Today our BottleRock Napa Featured Band of the Day is The Pharcyde. BottleRock Napa has always done an excellent job at bringing together a variety of music styles and genres with the success of creating new fans for each band playing. We are excited that The Pharcyde will be bringing their hip hop energy to the Midway Stage. Their long time history will be bringing plenty of fans to watch them bring their rap game to new heights at BottleRock.
In the early 90’s, when gangsta’ rap consumed the airwaves, and the majority of West Coast rappers strapped on their Locs, Chuck Taylor’s & Ben Davis’, The Pharcyde decidedly maintained a willfully weird vision. Opting to stay true to themselves with their left field but still South-Central sensibility, rap had seen few groups so self-deprecating and so smart, four visionary rappers adroitly able to split the difference between helium-voiced and hard-core.
Listening to “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” two full decades after its release, its sense of timeliness is unmistakable. Every song on the album inverts a hoary hip-hop cliché. With classics like “Oh Shit,” “Otha Fish”, “Ya’ Mama,” and hit single, “Passing Me By,” it is not surprising that it shipped over a million units, garnered comparisons to De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, and everyone from Pitchfork Media to The Source has hailed it as one of the greatest albums ever made.
So make sure not to miss them playing at the Midway Stage on Saturday, May 28th at 4:30.
The Pharcyde is:
- Uncle Imani
- Bootie Brown (Frank Friction)
Song to Check out: She Said
Video to check out: Passing Me By
~ Marisol
Information & Links:
- Website: http://thepharcyde.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePharcyde/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepharcyde
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepharcyde/
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- Twitter: www.twitter.com/BottleRockNapa
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/bottlerocknapa
- Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/Bottlerocknapa
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