Dipset: Reunion Tour

Related Content

• Chuuwee on Watching the Throne, his Soundset approach
  May 25, 2012
• AraabMuzik
  February 29, 2012
• Polica debuts new video for "Lay Your Cards Out" on Jay-Z's Life Times site
  January 10, 2012
• 5 worst rap songs of 2011
  December 5, 2011
• Up in the air: How Minneapolis became a flyover city for major rap artists
  January 13, 2012

More About

• Cam'ron
• The Diplomats (Band)
• Jim Jones (Rapper)
• Hip-Hop and Rap
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

In the early 2000s, Harlem's Diplomats crew was in the upper echelon of East Coast rap, not just commercially (Cam'ron's "Oh Boy" and "Hey Ma" both hit the top 5 of Billboard's Hot 100) and in terms of clout (a brief but notable group affiliation with Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records) but creatively. Cam'ron's unpredictable and offbeat lyricism combined club-friendly conspicuous consumption, hood-ready toughness and enough tongue-twisting agility in his flow to catch respect from even the most anti-pop hip hop heads. Other members of Dipset had similar success -- Jim Jones with "We Fly High" and Juelz Santana with "There It Go (The Whistle Song)" chief amongst them -- but late-decade creative differences and the three-year incarceration of member Freekey Zekey put the crew on the back burner for a while. A Diplomats reunion has been considered one of those "they said it couldn't be done" situations, but a recent deal with Interscope and word of a third [i]Diplomatic Immunity[/i] album -- not to mention tonight's show -- aim to prove otherwise.
Fri., March 18, 10 p.m., 2011