Paris was the first show Doom did in Europe. First time after 20 years of career. After this one, he did Amsterdam and London. I’m really proud I’ve been part of this show and help a bit Free Your Funk that organized this show. They (Emmanuel Forlani and Denis Jelen = Free your funk) did a great job, done everything to make this show work. Of course as most of you know, Doom likes to send unknown people on stage with the mask on. That was the main question : Will the real Doom be on stage or not. The sound engineer and the manager were really relax “Don’t worry it will be him“. And we were as well relax when we finally saw the real Doom around, late in the afternoon.

Doom came 20 minutes before the show and stayed on stage 1 hour with two encore and left immediately after the show. I know some people were disappointed but I think that the real fan of Doom was really happy. Doom IS NOT a great performer anyway + he usually does not give a f*** and sends someone else on stage instead of going on stage, or sometimes he sends someone on for 30 minutes and then comes and does like 3 songs and leaves. It was the real Doom for an hour, did lot of his classical.
The only bad point for me was that : HE DID NOT DO RHINESTONES COWBOY ! I told him I really wanted this song, he told me “oh really, I will do it in Amsterdam and London then”, hope he did for the people that were at those shows, this songs is def my fav.

Pic by Mass De La Masscorporation

Pic by Mass De La Masscorporation

Here is the video of the freestyle that ended the great show w/ Blu, Exile, Diamond District, Fashawn and Trek Life and the MPC live courtesy of Mr Mass + the great pictures he took.
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Enjoy.

Free Your Funk event put together a good show with a GREAT line up : Diamond District, Trek Life, Fashawn, Blu and Exile… Dj Babu came by to enjoy the show as well as Dela (great french producer). Trek Life went first (unfortunately I don’t have videos) then Diamond District with lot of good energies, Oddisee even played some new beats, Fashawn and Exile came after, Fashawn is really full of energy and finally Blu, one of my favorite emcees of the new generation. A nice freestyle w/ all the artists ended up the show perfectly (videos coming next week) and a live MPC by Exile!

Pictures by Gustav.

Pictures by Gustav.

Pictures by Gustav.

Pictures by Gustav.

This is the end of the trilogy of post about this event (a Free Your Funk Event). Here are the pictures took by the french photographer, Emmanuelle Tricoire©.

Emmanuelle Tricoire’s blog : here.

Peanut Butter Wolf came after them for the “Stone Throw party“. He did a video dj mix, really really good, I loved it ! Never seen that before! Dam-Funk, the boogie funk style went on stage with his red glasses to bless the stage with some good music!
It was a good evening with lot of good artists !

Pictures by Remy Bourdeau.