Well, that was a mess, but a fun mess all the same! I’ll check back in later with a more complete report.
OK. Here’s what went down. Let me start by saying that it was awesome to jam with those guys. You may find this hard to believe, but we rehearsed for two days! There was a problem though. You see, there was a TelePrompTer (with all the lyrics and such) for the days of rehearsal, which everybody could read just fine. (This is real behind the scenes type stuff here.) When the audience was in, they all stood on their seats to see Jay-Z, unintentionally standing right in the way of the prompter, so Kid, was stuck without his lyrics. As for the mix, welcome to live television. The mix was just awful but what can you do? That’s just the way it goes on TV sometimes. The real disappointment was the fact that we had Rick Rubin right between Love and Sheila E, scratching on the turntables and they never even cut to him once! He was amazing and had that killer fur coat on he wore in the 99 Problems video. All in all, it was a really great day. I made some cool friends, hooked up with some old ones and got to jam with one of my favorite Hip Hop artists.
Dave