Big Pooh of Little Brother @ Crown Room | One Hour FREE Drinks, Hip Hop
February 8, 2012 — PDXPIPELINEFrom our partners at Lifeisaparty:
Big Pooh w/ Chaundon, DJ Skillz, Raashan Ahmad, The Love Loungers
Saturday, February 11
9:30 p.m. | $5 | 21+
One Hour of FREE Drinks
@ Crown Room, 205 NW Fourth Avenue
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The brand of Little Brother is one of the most recognizable names in hip hop. With both Phonte and 9th Wonder dropping LP's that lived up to the expectations that The Listening built eight years ago, Rapper Big Pooh finished off the year with Dirty Pretty Things. For Pooh, this is his moment to escape the Little Brother umbrella while adding to its legacy; Dirty Pretty Things is an ambitious effort in every regard.
Pooh refuses to cater to pack back or commercial audiences and instead creates a project that draws from both. At times it mimics its namesake and ventures away from its potential, but when it succeeds (¬Å“They Say¬Â or ¬Å“Right With You¬Â) it's as good as anything you'll hear all year.
Pooh’s ability to be light-hearted but completely genuine makes him one of the more endearing emcees in the culture. On “Real Love” – a song written about his incarcerated brother – he spits, ¬Å“Little Brother ain't the little brother any longer/ Big brother being absent made me much stronger.¬Â It’s a line like this that a lesser emcee or personality would be accused of taking a subtle shot at his former group, but Pooh makes it a dope tribute to a sibling.
¬Å“Free¬Â hears him deliver some of his best work over a dope Siege Monstrosity beat, while speaking the language of everyman. No one can argue with the class of a hook like, ¬Å“I just want to be free/ at the end of the day I can only be me/ open up your eyes and maybe you'll see that I am who I'm dying to be¬Â but a line like ¬Å“some things you'll never know if you spend all day hearing only 10 songs¬Â remind us why Pooh is so important. When Pooh is in his element, he has the ability to say the things that we all wish we could.
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