Yah Mos Def In Footloose-esque Bust-Up!
Now, what you have here is something you don’t see much of in the modern age: Good ol’ fashion goon-on-wuss small-town coppery. Seems that on Friday night, your pals and ours The Yah Mos Def were playing an old-style all-ages hardcore-type show in Williamstown, NJ. It seemed like it was gonna be a nice time: There were backpacks, there were vegans. Now, as best we can put it together, here’s how it went wrong: Some young emo doofus stole a stop sign or something and the venue’s owner got upset and called the cops. Fair enough. Cops show up, looking for the kid, but instead of being cooooooool, man, they find the kid who’s promoting the show, and tell him to inform the band that this is there last song. The kid tries to inform the band of this, but it’s loud, it’s confusing, the band doesn’t know what to do, and just goes on a-screamo-ing. That’s when the video begins. The cops, somehow sensing that they have landed straight in the heart of Williamstown’s budding Iraqi insurgency, start screaming and leaping on these emo pussies as if they were rusty Al-Qaeda grenades that could blow at any moment. (Don’t they know all the kids these days are on Zoloft and Ritalin? Really, officer, there is no need.) Instantly, these kids, having spent just enough time at Wooden Shoe to know when to shout “POLICE BRUTALITY! POLICE BRUTALITY!” And that’s when the cops start looking really dumb. Suddenly, everyone is a threat. Even the dorkus (Distro from YMD, it turns out) filming the video. That’s it. Show’s over. See what happens when you steal a stop sign in Williamstown? Let this be a lesson to you young emo terror cells. Ok? OKAY?
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