{"id":5103,"date":"2023-07-12T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:38:45","slug":"rock-steady-sound-system-block-party-03-07-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/rock-steady-sound-system-block-party-03-07-23\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCK STEADY SOUND SYSTEM BLOCK PARTY 03.07.23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sun. The Rain. \u00a0The Super Moon.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kai Alc\u00e9<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPut em\u2019 up.\u00a0 <\/span>Put em\u2019 up.\u00a0 <\/span>Put em\u2019 up.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The host yells into the microphone.\u00a0 <\/span>There is not one but two of em yelling into microphones. Their mumblings about someone later giving hugs and then that someone giving two hugs after dark.\u00a0 <\/span>All the while the deejay appears perplexed.\u00a0 <\/span>Confused at the vocal back and forth between the two.\u00a0 <\/span>Against the soundtrack of snaps and hiss on Mary Mary\u2019s \u201cWalking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Your head hangs low, sadly, it\u2019s going to be one of those events.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event with people incessantly talking into a microphone as deejays play music.\u00a0 <\/span>Especially, house music.\u00a0 <\/span>This is not r&b, soul, hip hop, dancehall, reggae, or even drum n\u2019 bass where masters of ceremonies hypes the crowd, that music is more suited for day two\u2019s event at Rock Steady Sound System Block Party.\u00a0 <\/span>Today is about house music.\u00a0 <\/span>Soulful house music.\u00a0 <\/span>Vocal house music. Deep house music.\u00a0 <\/span>Snoh Aalegra\u2019s interpretation of \u201cDo 4 Luv\u201d entangled with Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Every Woman,\u201d are four-on-the floor thumpers.\u00a0 <\/span>\u2018Ontz, ontz, ontz,\u2019 music has no place for shout-outs unless sung by Nina Simone on \u201cI Put A Spell On You\u201d (El Soulfrito Mix).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cPut em\u2019 up\u201d continues long after Kai Alc\u00e9\u2019s exit, and long before the next vibe selector appears.\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, DJ Just Dizle\u2019s playlist fits the narrative hype music.\u00a0 <\/span>Anyone for \u201cThuggish Ruggish Bone?\u201d The francophone\u2019s transitions are brief, every one minute and thirty seconds before the next song is rushed into existence.\u00a0 <\/span>That ADHD mixing clears the dance area.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At one point, there are more Rock Steady Sound System Block Party Ambassadors making the rounds than visiting guests. \u201cPerhaps people have to work today,\u201d explains one dancer seated on the curb.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cOr they are waiting to come in the evening,\u201d explains another lifelong house head seated on her lawn chair.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHydrate. Hydrate. Hydrate.\u201d The verbose host’s baritone knocks you over like a verbal assault in a heatwave. Duh, bodies are sweating in the sun, 90 degrees to be exact on a July 4th extended weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The most common asinine questions, heard too many times in far too many minutes are; \u201cWhere my ladies?\u201d-\u201cWhere my New Yowkas? -Chicago.-Are you in da house?\u00a0 <\/span>-Where my Atlantans at?-Make some noise.-Detroit you out there?-Miami?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And if vocalist David Anthony\u2019s name is mentioned one more time, the crowd will ooh, they swear.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then Philly\u2019s Rich Medina marches back onto the stage to give a few words.\u00a0 <\/span>Correction. He is being summoned to the stage to deejay. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rich Medina<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rich Medina brings the party back to the block party.\u00a0 <\/span>A band of bodies draped in all white or various brights, dance to salsa, disco, Afro beat and every genre in between.\u00a0 <\/span>Medina from Philly keeps his mouth closed as he plays. Except to chat with vocalist Barbara Tucker. As the nearby host babbles, \u201cWe gonna shake off that trap on you.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrap music was never on me,\u201d says one dancer serving a serious eye roll.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe gon make you a legend,\u201d the host rambles on\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m already a legend.\u201d She replies.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The people are ready for house music. Their wish is granted when Soul Saver\u2019s \u201cAnother Day<\/a>,\u201d produced by Motor City\u2019s Gerald Mitchell erupts crystal clear from several sound cabinets adjacent the stage.\u00a0 <\/span>Where to the right, audio engineers control the decimals and pitch behind a Rock Steady black tarp.\u00a0 <\/span>But damn, the vibe is ruined with the\u00a0 <\/span>continued talking.\u00a0 <\/span>Talk mouths. Diarrea falling from their lips. And when the screaming host needs a break, guess what, someone else walks up onstage, mic in hand and spits more nonsense.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like \u201cMis Puerto Ricans est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed.\u201d True they have arrived. Perhaps they want to arrive in peace. Minus the unnecessary PSA.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From the fourth floor balcony of a residential complex a university student casually views below the layout of food trucks, picnic tables, cabanas, hairstyles, and stage positioned in the rear parking lot at Rock Steady, the restaurant located near Northside Drive as Bebe Winans belts \u201cHe will deliver<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, Lawd. Please, deliver us from all the \u201cTip your bartender and make a friend with a bartender\u201d suggestions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Things get worse. Like catcalls from the stage worse. \u201cHey girl.\u201d Smacks his lips. \u201cI see you with your fine self.\u201d Ewww. Gross.\u00a0 <\/span>He continues.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cReal men, love real women.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>So, only a man can love a woman fully?\u00a0 <\/span>\u201c100% all woman.\u201d What about woman who love woman?\u00a0 <\/span>Look around, there stands two women holding hands. Oops, the host has no clue cause he is too busy shuckin\u2019 and jivin\u2019 onstage.\u00a0 <\/span>And are they to be excluded? Who? The LGBTQ community at the Block Party.\u00a0 <\/span>Another look around, reveals the lack of inclusion; gay men, trans, and the gender fluidity. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCan someone tell him to shut the fu-k up?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe all want to.\u201d Someone replies while two-stepping before yelling, “Medina is playing, “There Some Hoes In Dis House!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mother Nature’s Fireworks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Terry Hunter<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we all came together, we could get that to leave.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Her index finger pointing.\u00a0 <\/span>At that, as in the gathered grey mass consuming the sky.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cOh well, the rain won\u2019t drive us away,\u201d says the MC over Louie Vega starring Monique Bingham\u2019s \u201cElevator (Going Up)<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>At this moment the music selector switches.\u00a0 <\/span>Chicago\u2019s Terry Hunter takes the reins.\u00a0 <\/span>As he starts to play,\u00a0 <\/span>droplets fall.\u00a0 <\/span>People scurry.\u00a0 <\/span>They grab their lawn chairs.\u00a0 <\/span>They take cover.\u00a0 <\/span>They disappear.\u00a0 <\/span>Their hair!<\/span><\/p>\n

The rain dance is on.\u00a0 <\/span>There is a cleansing release shuffling in showers.\u00a0 <\/span>The water falls heavier.\u00a0 <\/span>The beat goes harder.\u00a0 <\/span>The sounds of acid continue for a good five minutes more before Terry Hunter\u2019s best set ever is hushed.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWe are going inside,\u201d announces the MC.\u00a0 <\/span>Lightning is in the forecast.\u00a0 <\/span>Suddenly, boom and flashes strike from weighty, low reaching cumulonimbus.\u00a0 <\/span>Mother nature\u2019s fireworks.\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone left standing runs for cover, underneath cabanas.\u00a0 <\/span>Into the building.\u00a0 <\/span>Up the stairs.\u00a0 <\/span>Or through a side entrance. Only those with a certain wrist band can enter downstairs.\u00a0 <\/span>Scores of the soaked are turned away.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cGo upstairs.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>They are told.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cBooo.\u201d People hurl insults at the two security guards standing at the door.\u00a0 <\/span>Their turning away an auntie with her roller is not cool. Also, the two abhorrent gatekeepers refuse to walk her upstairs in the downpour.\u00a0 <\/span>This is crazy.\u00a0 <\/span>Today\u2019s youth has no respect for their elders.\u00a0 <\/span>The storm continues.\u00a0 <\/span>The sky is totally angry. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Upstairs, the party continues inside the art gallery.\u00a0 <\/span>The area blanketed with too many floor rugs. Surprisingly the space is not packed amongst the superfluous coffee tables, sofas, and chairs. The music bumps along until the Chosen Few\u2019s Hunter brings the church with \u201cI thank God for goodness and how He set me free.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>When the music disapates the crowd screams \u201cGrateful!\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Terry is hittin\u2019 em\u2019 with his best set ever!\u00a0 <\/span>Thankfully the babbling has stopped.\u00a0 <\/span>No one is narrating the music.\u00a0 <\/span>If that\u2019s what it\u2019s called. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The most hype song played is Masters At Work, \u201cThe Ha Drop<\/a>.\u201d The Kenny Dope Remix ignites bodies to jump and spin. Brooklyn\u2019s Tony Touch is in the building, hunched over wearing a black backpack over a blue tee looking befuddled.\u00a0 <\/span>No one knows where to go.\u00a0 <\/span>Or what to do.\u00a0 <\/span>The hip hop legend appears to walk back outside.\u00a0 <\/span>As Hunter closes with his GRAMMY nominated remix of Beyonce\u2019s \u201cBreak My Soul.\u201d \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Super Moon\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Touch<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The block party moves back to the rear parking lot. We back outside ya\u2019ll!\u00a0 <\/span>Where twilight welcomes darkness and a new moon. Where the party people are gathered.\u00a0 <\/span>Smiling. Swaying. Snapping fingers. As though a treacherous storm never reared its ugly gowl an hour earlier.\u00a0 <\/span>Underneath a bright spectrum of wattage, Touch is ripping the box playing his boy\u2019s Louie Vega & Josh Milan\u2019s Truth Dub 1 of the late Loleatta Holloway\u2019s \u201cCan\u2019t Let You Go<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Now lifestyle guru Kenny Burns is yelling \u201cToca.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Annoyingly over the fan favorite \u201cApaga la Luz<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The self-proclaimed light-skin but a Scorpio fails to impress.\u00a0 <\/span>The shout-outs about beef empanadas to \u201cMy Caribbeans, Dominicans, Guyanese, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Columbians, and Puerto Ricans\u201d are cumbersome.\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, Rock Steady caters to the Afro-Caribbean crowd, we understand, but damn. Damn. Damn. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is too much going on.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>A familiar voice observes.\u00a0 <\/span>Where?\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cUp there.\u201d Onstage.\u00a0 <\/span>Dancers shaking ass.\u00a0 <\/span>One dancer is all limbs with no roots. Burns appears, joining the dance crew for the wobble.\u00a0 <\/span>He is having his Drake moment when rapping and shouting \u201cAye\u201d into the microphone.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The eye moves from the media personality and booty bouncers to lone Tony Touch in the background standing behind the ones and twos mixing into OVEOUS & QVLN\u2019s \u201cQueimar<\/a>\u201d (Ezel Remix). Tocas\u2019 one hour house music journey closes on a high with Sin Palabras\u2019 \u201cYemaya.\u201d The Yoruba Soul Mix brings the bass and boom. When the energy explodes. Onstage to the concrete. \u201cYo Tony, what\u2019s going on?\u201d The Morehouse alumni asks.\u00a0 <\/span>Imagine facial expressions viewing all the booties bouncing to the Yoruba orisha of motherhood and water.\u00a0 <\/span>If Yemaya gives life, then so too the bouncing asses.\u00a0 <\/span>Them booties giving life to the gathered mid-size crowd of ogles and awes. Where a handful realizes this is a dance ritual. Spiritual music. The ancestors communicating with the flesh through movement. Then the music abruptly changes.\u00a0 <\/span>Anyone for Sugarhill Gang\u2019s \u201cApache (Jump On It)?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Head hangs low, this has become a circus.\u00a0 <\/span>Can someone, please, save this party from itself?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then it happens.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The only artist to escape the hype man appears stage right. \u201cI need more monitor,\u201d the familiar voice announces. The music gives a false start, like a track star leaping before the \u201cpow.\u201d The deejay appears clueless. It wasn\u2019t me, reads his visage.\u00a0 <\/span>Oops. The crowd patiently waits mere seconds before she appears.\u00a0 <\/span>Her hour glass frame packed tight into a body suit with belt harness in silver. Her smile glows.\u00a0 <\/span>Her curved eye lashes ready to fly.\u00a0 <\/span>Her face is beat for the goddesses.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Crystal Waters\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rock Steady\u2019s headliner, opens with an intro from \u201cIn De Ghetto\u201d made a cult classic by David Morales and the Bad Yard Club.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cParty People!\u201d She yells as she launches in \u201cMakin\u2019 Happy\u201d the Steve Silk Hurley produced that peaked at the top of the dance world.\u00a0 <\/span>Next she drops her debut single, the household anthem, the song everyone remembers, \u201cGypsy Woman (She\u2019s Homeless)\u201d that has everyone singing \u201cLa da dee, la dee da.\u201d The Basement Boys produced classic segues into their hit \u201c100% Pure Love.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Mouths singing. Fists in the air. Bodies thrust into the air. At one point, Water\u2019s deliciously chiseled two male dancers, lift her off the ground, and spins the Queen around high in the air, without dropping her tiny frame.\u00a0 <\/span>Perfect acrobatic maneuver for her best beloved number.\u00a0 <\/span>The crowd loses their locs.\u00a0 <\/span>Their wigs snatched.\u00a0 <\/span>Their edges torn.\u00a0 <\/span>She closes with a smash up of \u201cDestination Unknown\u201d from the mid aughts.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cParty People\u201d the \u201c2B Luved\u201d singer yells again into the mic. Perhaps. Fingers crossed. Just maybe she will launch into the DJ Spen and Micfreek track of the same name. Disappointedly no.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Waters ate and she ate good.\u00a0 <\/span>Talk about a show stopper. The diva is a legend after 30 plus years in the music industry. She proved you don\u2019t need all the hype to give the best house\/club live performance ever. One person said it best, \u201cHouse Music does not need to be talked over.\u00a0 <\/span>The music speaks for itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sun. The Rain. \u00a0The Super Moon. Kai Alc\u00e9 \u201cPut em\u2019 up.\u00a0 Put em\u2019 up.\u00a0 Put em\u2019 up.\u201d\u00a0 The host yells into the microphone.\u00a0 There is not one but two of em yelling into microphones. 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