If you attended Howard University Homecoming’s “Rhythm Nation ’09 Yardfest”, held last Friday October 23rd, 2009 then you may have walked down Georgia Ave and passed the legendary McDonald’s whose parking lot was occupied by local radio station WPGC 95.5. From there you would’ve walked towards the Yard and either accepted or declined a number of promotional flyers. Once you arrived on the yard you would’ve had a selection of food and beverage vendors to buy from, in addition to the Pepsi booth in which attendees received free Pepsi drinks as announced by Yardfest host and 93.9 WKYS radio personality, Angie Ange.
Just before you arrive at the Yardfest stage, there are a number of merchandise vendors carrying everything from Greek Paraphernalia to Angela Davis t-shirts, located to the right. Known names Fabolous, Clipse, Nipsey Hussle and even Washington, DC’s own Wale were the day’s performance headliners. But, up-coming artists from places like Philadelphia, Atlanta, and NY also performed. The up-coming artists hailing from the DMV that took the Yardfest stage included Phil Ade, XO, Don Juan, K-Beta and DJ extraordinaire DJ Alizay. Phile Ade performed his single, “Hollywood” which has the entire DMV anticipating the release of its Tabi Bonney directed music video. Don Juan went in with his hit single “Lookie Looky”. XO performed “Do It” which is to be featured on his upcoming album, set to drop on the same date as the title “One One Ten”. DJ Alizay asked the crowd if they wanted to know who K-Beta is and then the two of them went into a set of songs from the “89 to 09” mixtape.
Listen to the audio clips, where both XO and K-Beta discuss how they prepared for the Yardfest and what they took away from their performance + what their next moves are + K-Beta discusses a track that may be featured on King Penslim’s Beam Up II, which features him, King Penslim, and XO, all headliners for the Capital City Music Tour…Listen:
-The Historian
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