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Does he got bars? Rapper hypes Mighty Tribe's opening slot for GZA at the Garden Amp

The clip is filmed outside the Anaheim Marketplace swap meet. A rapper in a black polo, @baybehrichhh, holds up a handful of tickets and announces GZA at the Garden Grove Amphitheater on Sept. 30, "opened up by the Mighty Tribe." Most of the roughly 80-second clip is his verse, rapped next to a kiddie ride shaped like a yellow jeep. He closes by repeating the date and venue.

Wu-Tang Clan's GZA was booked for the Garden Amp in Garden Grove on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with the Mighty Tribe set to open. Juice Unlocked posted the promo the day before and asked readers one simple question: does he got bars?

The "he" is the rapper behind @baybehrichhh, who the post says had tickets to the show. He shot his pitch outside the Anaheim Marketplace, the indoor swap meet whose sign calls it Orange County's largest. He holds up a handful of tickets, then goes straight into a verse that shouts out the Mighty Tribe.

The venue

The Garden Amp sits at 12762 Main St. in Garden Grove, in the area where the city's annual Strawberry Festival takes place. Songkick lists its capacity at 540. Along with its main outdoor stage, it has two smaller spaces, The Locker Room and The Treehouse, OC Music News reported in 2022.

The venue is all ages and has been known for punk, ska, reggae and rock shows. Because of the city's noise ordinance, shows there have to end on time, the same report said.

GZA in Garden Grove

This was not GZA's first Garden Amp booking. TicketWeb listed "GZA of Wu-Tang Clan (Liquid Swords + the hits)" with Killah Priest at the venue on Sunday, May 31, an all-ages show from 5 to 10 p.m. The listing calls his 1995 solo album Liquid Swords one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time.

This time, the opening slot went to the Mighty Tribe. The post also tags @outdahouse.

Sources

  1. OC Music News: The Industry Report #4: Garden Amp, Mar 3, 2022
  2. Songkick: Garden Amphitheatre, Garden Grove (venue page)
  3. TicketWeb: GZA of Wu-Tang Clan (Liquid Swords + the hits) + Killah Priest, Garden Amphitheatre

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