What is with America's youth today? Isn't our post-Sept. 11 nation supposed to be rebuilding morality?
Evidently we're nowhere near that, judging from the sights and sounds of the irreverent D12 tour, with guests Bionic Jive and Kottonmouth Kings, who took stage Tuesday at the TLA. There were no positive role models in attendance--only an abundance of profanity, pro-drug chants and fully-extended middle fingers waving frenetically through the air.
The night seemed to uphold a confused musical aesthetic; was this a hip hop or metal show? Bionic Jive, with two MCs backed by a hard rocking band, seemed to fit the show's befuddled mold with its rap-meets-mosh style, while the half-punk, half-backwards-hat-wearing Kottonmouth Kings followed with a lengthy set dedicated to their venerated Marijuana plants.
Finally, headliner D12 took the stage, one by one in a calculated lyrical onslaught. Performing tracks from its commercially successful debut Devil's Night, the group seemed to command the crowd quite well with skits, pranks and a highly structured show. Even without the group's mentor and most talented member, the ever popular Eminem, who received the night's loudest cheer upon the mere mention of his name, D12 carried a tremendous stage presence, finishing off the night by taking ecstasy on stage.
D12 and company lived up to its preached ideals throughout the show, which ought to be alarming considering the crowd's enthusiastic reaction.
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