Name: The Realest Coolest Dopest New Year Rap Show Ever!
Start: 2025-01-03T21:00:00
End: 2025-01-04T02:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

Señor Gigio presents FRIDAY JANUARY 3RD—3RD ANNUAL! <h2>The Realest Coolest Dopest New Year Rap Show Ever!</h2><h2>Señor Gigio + 1 A.M. + Kensho Kuma + Hugo Monster + Effex+ Constant Lyt &amp; Sorin Vibee + LMT Break</h2>—Doors 8:00pm / Show 9:00pm$12 Admission—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+Señor Gigio presents The Realest Coolest Dopest New Year Rap Show Ever! 3rd annual show setting the intentions to kick off the Year right promising new music &amp; continued growth for all. A special curated night of dedicated local Bay Area Hip-Hop acts bringing the conscious messages, lyricism &amp; organic high vibes to inspire &amp; entertain.Señor Gigio—Señor Gigio is a celebrated independent Hip Hop artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His music is inspirational, eclectic &amp; masterful, with a foundation built on storytelling &amp; exploring abstract concepts. Experimental by nature, he is able to relate to a wide audience drawing many different kinds of people together &amp; this is largely where we see the appeal of his gifts shine through. Whether it be through rapping highly-technical yet funky dope flows, crooning bluesy soul ballads or venturing out there with bold alternative sounds, Señor Gigio doses his audience with the pure magic that life itself is made of.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.senorgigio.guru">http://www.senorgigio.guru</a>1 A.M.aka its1amsomewhere<hr>—1 A.M. (aka its1amsomewhere), born Cassidy Guerrero, is an independent artist based out of Gilroy, California. By the age of 16 she was already a self-professed artist; producing beats and writing poetry to find release from the struggles within her life. Sacrificing sleep to work on her craft, she developed a passion for the music and as a declaration of these sleepless nights and her faith in God, she took on the name 1 A.M.. Moving forward she aspires to bring light with her music through her raw and introspective songwriting.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://iam1am.com/1-a-m-epk">https://iam1am.com/1-a-m-epk</a>Kensho Kuma—Locally tested, globally respected.. Kensho Kuma is a bilingual Japanese American MCrepresenting 510 Berkeley, California. Kuma has been active since the late nineties, and showsno signs of slowing down.. (he just completed a series of shows in Asia this past summer.)Kensho Kuma has shared the stage with critically acclaimed artists in the U.S. and in Asia,including Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, Hieroglyphics, Living Legends, the RZA, LargeProfessor, Rino Latina II, Ozrosaurus, and members of Thaitanium.Outside of Hip Hop culture, Kuma is a career elementary/ middle school teacher, and also holdsclinical licensure for alcohol and substance abuse counseling.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://kenshokuma.com/">https://kenshokuma.com/</a>Hugo Monster—Like the 808 bass of a West Coast rap song, Richmond rapper HugoMonster comes stomping down your street and into your living room, shattering windows and egos.Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hugo Monster grew up focused on the success of school and work, only to discover a life's worth of obstacles boxing him in. Instead of becoming a maladjusted, cold-hearted creature, a persona began to form inside Hugo, eventually taking a life on its own as rap tyrant HugoMonster.With a light-hearted yet curt voice, the Monster's words have found their place, penetrating through tweeters and into music venues and revitalizing audiences.Born in impoverished El Salvador, HugoMonster moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in his early childhood, assimilating and immersing himself in the pop culture of American youth.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.hugomonster.com/">https://www.hugomonster.com/</a>Effex—Longtime Vallejo-based lyricist &amp; battle rapper. Passionate &amp; dedicated emcee.Constant Lyt &amp; Sorin Vibee—San Jose based artists Constant Lyt (emcee) &amp; Sorin Vibee (soul singer) team up to dish out delicious, soulful &amp; intelligent Hip-Hop performance.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/constant.lyt">https://www.instagram.com/constant.lyt</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/sorinvibee/">https://www.instagram.com/sorinvibee/</a>LMT Break—Lmt. Break is a San Francisco native. He began contributing to the Hip Hop Culture as a deejay, for The I.M.F’s first rap crew. After many years of deejaying, crate digging, and building out his Vinyl collection, Lmt. Break acquired an MPC and began producing beats. His sound is thickly layered, with murky samples placed over massive breaks.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://outsiderssyndicate.com/crew">https://outsiderssyndicate.com/crew</a>