Tech N9ne's Independant Powerhouse Tour w/Brotha Lynch Hung, Kutt Calhoun, Rittz & Ces Cru: at Marathon Music Works (Nashville, TN) Sun. May 5, 2013

Tech N9ne's Independant Powerhouse Tour w/Brotha Lynch Hung, Kutt Calhoun, Rittz & Ces Cru

Hip-Hop

Marathon Music Works

Sun. 5/5/13
Show: 7:00 PM
$25.00 - $27.00
18 and over
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Tech N9ne

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Kansas City MO

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Aaron Dontez Yates , better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper. His musical career has spanned 24 years. Tech N9ne is known for his wide range of collaborations with other well-known artists. In 1999, Tech N9ne was included on the track (and accompanying video) “The Anthem” from Sway & King Tech, two radio personalities based in California.

Early in his career, Tech N9ne was a member of a group called “NNUTT HOWZE”, which he pays tribute to in many of his lyrics by saying “Six, six, triple eight, forty six, ninety nine, three” (6688846993), which spells out NNUTT HOWZE on the touch pad numbers of a telephone. However, the group disbanded when they were dropped from their label, Perspective Records. Additionally, he saw glimpses of success as a member of the 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians – also a Kansas City-based group – with their single “Let’s Get Fucked Up”.

Tech N9ne is a member of The Regime, a large collective of MCs including Yukmouth, Dru Down, Gonzoe, and Tha Realest among various others. Fellow Kansas City rappers BG Bulletwound and Grant Rice are also included in the collective’s roster. Tech N9ne is one of the original members of The Regime, as he has been with the group since its creation by Yukmouth in 1997.

In September 2008, Tech N9ne officially hit a milestone in his career, recording over a million album sales to date, thanks to the release of his double album, Killer. Despite the accomplishment, the rapper remembers the struggles of his career, up until this point. However, he wasn’t surprised. “It just reminded me of all the work we done in the past, up until now. It’s something. It’s dope,” the rapper told BallerStatus.com. “I don’t think it’s sunken in yet. I’ve been celebrating for the last two days because that’s a hell of an accomplishment. I’ve been planning success all my life. I’m not even a bit surprised, I’m happy about it. That just means I was right.” Sickology 101: The Study of Being Sick was released on April 28, 2009. Sickology is the second Tech N9ne collabos album (the first being Misery Loves Kompany), the album has several guest appearances such as Krayzie Bone, Crooked I, and Chino XL.

On April 7, 2009, it was announced that Tech N9ne would be one of the performers for the Rock The Bells 2009 Festival. In August, Tech N9ne performed at the tenth annual Gathering of the Juggalos after appearing at two prior Gatherings.

His newest album K.O.D. was released on October 26, 2009. The album was accompanied by the “K.O.D” tour featuring Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Slaughterhouse, Glasses Malone, Stevie Stone, and the newly signed artist to Strange Music, Big Scoob.

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Tech N9ne - Welcome to Strangeland (from djbooth)

It's really not that hard to figure out why Tech N9ne's succeeded. The major labels are dedicated to making hip-hop an insider's club. Fans aspire to the lifestyles of their favorite artists, and they're willing to pay to become insiders too. That's their motto anyway, but what they didn't realize is that there are not just hundreds, or thousands, but hundreds of thousands of hip-hop fans who think of themselves as outsiders. They just don't give a f**k about getting into that exclusive club, th......

Tech N9ne - Collabos - Misery Loves Kompany (from Rap Reviews)

There's always going to be rappers who have thousands of fans and whose fans feel said rapper should be a lot more popular than they are. Some of those rappers are destined to remain cult favorites because in all honesty they aren't all that dope. But there's a select few who actually should be bumping in stereos across the country. Tech N9ne is one of those rappers, and his latest release only provides more evidence for his already watertight case as the most overlooked rapper in the industr......

Tech N9ne - Absolute Power (from Rap Reviews)

EDITOR'S NOTE: click hereto read the DVD review.With so many regional artists in the hip-hop nation who've blown up their metro or home state, how do you pick the one to invest $12-$15 on when presented with all their albums at Wherehouse, Tower and Sam Goody? Some would say it's the music videos on BET and MTV, but Tech N9ne has been with a bunch of labels that couldn't afford to pay their own bills let alone hire a director and pay for extras. Some would say it's spins on the air, but as Tec......

Tech N9ne - All 6's and 7's (from rapreviews)

Tech N9ne believes in making high quality hip-hop, but he also believes in shrouding it in an air of mystery and confusion. Sometime even the obvious explanations from the auteur himself are subterfuge to disguise the hidden layers of meaning to his music. Even the album titles that N9ne uses can be interpreted multiple ways, such as his latest missive "All 6's and 7's." At its most basic level the title seems to poke fun at his numerological nom de plume. On a more subtle level it suggests a re......

Tech N9ne - Vintage Tech (from Rap Reviews)

I'm going to defer to Tech N9ne here, since in the liner notes he describes the concept of this album far better than I could myself: "This 'Vintage Tech' album was made for the fan who has been here since day one, for the new found fan who missed the early material, and the fan who has just been waiting two years for the new album [...] a lot of these songs you might not have heard due to the content, but I'm at a point in my life where the fear of death is no longer present, so I thought this ......

Tech N9ne - Killer (from Rap Reviews)

A man who has migrated from Egypt to Europe recently made an interesting observation. He speaks the local language fairly well but not well enough for an occupation that would match his professional qualifications. The topic of our conversation was how you present yourself in a job interview. A social worker mentioned to him that like many immigrants who painstakingly have to learn a foreign language, he uses phrases that may sound correct to his ears but tend to get misinterpreted by native spe......

Tech N9ne - a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IZNU?ie=UTF8&tag=theorihiphopl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00006IZNU"More Power/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theorihiphopl-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00006IZNU" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / (from Rap Reviews)

EDITOR'S NOTE: click hereto read the CD review.Tech N9ne has a master plan for the music industry, and it's so large that even having Absolute Power isn't enough for this man - he has to have MORE POWER on top of that. Don't worry though, it's the consumers who benefit from this monopoly. Tech N9ne put his "More Power" DVD on first release copies of his brand new CD as a bonus disc. He's not the first artist to go this route. Eminem and Pacewon both included bonus discs of video material wit......

Tech N9ne - Everready (The Religion) (from Rap Reviews)

"It's the one with the name of a gun, look at me momma what I've become." What has Tech N9ne become? One of hip-hop's best kept secrets. Few people rep their turf more and get less recognition for it than Tech does. There's a certain amount of Midwest pride and bias in that statement, but it's also a stone cold fact. Tech has been a cult favorite since the late 1990's, releasing a half-dozen albums in that time, but finding his name raised above a whisper on the coasts of America is a difficult ......

Tech N9ne - King Of Darkness (K.O.D.) (from Rap Reviews)

Tech N9ne's latest album was shrouded with controversy and hype from the minute it was announced. The title was first announced as "K.O.D." with no information on what the letters stood for. It was rumored to be Tech N9ne's return to the darker sound which made him popular. If that were true, it would be a sharp departure from the image Tech N9ne has spent years building. After receiving backlash from his hometown fans, Tech N9ne made it a point to show that he was not the devil worshipping ......

Tech N9ne - Sickology 101 (from Rap Reviews)

Aaron Yates is nothing if not one of the most colorful rappers in all of hip-hop. The Kansas City native better known as Tech N9ne embodies this spirit both figuratively with lyrics about everything from demonic women to being held prisoner in his own body, and literally with a tendency to do strange things to his face and his hairstyle. To date he may be the only person to release a hip-hop album with artwork parodying Michael Jackson, although Tech posed as a "Killer" instead of a "Thriller," ......

Tech N9ne - The Lost Scripts of K.O.D. (from Rap Reviews)

Given the usual creative process that goes into making the average rap album, a project like "The Lost Scripts of K.O.D." is quite rare. The average rapper records a TON of songs for any given album and chooses the ones he feels will sell best. That usually leaves them at least an album's worth of material to spread across numerous promotional mixtapes, iTunes bonus tracks, and the occasional bonus CD, soundtrack, or compilation. In fact, many times the best material is found in places other ......

Tech N9ne - The Gates Mixed Plate (from Rap Reviews)

Tech N9ne is back with his third "Collabos" release. The concept is simple, Tech N9ne drops an album that is very heavy on features to keep fans happy. The over abundance of guests saves the man from wearing himself thin or becoming redundant and gives him a chance to showcase some of his Strange Music roster. It's also a convenient way to release songs that might not have necessarily fit on a particular album. The "Collabos" albums don't really have a unifying theme and "The Gates Mixed Pla......

Tech N9ne - All 6's & 7's (from djbooth)

Not everyone out there is a Tech N9ne fan, or ever really knows who the Kansas City emcee is, so before we get rolling on his new album All 6's & 7's let's take a moment to educate the latecomers. Put simply, Tech, or Aaron Dontez Yates as the IRS prefers to call him, is the most powerful independent artist in the country - and at a time when being signed to a major label is only a small step above sharecropping, you can make the case that he's one of the most powerful artists period. Completely......