JOSE S. GUTIERREZ JR.: THIS IS A HUGE SHOW >>>

A night of partying and paying homage to some of the Northwest’s best hip-hop artists is in store at The Royal Lounge in downtown Olympia for tonight’s Body Rock 1.0 party.

The Body Rock 1.0 features the clever combo of Black Stax (made up of Seattle underground hip-hop icons The Silent Lambs Project and songstress Felicia Loud) and DJ TC Islam (son of Afrika Bambaataa) â€" who formed in 2008 following a series of successful collabos.  Also featured is Khingz formerly Khalil Crisis â€" one half of super duo, Abyssinian Creole (with Gabriel Teodros) and recipient of Seattle Magazine’s Hip-Hop album of the year 2009 for his futuristic masterpiece, From Slaveships to Spaceships. 

Olympia’s own SP aka Slo Poke and Source Unsigned Hype Alumnus will take the stage with upstart MC, Icky Spitz to shut the stage down and make way for 25360 DJ of The Year 2008, DJ Drastic and DJ Sweet Elite with yours truly being blessed to host the joint! 

I couldn’t not get down with this lineup.

Check out a dope show tonight.

[The Royal Lounge, Thursday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m., $5, 311 Capital way, Olympia, 360.705.0760]