LaTrine Jakscoon
06-20-2008, 01:53 PM
and whines about dat beez rayseeest an sheeet. WFT was a NIGGER doing at the Download Festival in the first place????
It was a banana skin, thrown at my feet as I played last weekend's Download festival. On the outside, someone had written "Bizzle you black cunt". I couldn't believe my eyes.
It had always been a bit of a risk for us - myself, my DJ Twister, and my fellow MC 2Face - to play Download at all. It's a heavy rock festival and I think I'm the first rapper ever to play there. I didn't immediately say yes when I got the offer; I asked my manager who said they wouldn't have asked me if they didn't think I'd rock it. So I agreed.
Then the messages started to appear on my blog and MySpace. People were asking: "Are you doing Download? Are you serious?" Then I found a message board thread with over 100 posts, all of them talking about when I was going to get bottled. By the time I left for the festival I was fully aware that my booking was a problem.
That didn't stop me being surprised at the size of the crowd waiting for me as I took to the stage last Sunday. We were on the second stage, but while I had been expecting a small tent, it was open air and the crowd was massive. I was nervous, but the size of the crowd fired me up. I accepted there was going to be a majority who didn't want me there, but I was going to turn it in my favour.
As soon as we stepped on stage - blloooshh - the bottles, liquids, even a carton of Muller rice started to fly. To be honest, I was kind of relieved that it had begun, but about 80% of the crowd was throwing stuff. It looked like the whole field was raining bottles.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/06/lethal_bizzle_i_was_bottled_at.html
It was a banana skin, thrown at my feet as I played last weekend's Download festival. On the outside, someone had written "Bizzle you black cunt". I couldn't believe my eyes.
It had always been a bit of a risk for us - myself, my DJ Twister, and my fellow MC 2Face - to play Download at all. It's a heavy rock festival and I think I'm the first rapper ever to play there. I didn't immediately say yes when I got the offer; I asked my manager who said they wouldn't have asked me if they didn't think I'd rock it. So I agreed.
Then the messages started to appear on my blog and MySpace. People were asking: "Are you doing Download? Are you serious?" Then I found a message board thread with over 100 posts, all of them talking about when I was going to get bottled. By the time I left for the festival I was fully aware that my booking was a problem.
That didn't stop me being surprised at the size of the crowd waiting for me as I took to the stage last Sunday. We were on the second stage, but while I had been expecting a small tent, it was open air and the crowd was massive. I was nervous, but the size of the crowd fired me up. I accepted there was going to be a majority who didn't want me there, but I was going to turn it in my favour.
As soon as we stepped on stage - blloooshh - the bottles, liquids, even a carton of Muller rice started to fly. To be honest, I was kind of relieved that it had begun, but about 80% of the crowd was throwing stuff. It looked like the whole field was raining bottles.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/06/lethal_bizzle_i_was_bottled_at.html