Fresh off of headlining New York's City Solar Powered Festival, Blitz the Ambassador returns to the stage this saturday night at the historic Joe's Pub in New York City! www.myspace.com/blitztheambassador Please let me know if you would like to be added to the guest list! Heres what Okayplayer.com had to say about his City Sol performance: http://www.okayplayer.com/content/view/5997/60/The next performer (at The City Sol Festival)was Brooklyn (by way of Ghana) rapper, Blitz the Ambassador, the real reason I even attempted to stand in the rain for a free concert. I refused to preview any of his music after being told how dope he was and that he performed with a live band. I figured sight unseen, if he was really that good, he'd have me at 'One, two, one, two.' Sure enough, I left that set open. Blitz embodies everything to love about hip-hop that the media never talks about: thoughtful prose, unbridled energy, complete mastery of a crowd and a sense of boyish glee that he really couldn't be happier doing anything else. He even got in on the solar-powered fun when he took a minute to shout out the now hidden sun. I don't think any rapper could have sounded so convincingly un-corny thanking Mother Nature (except maybe Ghostface), but Blitz had me believing he could do anything. There were signs of a heavy Black Thought influence from a couple "Web"-like verses over sparse beats, his repeated acknowledgements of his band ("You are now rockin' with the Almighty Embassy Ensemble") and a little singing thrown in for good measure. His horn section added to the orchestral, cosmic vibe under the muggy night sky as Blitz closed his set with "Remembering the Future": "I am who I am/you can never change me/Reaching for the sun/Remembering the future."
