NightTown, Rotterdam, 03-02-2000. Finally Mobb Deep did came to the Fatlands. After a couple of no shows Kenneth of World Wide Platinum together with Streetz USA succeeded in bringing them over. NightTown was packed with fans and the temperature was rising. For FL 50,- (25 Euro) per person for the entrance ticket, this better be the bomb.

Fire Arms opened the evening followed by Big Mic and a crew from New Jersey called United Nations. One of the three United Nations MC’s was doing a "real freestyle" while an other MC was visualizing the lyrics. Well what about that? But around eleven o' clock it was time to get crazy mad, ready for Prodigy and Havoc! It seemed the Mobb was not that deep, "Havoc had a car accident" so he couldn't come to Rotterdam.

When they hit the stage it was a storm that took over. Audience went wild. The first 15 minutes were great and everybody enjoyed the show and then the crew started hyping the crowd up with the chant: "I don't give a fuck!". What followed was, well it became very quiet. They left the stage...

According to one man of the organization they were only getting a drink. Yeah right. There were drinks enough on stage. Now it seemed the organization taught the Mobbsters that they better had to recognize and go back on stage and give something worth for the + ƒ12.000,- (6.000 Euro) they were getting for the show. After ten minutes they came back for five more minutes. Yes a full five minutes. Meanwhile the audience wondered why they pulled that sick joke. The first 15 minutes of the show proved all the ingredients were there to make it the bomb. Why did they kill the party while they were rocking tight? Maybe it was part of the show but what followed were only five minutes with half finished rhymes and then they left for good.

Just to get a rep

Now the Dutch audiences don't start boo-ing very quick but after only 20 minutes everybody who had to pay a ticket to get in experienced the show as a rip off. And the organization was kinda pissed. In the survival of the fittest they live up their rep for being a no show, even when they are standing on stage.

We had a chance to ask them some questions by way of a short interview. But one answer just showed their love for their hardcore audience. That same audience that bought all their records and even paid the damn ticket to get in.
Mickey: "You must have heard that your audience started to boo-ing you. Why did you disrespect them with only a show of 15 minutes?"
Prodigy: "Well they heard all our hits."

Fuck it, ya can't even play all Mobb Deep hits in one hour. Maybe they don't give a fuck but their audience over here does give a fuck. At least in that 15 minutes they shook for once the Dutch audience with a tight show, but then the party was over. Ain't no such thing as a half way crook, ain't no such thing as a half way tight show. As far as we could hear some of the reactions, the bridge is over…

Mickey and AQ