Buckshot: “Fuck Rock the Bells Tour” (Audio)

Buckshot is a bit upset with how Rock the Bells is being run. Mainly because of the double stage and performance order.

*clears throat….

FUCK LIVE NATION.

28 Responses to “Buckshot: “Fuck Rock the Bells Tour” (Audio)”

  1. This is why rap festivals can’t happen. Ego. OMG 2 STAGES!!! Its a summer festival get over it. Your time is over Buckshot, you should be glad to be anywhere on the lineup for RtheBells. The small audience you did have was there to pay respect to you; a hiphop legend. Stop your bitching and be glad for the people that did show.

    Clinsy said this on July 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

  2. say what you will but i feel where he’s comin from. not even in terms of ego. when i was there sunday it just sucked at times to know that if i go to one stage, i’m missing somebody i wanna see on the other.

    kingjaffejoffer said this on July 20th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

  3. This is why the denver stop is kinda weird compared to the others cuz theres only one stage so they have to mix the “rock the bells” stage & the “Paid Dues” stage but they cut at least half the number of who is performing which is wack because if that was the deal the tickets should be cheaper then the other stops since they arnt offering what they say they are offering on the website.

    Sylent said this on July 20th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

  4. agree w/ clinsy.

    the concept of multiple staged music festivals wasn’t invented by live nation. this is just an ego check. these festivals are designed for the fans not the artists.

    dylanmichael said this on July 20th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

  5. i swear some rappers are still stuck in the nineties and can’t get over da fact that they not on top anymore…im a big fan of blackmoon but lets face it, there won’t be anther “enta da stage”…old skool rappers are tryin to hard to adapt to the new generation, they need to fallback and let da new niggaz get their shine…everyone still respect yall and remember wat yall did for the rap game so jus chill and dat goes fro all of em not jus buckshot

    jcrunk said this on July 20th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

  6. “the concept of multiple staged music festivals wasn’t invented by live nation. ”

    i never said that. but after the fuckery in toronto i just dont fuck with live nation.

    Shake said this on July 20th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

  7. y is it that when someone voices their opinion and they happen to be a veteran people always want to attack his legacy and say his time is up?

    Myth_Seeker said this on July 20th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

  8. “…but after the fuckery in toronto i just dont fuck with live nation.”

    fair enough. but issues with what happened at one leg of the tour is different than issues with the format of the tour itself. having to pick between two different acts is different that having to deal w/ incompetent staff.

    dylanmichael said this on July 20th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

  9. Thank you Buckshot. Real talk. I hate paying over a hundred dollars (not including hotels and all the other shit)every year, and then I still miss someone I wanted to see because there are two seperate stages.

    Nothing against Slaughterhouse, but they don’t even have an album out, they need to pay their dues before earning a top spot. Not be entitled to it because they might be the next thing.

    One way to solve this problem is to split up the artists and have the show for two different days. If Live Nation really wants to do this for the fans like they have in all their quotes, they’d do that.

    mufucka said this on July 20th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

  10. krs = legend, buckshot = 1/4 legend. still >>>>>>>> slaughterhouse

    not saying that has to be the comparison but still….

    anyways i been at the NYC show two years back and the Boston show and let me tell you…..the 80s and 90s is done son. EPMD rocked and NOBODY CARED. it was fucked up. RAKIM rocked and a FEW cared.

    these over 40 cats need to chill the fuck out and stay in their lane. unfortunately hip hop doesn’t have the mind state that other musical genres have because we are so focused on what is NEW what is HOT what is the latest greatest punchline/beat/beef/etc. like mick jagger (of Rolling Stones for you lames) walks into a room he’s fucking golden regardless of when the last LP came out cause he’s a legend. Rappers don’t get that dap. it’s just not in the cards i guess.

    truthbetold said this on July 20th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

  11. I was at Jones Beach in new york i understand where Buck is coming from me and my brother where saying the same thing like why do they have to split the stages up like that? the artist times where all screwed up and i had to decide if i wanted to see Common more or Buckshot i hated that shit. I saw Buckshot even tho you could tell he was mad he still put on a great show.PEACE!!

    ProjectZero said this on July 20th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

  12. BUCKSHOT IS 100% RIGHT!!

    The event is fooling the fans. When a fan sees the advertising for let’s sy 5 out 10 acts he likes then he expects to see what he paid his monsy for. Y’all always stuck in this “old” and “young” bullshit.

    It has NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE! Stop using age for a cop out when things are wrong and someone speaks about it. This is the only genre where some fans claim to be fans but openly don’t like legends or easily discredit legends. You go to Rock & Roll music, Classic Rock, Jazz, Soul, R&B, Contempary R&B, Country, Classical, Blue Grass, Electro, Techno and more there is NEVER a disute on age being a issue for liking music and respect their legends.

    BUT NOT HIP-HOP WE OPENLY DISS ALL OUR LEGENDS, CALL THEM WASHED UP, SAY “FUCK YOU” BUT WHEN THE DJ PLAYS THEIR SHIT IN THE CLUB YOU STILL DANCE TO THEIR “OLD WASHED UP MUSIC”

    Again this has nothing to do with age. It has to do with them promoting the event for all the people invited on the bill correctly. Because I would love to still see the new cats now when I get old the same way I do now.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

  13. Oh and lastly, how is this event designed for the fans when you have 2 different acts performing at the same time. That means they have to choose between who’d they’d rather miss at that time.

    That’s not what a fan wants. You mean to tell me if 2 good rappers are performing at the same time you’d want to miss one and see the other? Why not having the opportunity of seeing all the acts and then if the fan chooses to miss an act on his/her own he/she can (all rhetorical questions)?

    This event is like displaying 40 pairs of sneakers, only 20 choices and giving the person a small window of time to view all the sneakers before they can make their 20 purchases out of the 40.

    SO NO THIS EVENT IS NOT GEARED FOR THE FANS.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 20th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

  14. “Again this has nothing to do with age.”

    to an extent. i’d pay to go see buckshot alone as well as other veterans. the respect thing in hiphop is a tricky one, especially compared to other genres cause hiphop culture markets itself as a kind of hyperbolized masculinity; not so much the case in rock&roll, jazz, soul, etc.

    so Buckshot complains cause they’re not on the mainstage and right in front of their eyes they’re seeing fans go to another stage. Understandable, but thats the nature of the beast.

    This is how music festivals (conceptually) work around the world. Pack a lot of artists onto as many stages in the same venue. You could spread it over a couple more hours or days, but we’d probably be stuck footing that extra bill.

    Hiphop is getting in to the music festival format tho (jay z:glastonbury, kanye:bonaroo). still working out the kinks.

    dylanmichael said this on July 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

  15. “This event is like displaying 40 pairs of sneakers, only 20 choices and giving the person a small window of time to view all the sneakers before they can make their 20 purchases out of the 40.”

    …as opposed to only having the option of one pair at one event. its up to you to coordinate which artists you want to see & for how long. but the point is you’ve got a shitload of choices as opposed to an opening act & headliner and thats it.

    you’d rather pack 30+ acts on to ONE stage? think that through. really think about that.

    dylanmichael said this on July 20th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

  16. Im split on this, because it’s fucked up that you have to choose between two acts that you might really like, but then, you have to understand that the people that plan the tour realize they only have so much time per concert, so in order for each act to get a decent set, they have to use two stages.

    On the age in different genres thing, I completely disagree. (maybe in Jazz and blues it’s still like that, but those arent the popular genres anymore)
    Rock is just like hip hop when it comes to trying to be hip and new. Rock has it’ indie fans/people tht respect the old school (which in hip hop would be the underground followers/ya’ll if Im not mistaken) but like hip hop, it has the wannabe new and hip crowd that shun the oldschool and only like bullshit like brokencyde, 3OH!3, Breath Carolina, etc. (to us that would be soulja boy, gucci mane, birdman, etc.)

    so really, it’s not that hip hops the only genre where there’s a need for the new and the hip, it’s all popular music, particularly anything the mainstream youth is into.

    and for every culture, there is a counterculture, which in terms of music is labeled “alternative” (word to De La Soul and The Ramones)

    JL said this on July 20th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

  17. ^^^
    @dylanmichael
    I never said what the option was but this option sucks PERIOD!

    If that’s the case make the act like a few different days or something of that nature. Something like woodstock.

    I just don’t like the Line (aka lie) they use that ‘it’s for the fans’

    When in reality it’s a way to get multitudes of fans of several different artists to be in one place at the same time which generates money and/or polularity for their brand to become bigger in the future.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 20th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

  18. Lastly IS only Hip-Hop when it comes to age.

    In these other genre’s they promote youthful thinking but the music last. They may not be as relevant but you’d never see the blatant disrespect from their fans like we do in hip-hop. Also, in these other genres they still release albums and do tours and are relevant on a medium scale. In hip-hop if you ain’t mainstream they tell you to retire. Why? If you still got a fanbase and it’s your career (finicail way of living)?

    So should the late great Michael Jackson, U2, Modanna, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springstein, Cher, Tina Turner, every Marley (offsprings from Bob Marley),Poison, Celine Deon, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige,Prince and more who still can release music and tour around the world should retire right (rhetorical)?

    A lot of these so called “old rappers” are in their 30′s! Damn how many people in this country actually retire in their 30′s (rhetorical) and how many can actually retire if they wanted to in their 30′s (rhetorical)? Very, very, very FEW! Give them a break. I like the young cats my age rock, even younger than me and old heads rock as long as they still good. This ain’t basketball. You’re using ya mental talent more than ya physical in rap.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 20th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

  19. *Lastly it IS only Hip-Hop when it comes to age.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 20th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

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  21. @ Clinsy and Jcrunk… Why doesn’t Buckshot have the right to speak his piece? #1 He is top five performers of ALL time, #2 He earned his keep, nobody in live nation or guerilla union is tryna help anyone out. They’re fans and capitalists. They benefit either way! They don’t bring you on tour if you’re not makin them money. Why are hip-hoppers the only people who dispose of our pioneers jus cause? Buckshot is honestly just as good today as he was in 93! You say you’re a fan of Blackmoon?! I’ve seen Buckshot AND the rest of the BCC perform at least 6 or 7 times. And would pay the admission of RTB Jus to see them perform a full set again. That’s not my corny attempt at braggin. That’s jus to say BCC, WU, PAC, BDK, RAKIM, LL, LYTE, BIGGIE… These are not jus posters to hang up or names to drop. These are our Frank Sinatras and Barbara Streissands. You don’t decide when they’re done! They do! And if we’re lucky, we get to witness the dopeness as long as they allow us to!

    Damn, thas a lot of typin for some shit no one’s gonna read. HAHA!

    Riddlah51 said this on July 21st, 2009 at 12:10 am

  22. ^^
    I read it! It made sense. I agree completely.
    I said the same/similiar thing in my comment(s) above.

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 21st, 2009 at 1:42 am

  23. I disagree completely about the scheduling problems, at least talking about the Jones Beach show. So many acts were late starting on the main stage you could still go to the Paid Dues and then come back without missing much. I was over at the Second Stage, saw Slaughterhouse, ran back caught most of Big Boi, went back over saw Slum Village and shook hands with Elzhi. Joell Ortiz was out shaking hands and taking photographs with the fans.
    It is a one day show and you can’t pack all those artists onto one stage, especially when some of them are gonna show up late and mess everything up (Reflection Eternal). I thought the Paid Dues stage was a good opportunity for the fans.

    Pete Dee said this on July 21st, 2009 at 4:35 am

  24. 2 stages is wack. i didn’t even get to see RZA. PISSED.

    H said this on July 21st, 2009 at 4:47 am

  25. I am goin to SF RTB They better figure there shit out

    Nymblepaws said this on July 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm

  26. So basically you’re saying that it’s good because people show up late… huh.

    If the shit was organized I’m sure artist would show up in a timely manner. These artist get a “round about time” to show up. They’re not getting a certain show time to perform. So of course they arrive at a “round about time”

    SHOWMAN3000 said this on July 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm

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    Joshua said this on July 21st, 2009 at 2:56 pm

  28. to jcrunk
    who cares if rappers are still stuck in the 90′s. Although their music is old, it’s the only TRUE hip-hop we have, who cares if they’re not on top today, their music is gold, and it’s always valued. It’s this kind of music that makes you think about life and be more optimistic. They are not trying to be like others of this period of time, that’s being a sell out.
    Rock the Bells, 2008, in L.A. was amazing, with inspiring artists and groups such as Murs, DE LA SOUL, TRIBE CALLED QUEST were there. Im going to RTB of this year, thats in a week, hopefully it’s good and I cannot wait to see 9th wonder, so i heard he was going to perform.

    u.g.headfonez said this on August 1st, 2009 at 8:46 pm

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