Originally, this show was going to have Mos Def and Pharoahe Monch as well, and it was going to be the debut show at Warehouse Live. Then it got moved to Hush. Then it got cancelled (Mos Def is cited as having exhaustion, and his doctor recommends calling off the tour). Now we get half the tour, at a new venue. Original tickets are being refunded at point of sale; you'll have to buy new tickets for this one.

Here's my original blurb:

Four of hip-hop's premier artists come to Houston. Mos Def (probably best known at this point for his crossovers into acting - see "The Italian Job" or "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy") and Talib Kweli are collectively Black Star, although they have both had reasonable success with their independent careers and prior groups (Urban Thermo Dynamics, Reflection Eternal). Kweli is working a new project, "Right About Now: The Sucka Free CD." Jean Grae is quite likely the angriest woman in rap. But she has ridiculous lyrical skills (battlers beware) and can spit a freestyle with the best of them. Her album "This Week" on Babygrande was heavily slept on, but definitely one of the better albums of 2004. And Pharoahe Monch, of course, was one half of the legendary Organized Konfusion. He released the politically charged song "Agent Orange" in 2003.