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The Oddibles ~ LIVE ~ Chinatown

Taking a breather from Superbunker’s Swap Meet at Beta-Level, Taco plowed across the street to check in with Grand Star and we’re glad we did. Many might know Grand Star for their bangin’ Firecracker Fridays, which focus mostly on spins of blazing hip hop for a packed crowd.

Grand Star introduced us to an amazing new talent Saturday night, The Oddibles, who represent Gardena. Climbing the stairs to the second floor, we heard some dude rapping as fast as lightning, with a style somewhere between Atmosphere and Pharohe Monch, utilizing both the clarity and speed of those two artists’ respective abilities.

The voice’s owner was C-Spills, who has an incredible ability to flow fast and tight. His ryhme partner SirReal is equally gifted, with a slightly more aggressive stance that was punctuated by the semi-auto on his white tee. Their DJ Steadfast has gnarly cuts and wicked beats, as their other mixmaster DJ Soulspeak took some time to pound on his electric bass. Guest performer InnaStella kept her tight corn-rows down in a drum machine, tapping out sick live drum breaks on the MPC2000.

If people could get over the perceived novelty of non-black rappers, these kids would already be big. Eminem big. If fresh live rap that pushes the envelope of creativity does it for you, you’d best go check them out opening for Mr. Hyde & 2Mex at Chinky Eyed Productions 5th Year Anniversary on August 24th at Hollywood’s Knitting Factory. These guys have a future and it’s blindingly bright.

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This entry was written by Hadley and posted on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 8:09 AM and filed under Live Music.

Comments (8) to “The Oddibles ~ LIVE ~ Chinatown”

Justin wrote:

Yea the show was sick.. C-Spills and SirReal are both dope MC’s, with DJ Steadfast on the tables and DJ Soulspeak on the MPC they know how to throw a great show. I have seen all their shows and those of you who haven’t seen any, need to go check them out!!

Posted on 01-Aug-06 at 11:17 am | Permalink
Sol Han wrote:

i’m so pumped up about these guys. i remember the college days when i used to attempt to freestyle w/ chris and i used to think, this guys shouldn’t waste his skills on beating guys like me in a freestyle battle. i’m glad to see that he’s following his dream and passion. flow on!!!!

Posted on 01-Aug-06 at 12:12 pm | Permalink
Lo wrote:

The beats were on point, and so were the lyrics. After watching them live, I’m thinking these guys are for real now. They’re real lyrical terrorists on the mic. They just need to lay down some tracks.

Posted on 01-Aug-06 at 4:34 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:

Yeea, Taco! Nice article. That show was dope! C-Spills! Mad love for InnaStella, too. That was hot. See you at the Knitting Factory!

Posted on 01-Aug-06 at 5:49 pm | Permalink
Jason wrote:

simply put, oddibles are dope. no offense, but they make atmosphere and pharoahe monch sound weak.

Posted on 02-Aug-06 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
eddie wrote:

The show was ridiculous. Every time i see these guys they bump their game up a notch. The live bass guitar and InnaStella on the beat machine was tite. And by “tite” i mean FREAKING TITE YO!

Posted on 03-Aug-06 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
chris wrote:

yo this is in response to jason’s comment: yes indeed, the oddibles are sick as fuck but DON’T ever disrespect one of the most dopest innovative emcees that is the Pharoahe. learn your hip hop son! god bless..

Posted on 05-Aug-06 at 5:51 am | Permalink
Morre' wrote:

I said Hell Yeeahh! The Oddibles is doin’ it. I’ve showed up to some of their gigs and I was blown away by SirReals ability to flow and their beats are bangin’ so tight. These Fellas need
to come on with the cd so I can bump their tracks on the streets of LA. You guys keep at it cause it’s on.

Posted on 06-Aug-06 at 2:54 pm | Permalink