The Boom Bap Fifth Anniversary Bash feat. DJ Nu-Mark: at The 5 Spot (Nashville, TN) Sat. January 26, 2013

The Boom Bap Fifth Anniversary Bash feat. DJ Nu-Mark

Hip-Hop

Nashville Scene Critic's Pick …

What in the huh? Five years? No, that can’t be. There’s no way in hell five years could have passed since DJ Rate, Case and the Crew popped off this classic hip-hop monthly at The Blue Bar. We refuse to believe it — time is not flying by, and we are not about to put the “old” in old-school. But then again, we’re not against waving our hipster cards in your face and reminiscing about the days when Coolout was behind the decks and nobody outside of the 615 area code had ever heard of The 5 Spot. But we’re not going to do that, because it would involve admitting a degree of culpability in this whole “progression of time” thing. And that didn’t happen — it’s still the Bush era, this beer gut is a figment of your imagination, and we’re still young and beautiful.

—SEAN L. MALONEY