Pusha T and Malice still talk about the Knitting Factory show. I still talk about it, too. If you were there, then I bet you still talk about it. It was a special night — a moment when you could see potential turn into cold, hard reality. It felt like everyone I knew was in that room that night, like we were all levitating. The Knitting Factory was not necessarily supposed to be the venue for that kind of night. I knew the room well, worked the door there for a few months in 2000. It wasn’t a big room. 400-cap. Tribeca. Rich neighbors calling in noise complaints all the time. It wasn’t the place for the most exciting rap show in the world, until it was.
