Chali 2na (Jurassic 5)

Fuzen Entertainment presents Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) with live band.

Doors open at 8pm and Chali 2na onstage at 9.30pm.

Local support from Scratch 22 and Team Dynamite.

Official after party at 420 (right across the road from The Studio) with DJ's TBA.

Pre-sales from www.iticket.co.nz, Real Groovy, Beat Merchants and Conch from Weds 12th Oct.

If you were lucky enough to see Chali 2na and live band at Zen back in Oct 2009, you know this is one show that you don't want to miss! If you missed out then don't miss this chance to see Chali 2na playing Jurassic hits plus his solo material!

Bio:
Chali 2na - MC; musician; actor; painter; renaissance man.

Chali 2na has done it all. From his days growing up on the hardscrabble streets of Chicago’s south side, to his subsequent explosion onto Los Angeles’ burgeoning hip-hop scene, to his tenure as MC for seminal hip-hop group Jurassic 5, Chali epitomizes the portrait of a 21st century artist.

To be sure, with his unmistakable, beloved baritone, Chali has firmly established himself as one of the most distinctive, charismatic personalities not just in hip-hop, but music in general.

Only a select few can say they’ve rocked microphones in front of thousands at a sold-out arena in Tokyo with Jurassic 5, spit rhymes at Lollapalooza, painted professional caliber oil colour paintings in their California home and lent their distinctive bass-heavy voice, to such mega-brands as Coca Cola and Sega Dreamcast.

Now, buoyed by the wide spectrum of socio-cultural and geographical influences that have shaped him, hip-hop’s renaissance man released his first solo album Fish Outta Water on Decon Records in the spring of 2009.

Indeed, Chali’s debut features a seemingly endless litany of groundbreaking tracks, which touch on topics the veteran musician has never bared to his listeners before. Whether it’s the trauma he experienced from the shooting death of a childhood friend to the twists and turns of his own family lineage, to the resistance to injustice that has always been imbued in Chali’s music, Fish Outta Water, is quite simply, a life’s worth of songs in the making.

Says Chali: “I want to free people’s asses and let their minds follow. To not be preachy, but to make them aware of what I’m about. I want to enlighten, but I ain’t trying to be a bumper sticker either.”

No doubt, there’s still plenty of fire in Chali’s lyrical arsenal. His days of training at the legendary Los Angeles hotspot, the Good Life Café, have taught him well. Only now, he’s fused the bass-heavy bravado with his own life’s story, and in doing so, creates an album of work that’s not only superb, it’s important.

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