Survivors Celebrate A Family Reunion
By Jon Caramanica
“We paying respect to the dead right now,” Juelz Santana told the Hammerstein Ballroom crowd Friday night, urging a moment of silence for the friends he had lost in recent months. “We gotta get this right.”
Moments before, the screens above him onstage were displaying their photos — G-Baby, D-Train, Classik, Johnny Jerajian, Huddy 6 — while D.R.S.’s threnody “Gangsta Lean” played over the speakers.
The crowd mostly kept quiet, then the D.J. broke the mood with the sound of gunshots. Juelz Santana was not amused.
“I need some better gunshots!” he screamed.
With the Diplomats — Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey — the tragic never gets in the way of the theatrical, and vice versa. This was the reunion show of this Harlem rap crew, torn asunder a few years ago by petty animus and financial accusations back and forth, survivors of arrests and family struggles, but now brought back together for another chance at harmony, if not quite world domination. (READ MORE)
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