Tech N9ne with Machine Gun Kelly, Big Krizz Kaliko/Mayday/Prozak, and Stevie Stone opening will perform in the Historic McDonald Theatre on
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Indie rapper Tech N9ne, known for a lightning- fast rhyming style, will perform in the McDonald Theatre on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Machine Gun Kelly, Big Krizz Kaliko/Mayday/Prozak, and Stevie Stone will open the concert.
All ages advance tickets are general admission and available now for $28 at all Safeway TicketsWest outlets, online at TicketsWest, and will call online at mcdonaldtheatre.com. Tickets day of show will cost $35. Doors will open at 7 p.m. The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Tech N9ne, real name Aaron Dontez Yates, is widely regarded as one of the most successful independent artists in contemporary rap and hip-hop music with a career spanning more than 20 years.
Early in his career, Tech N9ne was a member of a group called Black Mafia, which was founded by Black Walt in 1990. The group also contained Boss Hoss, Short Nitty and Bakarii.
Tech N9ne was also a member of the group Nnutthowze, along with producer IcyRoc Kraven and MCs Dyno Mack, Agginy and Plaque. The group was signed to Perspective Records in 1993. However, the group disbanded soon after being released from the label. Tech often pays tribute to the group in his lyrics by saying "Six, six, triple eight, forty six, ninety nine, three" (6688846993), which spells out Nnutthowze on the touch pad numbers of a telephone. Additionally, he saw glimpses of success as a member of the 57th Street Rogue Dog Villians - also a Kansas City-based group - with their single “Let's Get Fucked Up.”
Tech N9ne is a member of The Regime, a large collective of MCs including Yukmouth, Dru Down, Gonzoe, Tha Realest and Messy Marv among various others. Fellow Kansas City rappers BG Bulletwound and Grant Rice are also included in the collective's roster. Tech N9ne is one of the original members of The Regime, as he has been with the group since its creation by Yukmouth in 1997.
In September 2008, Tech N9ne officially hit a milestone in his career, recording more than a million album sales to date, thanks to the release of his double album, Killer.
Sickology 101: The Study of Being Sick was released in 2009. Sickology is the second Tech N9ne collabos album (the first being Misery Loves Kompany), the album has several guest appearances such as Krayzie Bone, Crooked I, Messy Marv and Chino XL.
Another album K.O.D. was released on October 26, 2009. The album featured a dark overtone, as Yates was dealing with the illness of his mother. An EP of new songs over unused beats from the K.O.D. album was released in 2010 as The Lost Scripts of K.O.D.
Later that year, Yates released his third Collabos album, The Gates Mixed Plate. In October, he released his second EP Seepage. On December 23, he released his first mixtape Bad Season, which was later released in retail CD form with a modified track list and without DJ Scream.
On June 7, 2011 Yates released All 6's And 7's. The album features several hip-hop artists as well as rock artists including B.o.B, E-40, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Mint Condition, Busta Rhymes, Twista, Lil Wayne, Yelawolf and Deftones.
In 2011, Yates told 411mania.com that after All 6's And 7's he planned on releasing his fourth album in the Collabos series titled Welcome to Strangeland, featuring guest appearances from everyone on Strange Music, followed by the long awaited K.A.B.O.S.H. and 816 Boyz albums.
Then, in July 2011, Yates said in a blog post that Rick Ross has agreed to do a song with him for the K.A.B.O.S.H. album and that he is also hoping to have a collaboration with Jay-Z on that album. In the same blog post, he said that the K.A.B.O.S.H. album will be a rock album.
