Photos: Rock The Bells 2012 Live in San Bernardino
On August 18th and 19th, the city of San Bernardino played host for one of the largest hip-hop festivals of the year, Rock The Bells presented by Guerilla Union. On one of the hottest weekends of the summer, the National Orange Show hosted over 50 different artists performing at one of three stages at the huge outdoor venue. Performances included the reunion of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony performing their album E.1999 Eternal in its entirety, Redman and Method Man performing the Blackout album for the first time, 2-Chainz, Common, Machine Gun Kelly, Pusha T, DJ Quik, Mix Master Mike, Too Short and E-40, DMX & Eve, Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa, Nas, Hieroglyphics, Deltron 3030, as well as hip hop collective supergroups The Hit Squad (made up of members EPMD, K-Solo, Redman, Das-EFX, DJ Scratch, and Keith Murray) and Wu Block (joining members of the D-Block, Sheek Louch and Styles P., with members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah). Legendary hip hop acts including Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty By Natur, and Big Daddy Kane also performed showing the newer generations of hip-hop how to rock a party.
Saturday highlights:
2 Chainz
Common
Jadakiss
KRS-One
Machine Gun Kelly
Naughty By Nature
Method Man and Redman
Sunday highlights:
DJ Quik
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Deltron 3030
Hieroglyphics
Mix Master Mike
Pusha T
Salt-n-Pepa
Too Short
E40
Ice Cube
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Photos: Rock The Bells 2012 Live in San Bernardino
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