q-tip & the cool kids @ mezzanine

first up: http://www.coolxkids.com/. how did i miss this when i was living in chicago? immediately bought album.

and then: http://www.myspace.com/qtip. so everyone's dancing, q-tip is flowing some medley'd tribe tunes, and he breaks into check the rhime. he dips the mic into the crowd, you know, just for the small parts, the you're-on-point parts, and this girl starts rapping all the phife bits like you wouldn't believe. tip loves it, the crowd loves it, and when he asks her who she is and she screams serena ____ from east oakland!! the crowd roars and hands go up to point towards her, arms and bodies bouncing, awesomely approving. and then tip gets sort of wistful and he's like, i wish phife were here and then, suddenly, there's phife.

great show.