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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Contest Win Tickets to Clipse!
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:55 PM
To celebrate three years of business—and a rear balcony that refuses to collapse—Rotture is pulling out all the stops next week. Free shows, big names, birthday clowns, but the real treat is how they have somehow talked Clipse into taking the stage on Friday, September 11th (never forget). Clipse at Rotture? Holy fuckballs.
Clipse is big deal. They drive Ferraris, have Pharrell and Kanye on their friends and family plan, and dropped one of the decade's most respected releases in Hell Hath No Fury. In fact, the only thing better than seeing an intimate show from Clipse is doing it for free. That's where we come in.
We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to this show, so the best two comments below on why you deserve to spend some time with Malice and Pusha T will be declared as winners. Comments must be posted by tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm. If you don't hear from us by this weekend, you might want to try and snatch up the few tickets still available. Good luck.
1
when i listen to clipse i think about what i do that could relate to selling/making crack/crack records. except what i do is legit. and i didn't learn it from my grandmother, i didn't find stacks of dirty money in the closet, and i'm not from virginia. but it's a hustle. what do i do that could be considered a hustle? what do i do that i feel bad about doing to better myself monetarily? what kind of behavior is comparable to going to the club with 8 friends, have a bottle count of around 16, upwards to 100 shots of patron, standing in the vip, standing on couches, champagne spilling like a fountain, and spending about a dime at the bar-but who is really counting?. i mean, i don't actually have a gang or a group of haters to hate my gang, but i would shout out to them all if i did. i don't even know what "fishscale" actually means, but when i hear it, i know that i keep the devil below me, get money to show, but to do that i will have to escalate my work. i welcome objective criticism (haters). i don't have guns or the papers to conceal them, but i know some people that do. i havent touched a triple beam scale since high school bio-chem class, i still listen to this "lifestyle music".
sure, i might have gucci houndstooth pants, i might have my own tshirt company, but i don't sell crack. i'll leave that to the clipes.
sure, i might have gucci houndstooth pants, i might have my own tshirt company, but i don't sell crack. i'll leave that to the clipes.
4
Uhhhhh, my friend just e-mailed me this link. I'm just gonna give you reasons to give me the tix from the top of my head--enlightened, stream of consciousness kind of shit, like Matishayahoo.
1) I read the post, and my hands started to sweat. I figure this is a result of pure excitement, since I don't usually have a hand-sweating problem.
2) The show is at Rotture, which is really weird. I met an-ex girlfriend there a year and a half ago. She's now dating a black-belt, who I call Bruce. Fuck that guy. Hands=still kinda sweaty.
3) I drove around NE PDX a few months ago to christen the summer and listened to "Trill" over and over again. It just felt right. It felt right, even though I drive a Ford Focus. I just turned 30.
4) If I were a really successful MC or a drug dealer, or even better, a really successful rapper-drug dealer, I would have someone take out Malice so I could have his name. Malice. Fucking MALICE! I'd be like when a guy gets traded to a new team and then buys a jersey number from a rookie, except Malice isn't a rookie, so he probably wouldn't sell it, we'd just have rap-off and then he'd shoot me with poisonous darts and then a gun with a silencer. Still, I'd really try hard for that name.
5) The Clipse singlehandedly, or doublehandedly make Justin Timberlake pretty tough to fuck with. I remember watching the MTV music awards when they came out with him, and tried to imagine the pitch meeting..."Hi, is this Pusha T? Yeah, this is Justin Timberlake...hello?...Pusha...?"
6) Clipse at Rotture. Springsteen at Marathon Tavern. Mariah Carey at The Know. Method Man at Noble Rot. Andrew Bird at the Sandy Hut. Tony Bennett at Tube. Nas at the White Eagle. These would also induce sweaty hands of anticipation, but are highly unlikely.
7) "No hotta, flow droppa, since poppa..."
8) I bought doubles of "Mr. Me Too" on vinyl when I lived alone in a cabin in Alaska. Needless to say, it was a really lonely, super gangsta winter in my cabin in Alaska.
9) I just looked outside and saw a guy rollerblading down the street with his dog, on his cellphone. That's Portland. Clipse at Rotture is not Portland, but evidently it is happening, so I guess it is Portland, which re-enforces why I love Portland.
Oh wait, am I supposed to pitch why I want to spend TIME with them? Different angles to take on this one:
a) the pity route--I was recently laid off from my position working with homeless youth. I'll be fine, but, since this is the pity route, I'd like you to feel really bad for me and then give me time with Malice and Pusha T.
b) The capitalism route--I actually bought Hell Hath No Fury--digitally and on vinyl, even though I could have geeked out and just downloaded it. Full disclosure--okay, I downloaded it, but then couldn't get all the songs, felt bad, and bought the album proper.
c) The future namedropping prowess route--The only other musician of any import I've ever spent a few minutes with was Solomon Burke, and if I added the Clipse to the canon, I think I'd be pretty set from here on out.
Best,
Benjamin P.
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1) I read the post, and my hands started to sweat. I figure this is a result of pure excitement, since I don't usually have a hand-sweating problem.
2) The show is at Rotture, which is really weird. I met an-ex girlfriend there a year and a half ago. She's now dating a black-belt, who I call Bruce. Fuck that guy. Hands=still kinda sweaty.
3) I drove around NE PDX a few months ago to christen the summer and listened to "Trill" over and over again. It just felt right. It felt right, even though I drive a Ford Focus. I just turned 30.
4) If I were a really successful MC or a drug dealer, or even better, a really successful rapper-drug dealer, I would have someone take out Malice so I could have his name. Malice. Fucking MALICE! I'd be like when a guy gets traded to a new team and then buys a jersey number from a rookie, except Malice isn't a rookie, so he probably wouldn't sell it, we'd just have rap-off and then he'd shoot me with poisonous darts and then a gun with a silencer. Still, I'd really try hard for that name.
5) The Clipse singlehandedly, or doublehandedly make Justin Timberlake pretty tough to fuck with. I remember watching the MTV music awards when they came out with him, and tried to imagine the pitch meeting..."Hi, is this Pusha T? Yeah, this is Justin Timberlake...hello?...Pusha...?"
6) Clipse at Rotture. Springsteen at Marathon Tavern. Mariah Carey at The Know. Method Man at Noble Rot. Andrew Bird at the Sandy Hut. Tony Bennett at Tube. Nas at the White Eagle. These would also induce sweaty hands of anticipation, but are highly unlikely.
7) "No hotta, flow droppa, since poppa..."
8) I bought doubles of "Mr. Me Too" on vinyl when I lived alone in a cabin in Alaska. Needless to say, it was a really lonely, super gangsta winter in my cabin in Alaska.
9) I just looked outside and saw a guy rollerblading down the street with his dog, on his cellphone. That's Portland. Clipse at Rotture is not Portland, but evidently it is happening, so I guess it is Portland, which re-enforces why I love Portland.
Oh wait, am I supposed to pitch why I want to spend TIME with them? Different angles to take on this one:
a) the pity route--I was recently laid off from my position working with homeless youth. I'll be fine, but, since this is the pity route, I'd like you to feel really bad for me and then give me time with Malice and Pusha T.
b) The capitalism route--I actually bought Hell Hath No Fury--digitally and on vinyl, even though I could have geeked out and just downloaded it. Full disclosure--okay, I downloaded it, but then couldn't get all the songs, felt bad, and bought the album proper.
c) The future namedropping prowess route--The only other musician of any import I've ever spent a few minutes with was Solomon Burke, and if I added the Clipse to the canon, I think I'd be pretty set from here on out.
Best,
Benjamin P.
5
I want free clipse tickets because I cannot afford to see them otherwise. I listen to the Hell Hath No Fury CD regularly while taking the bus to my minimum wage job. yep. I rock that discman with my geniune store copy of that CD. Not to sound like a sanctimonious anachronistic douche -- I could have afforded an iPod at one point in my life and I do steal plenty of music. If I didn't have to come up with rent money, I would have gotten my tix already.
I also wanna know if they'll change that line "coke money cleaned through merrill lynch" since like, merrill lynch doesn't exist anymore. or it doesn't exist as an independent, trustworthy organization you would launder your drug and other monies through. not that it should be changed, that song is a product of those pre-recession times, fucking surreal, heady and ridiculous. but it was good while it lasted, eh?
also, Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill.
I also wanna know if they'll change that line "coke money cleaned through merrill lynch" since like, merrill lynch doesn't exist anymore. or it doesn't exist as an independent, trustworthy organization you would launder your drug and other monies through. not that it should be changed, that song is a product of those pre-recession times, fucking surreal, heady and ridiculous. but it was good while it lasted, eh?
also, Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill.
6
I deserve those clipse tix because what goes better with Clipse, Ferraris, Kanye and Pharrell than gold speedos, gold rocket launchers and a drop top PT Cruiser?
hit this link at your own risk.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2448/387978…
Please gimme dem tix.
hit this link at your own risk.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2448/387978…
Please gimme dem tix.
8
I should use those clipse tickets because as one of the rare ethnic minorities in Portland, I have to show up and show them that "See, the rumors of lack of diversity arent true!". Also, I love them and will seriously be dancing my ass off the entire time. I'm a bit of a dance floor party starter and once one chick starts shaking it, pretty soon the whole place is moving.
9
I deserve these Clipse tickets because mama's been having the most financially stressful three weeks ever and most likely won't make it to the show unless I get it for cheap... or just for free. I've been in a fan since Lord Willin' and I listen to Trill at least twenty times a day-- I swear this quota's for real.
11
Hell Hath No Fury like a 20 something broke pre-med white girl from vanilla valley Colorado being deprived of tickets to go see her favorite rap duo!
12
You should give me these tickets because Clipse is THE group that convinced me that rap does not suck, and instead, the most mind-blowingly awesome expression of musical genius. Please do not deprive me of the chance to witness my inspiration close range.
14
and why has nobody mentioned the upcoming release of "til the casket drops"?? sounds like portland mercury reading-hip hop listeners are either frontin or slippin or takin a nap on what's good.
i'm good.
i'm good.
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