STR8 EXCLUSIVE: DOM KENNEDY GETS PRESIDENTIAL AT SOBs

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Words by Lucas Alvarado-Farrar

SOBs exploded Tuesday night with the arrival of LA’s finest, Dom Kennedy, in front of a packed house. The show, easily stamped as one of the sweatiest of the summer, had a line winding down the block all night. DJ Wallah of Hot 97 (who stepped in for Rosenberg) had the crowd bouncing, jumping and cooking throughout the warm up acts as the club began to simmer. After a few fogettable openers out came recent high school grad Casey Veggies to shouts and shrieks. He got the crowd more than ready for the headline, but I’ll let the pics do the rest of the talking…

 Married to the Mob model and DJ Jasmine Solano (above, bottom left) guided the crowd through the early moments of the night – just mad she didn’t spit. Veggies blessed the stage with his homie Josh and the two rocked the people side to side. The height of their energy came during 30,000. Casey & crew are currently filming a video for that same track and I was lucky enough to sit in on some of the planning the next night before they flew back to LA (Casey’s pops was in attendance!).

Dom came out to a sloppy entrance as DJ Drewbyrd experienced some technical difficulties on the 1s and 2s (whoops!), but got the crowd rocking in no time. While his show two nights early in Philly was one of the lazier performances I’ve seen, Tuesday’s set took a turn for the hype. Feeding off the energy throbbing in SOBs Dom led the crowd through tracks from 25th Hour to his debut album From the Westside with Love II (check below for a complete set list). At one point he had a girl bucking and weaving above the crowd on top of her man’s shoulders making the concert look like a rodeo (pictured above, bottom left).

Sidenote: Too many people with cameras mobbed the stage during different points in the night which was both distracting and disrespectful.

Shout out to Hot 97 and Blast by Colt 45 for sponsoring the show

Set List for Dom Kennedy

‘GRIND’N’
‘Dom’s Prayer’
‘1997’
‘Still me’
‘Play On’
‘Choose Up
‘Turn Me Out’
‘Bet You Want Me Now’
‘Designer Sh*t
‘CDC’
‘Notorious Dom’
‘Watermelon Sundae’
‘Showtime’
’Menace Beach’
‘Come Around’
‘O.P.M.’
‘Locals Only’
‘Leimert Park Song’

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Photography by Far Fetched Future

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