URBAN VAULT UK
The Doctor’s Orders presents Detroit producer Apollo Brown & Rapper Big Pooh this May at Cargo, London
Fish & Chips, Rum & Coke, Ant & Dec. There are certain things that just fit together. Apollo Brown and Rapper Big Pooh are just that.
Detroit producer Apollo Brown has made a name for himself as one of Hip Hop’s most legendary new producers while maintaining a golden era sound. His production credits are a who’s who of Hip Hop greats from Danny Brown to Ghostface Killah, Ras Kass to Westside Gunn. Even Chance the Rapper used a pair of Apollo beats on his debut mixtapes. Known for bringing the best out of musicians, Apollo has a knack for making timeless classics.
Rapper Big Pooh made his name as one-third of the incredible Little Brother alongside Phonte and 9th Wonder, so he knows a little something about great producers. While Pooh sketches in vivid detail, Apollo Brown supplies the canvas. The Detroit-via-Grand Rapids alchemist chops classic soul samples and scratches hooks into bangers—head nodding and hard, but still beautiful. The holy trinity of DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and J Dilla supply divine inspiration.
As Pooh spits on ‘Candlelight’
“This is what they call boom-bap/when they try to find what’s in that backpack”.
What’s in that backpack is as intangible as the light in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. It’s a main vein of discontent and mother lode of inspiration. Over a gorgeous antique loop on ‘Augmentation’, Pooh sketches the duality of the greed-choked world we inhabit, and the sacred feelings he’s bringing back. On ‘Stop’, he harrowingly chronicles a racist police stop and in the process eulogizes Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, and those exterminated by brutal law enforcement goons. ‘Promise Land’ paints a haunting picture of those ‘hanging by gold ropes’.
Wednesday 08th May 2019
(7:00 PM – 11:00 PM)
TICKETS:
Earlybird – 15.00 (+£1.50 BF)
General Admission – £17.50 (+£1.70 BF)
(NO ID = NO ENTRY)
Cargo,
Rivington Street,
Shoreditch,
London
EC2A 3AY
https://thedoctorsorders.com
https://twitter.com/ApolloBrown
https://twitter.com/RapperBigPooh