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Sat August 29th was a tribute to Scott La Rock at the Fillmore Irving Plaza New York City.  Show featured Old Skool artists, Kool Moe D, Just Ice, Grand Daddy IU and of course KRS 1.  The show was awesome and an inspiration to the new skool aritsts.  Too see these older MC’s up on stage doing there thing.  Giving a show of more than just a bunch of people jumping up and down on stage ad libbing the song.  Funniest thing was to see Kool Moe D with his old crew member from the Trecherous 3, LA Sunshine and the Mighty Mike C from the Fearless 4 up there perfoming together.  Mike C performed Kool Moe D, Trecherous 3 and Fearless 4 songs, pretty impressive.  Kool Moe D was way to overweight though, check out the photos from the concert.  Grand Daddy IU did his thing nothing to spectacular though, but he still got rhymes and perfomed his old hits to a tee.  Just Ice still has a lot of energy just like he did back in the day.  It was great to see him performing all of his back in the day hits.  Latoya was one of my favorites from back then.  He still looks great for his age, still has the long locks t00.  KRS 1 was murder up there on the stage, he seems to not have lost a step on the stage.  You still see his energy and feel his passion while performing his past songs and reciting poetry.  KRS 1 had a Hip Hop history lesson for us to remenice about.  He rocked the house like no other that night.  The tribute to Scott La Rock was a great thing, remembering how Scott and KRS1 met and how Just Ice and KRS were in the shelter together and Scott was their counselor.  Made me get musshy inside.  The bad thing was everyone wanted to come to the concert and no one wanted to pay.  There was almost a fight because the promoter didn’t want to let someone’s whole posse into the concert for free.  Man where’s the support for the old skool, I guess there won’t be anymore of these concerts going on.  But this one was great, DJ Red Alert hosted, DJ Jazzy Joyce was on the tables, DJ Kool Herc was in the house showing his support.  It was great to see showmanship in Hip Hop from others besides, Jay Z, the Roots and others who give a show and not just show up and rap.  I wish 50 Cent was there because even though he’s stepping up his rap game a bit, I still can’t stand his stage show.  Rock on old skool, show ‘em how it’s done!