February 22nd: Club Bleu, J Storyz, Bully Hendrix and Lakes The Great Performance Review (Article)

With doors opening at 10pm, Club Bleu was only just getting started with the Truth Music event “Old School Sundays.” 

Artists from M4L were already in the building by 10:30 and shortly after me and Bones entered, people started to flood the club. With some old school tunes bumping courtesy of DJ V Box and after taking my first shot of Patron, I was really ready to move my fingers and begin typing the review. As Lakes The Great entered the building, I had to stop him and get a short interview with him specifically for this article.

AMPtv: “What song’s you performing tonight ?”

Lakes The Great: “Songs from the mixtapes I got out now”

AMPtv: “Are they new ?”

Lakes The Great: “They new to you (laughs).

AMPtv: What have you been up to lately ?

Lakes The Great:  Im a hood n***a definitely you can’t take that out of me. I been out in Pittsburgh doing promotion trying to network. We in the city of no love so you gotta be gritty and grimey. When I go out of town and do my music it’s different.With me it’s nice to meet new people I haven’t met and make those connections and relationships. You can have the hottest music in the nation but you have to be connected with the people. Me and J Storyz have a birthday around the same time on March 28th.”

AMPtv: Anything new on the way ?

Lakes The Great: We shooting the video for the “We Up There” video. We renting a holicopter for that one. I’m trying to learn how to fly it just for the video. I got songs with Roc, HBK, Payroll that people have never heard. On Some industry shit. My new single is called “Ice Cream” it’s available on all platforms Spotify, Itunes everything.

AMPtv: Any shout outs ?

Lakes The Great: I wanna give a shout out to Ty Love. He doing some R&B shit it’s called “Called On Me” it’s an EP which is Itunes, Spotify all over the place.

WIth a random interuption of the music, a performance by J Storyz including J Focuz for Detroit vs Everybody hit the party like an audio earthquake to ears. The pair attracted full attention until toward the end of the song where there was a few audio problems that had the crowd waiting. For the next 2 songs, j storyz was able to continue to keep people moving and maintained the attention of the crowd. He did two more tracks including his joint “I Don’t See Sh**.” He had a knock out performance also performing his diss/reply to J.Cole “Born White” off the “Firing Squad” instrumental which ends with the phrase “Just because I’m White he say i’m stealing when I rap.” Shortly afterward we got a short interview with Bully Hendrix from M4L Entertainment.

AMPtv: So what songs fo you plan on doing tonight ?

Bully Hendrix: I;ma do “From The CItyfeaturing Magick” only one song tonight?

AMPtv: You enjoying yourself?

Bully Hendrix: Yeah It’s straight. I don’t even need a lot of people ot get hype.

AMPtv: What is the project of the songs you are performing tonight ?

Bully: It’s not on a set project really. It may be on a compilation or on Magick project.

AMPtv: What type of song is it ?

Bully: It’s like a hood song like “We From the City where the skinny ni**as die” type track.

With the majority of the party being filled with people from the M4L Entertainment the performance was garaunteed to be a good one. With the drinks flowing and the bar tenders happy with the tips, the second set of performances took place. Performing his track “From the City” Bully Hendrix and Magick had all eyes on them. Nothing like artists who perform without back-up vocals and use instrumentals only. The energy was fully there with an occasional volume problem from Magick.

Lakes The Great started his set with an acapella freestyle that caught the ears of everybody in the audience. After his acapella performance he began his set of music with a track called “Bankrolls” with hard hitting 808’s it had the whole club shaking via DJ V-Boxx. In an all white outfit and black shoes it was hard to miss his performance. With a high energy perfromance, rather good or bad, he recieved the crowds attention and kept eyes in his direction the full performance. Lakes the Greats style seems to remind me of Rock bottom. Including 3 tracks with different appeal and content, his performance had cameras coming at him from all angles.

That’s it for this review shout out to Club Bleu, Lakes The Great, J Storyz, The Lovely Bones (Who co-wrote this review), Bully Hendrix and M4L Ent, Whitey and DJ V Box.