Riding high off the success of the radio-smash party banger “Hood Go Crazy” -a collaboration with Two Chainz and B.o.B-Tech N9ne is yet again embarking on a national tour and will be playing in Sacramento at Ace of Spades on Sept. It felt real, tangible, and now, 10 years later, the world is starting to catch onto the reality Tech N9ne has been weaving. But with that song shaking the walls and likely annoying the hell out of his parents, it felt like everything in the song was possible. We weren’t drinking Caribou Lou (the rum-based cocktail referenced in the song), we weren’t at a jumping party, there were no hotties humping and we certainly weren’t famous rappers.

I discovered Tech N9ne in the same way I imagine a lot of suburban kids did in 2006: drinking crappy beer in a friend’s bedroom, laughing while a friend butchered the staccato machine gun chatter and the bombastic call-outs from Tech N9ne’s first certified gold record “Caribou Lou.” “ Get the party jumpin’/Keep the hotties humpin’/I like ‘em thick and juicy /So don’t pilate nothing,” my friend would be shouting, sloshing his beer out onto the floor, his eyes far away, envisioning bouncing around on a stage somewhere.

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