

preferred seating, tours and meet and greet packages). Travel Insurance CANNOT be purchased until reservation has been completed. Please be sure to purchase Travel/Trip Protection Insurance based upon the TOTAL COST of your travel package, including: resort stay/any add-ons, (i.e. THEREFORE, THE PURCHASE OF TRAVEL INSURANCE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Any and all tickets, upgrades, excursions and/or activities reserved, booked, and/or otherwise selected through the guest portal for this festival are final, non-refundable, and non-transferable. If you fail, for any reason, to make a payment, you may void your package and purchase and you will not receive a refund. NO REFUNDS, no exchanges, no resale, and not redeemable for cash. That’s where the spirit of that was from,” he said.All sales, purchases, and partial purchases are final, NON-REFUNDABLE, and non-transferable. So for me, it was a way to feel powerful, a way to feel important, a way to feel like I mattered to somebody.


And it felt like nobody cared about them. There was someone on the corner, you never hear from the guy ever again, and it was over. In my neighborhood where we grew up at, people were invisible. I was just so hungry and I didn’t want to be invisible. It’s what fueled his motivation to become one of the best MCs of his era. Like so many Black teenagers, he hungered to be seen and recognized as a whole person, and to never be forgotten, as he watched what happened to many of his peers from his native Queens borough in New York City. LL, real name Todd Smith, was a young and volatile teenager akin to his distant successor Chief Keef in the mid-’80s. With Common, I thought he was a hell of a songwriter, and I just thought he had a way of bringing a certain level of confidence and creativity to all his music,” said LL. Their presentation was so unique and absolutely amazing as a group. “I always thought Bone Thugs was super creative. Fresh and Slick Rick - the tour is also bringing rap legends from across the South, Midwest and West Coast, with Chicago playing host for hometown hero Common and Grammy Award winners Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the first and biggest rap group to come out of Cleveland.ĭuring his prime in the ’90s and 2000s, LL watched both Bone Thugs and Common rise from two entirely different Midwest cultures and carve out their respective legacies through their originality, top-tier songwriting and creative approaches that were uniquely different from their East and West Coast counterparts at the time. It’s going to be closer to what we did on the Grammys, but on a whole ’nother level,” said LL.Īlong with the legendary pioneers he’s bringing with him to Chicago - including Rakim, Doug E.

I’m coming and it’s going to be the Roots band, DJ Z-Trip and DJ Jazzy Jeff behind me and all the other acts, and we’re going to be performing like one big supergroup. “And the thing that’s exciting about it is that most of the time when I would come to a town, there’s going to be an artist on stage, they’ll perform, and there’s a set change. tour, honoring hip-hop’s 50th anniversary (and a forthcoming new album), LL says he’s delivering “nonstop hip-hop all night” as the format will be unlike any other show he’s ever done. Featuring: The Roots, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Z-Trip, Rakim, Common, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Doug E.
