Click here to view the full slideshow from this event.Pusha T of the Clipse playing to the crowd at Sneaker Pimps in Miami on Saturday.
Sneaker Pimps
Shorties snatched free skull
stickers, Onitsuka Tiger toy keychains, and other sneaker-related swank
from the Tokidoki corner. And upstairs, the independent merch
shop--featuring Da Bottom Clothing, Superkix, Female Sneaker Fiend, etc.--was mobbed thicker than the black market. took the stage, flanked by a pair of flatscreens broadcasting a Verizon-sponsored text stream of inane shit like "Luke knows kicks! LOL!" and "Hi!" Needless to say, it took a few songs for the Chicago-slash-Detroit duo to finally draw peeps from their shopping. But once the crowd found the front of the stage, MCs Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish tag-teamed the room with a 45-minute set of their retro-style rap faves, including "Gold Links" and "Popcorn." Before they left, sing-alongs started, hand-signs were tossed, and spliffs got sparked. came full-force with the true street package. As always, brothers (the genetic kind) Malice and Pusha T brought vicious flow, fast brutal beats, and thugged-out gangsta tales to the fore. Manically stalking the stage, they criss-crossed left to right and back between verses, plugging the air with mimicked glock-blasts and hyping the crowd with overtures to the 305. Their set sampled widely from 2002's Lord Willin' and 2006's Hell Hath No Fury while giving a few glimpses of their long-brewing, upcoming release Till the Casket Drops. Added to that, there was a walk-on appearance from Philly-based rapper and Re-Up Gang member Ab-Liva and the parting words: "It's curfew!" Seconds after changing his shoes, some wasted teen took a wide-stance curbside, poked his pecker past the fly, and dribbled urine all over his brand-new, white Nikes.