The second night of SXSW I went back to the Red Bull Moon Tower to check out Lady Sov.  Unfortunately my friend passed out on the way there and was lying face down in his fan.  His roommate and I checked out the scene but decided we should probably get my friend back home and skip Lady Sov.  When we got there though, The Beatards were about to go on.  My friend Shira told me to check them out, so we decided to stay for a few songs… I am glad I did.  They did some old school hip hop stuff, playing off old lines and beats but doing new and fun stuff with it.  I was pretty into it.  They are from Brooklyn, so I am not sure why I haven’t heard of them before but I gotta check them out again soon.  When I was in college I was going to start a ’79 style hip hop group.  My style was pretty much based on only Kurtis Blow.  We wrote three songs I think.  One of them was about the 4th of July because by the early 80’s it was sooo played out to be rapping about Christmas, so we had to change it up.  We also had a song introducing the crew… “Everybody in the place, just gather ’round cause The Party Rock 3 are new in town.  We came rock a mic and bust a rhyme, we can rock any party, any place, anytime.”  Legendary.   The Beatards probably take themselves a little more seriously than we did…

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