Jonathan Dee compared Vockah to “A Latter-day George Clinton”. Indeed, in one of Vockah Redu and the Cru’s forty-five minute performances, they mix the infectious beat of
the “Triggerman” (the backbone of New Orleans Bounce rap) with the afro-futuristic feel of Parliament and the gender-play and sexuality of Prince. But also in there you’ll find aspects of the New York voguing scene of the 80’s and 90’s, straight up hands-in-the-air party rap a and even snippets of electro-house and the Nu-Rave
scene of dance music that has evolved over the last few years. And booty-shaking. Lots of choreographed, in your face, uninhibited booty-shaking all over the place.

New Orleans Bounce music is a style of party music that developed in the early nineties. The music takes all different styles of music, from New Orleans second-line numbers to radio pop, set to one of a hand-full of backbeats. In the late 90’s a cross-dressing M.C. named Katey Red became one of the first outwardly gay rappers to put out a record. This paved the way for other non-conformist, pointedly non-macho Bounce artists to come up. Though Vockah shies from the popular tag of “Sissy Bounce”, the scene that has been lately labeled as such is the one that he came up in, dancing and rapping as a kid in the Magnolia Housing Projects. He then attended a local arts high school and began to piece together the Bounce music from his neighborhood with more varied outside influences.