The ticket frenzy surrounding Ravid Plotnik and Tuna's joint performance has long since been forgotten, or as Plotnik predicted it in the song "Up" from the album "And Now for the Art Part": "You forgot that Tuna and I performed in Tmuna in front of exactly 15 people, eh?"
It happened only last March, but within a few hours, 45,<> people stormed tickets for three performances at Live Park in Rishon LeZion, proving to anyone who thought, feared, imagined, hesitated to mention out loud - Israeli rap will blow up any worthy compound here.
And I'm not at all talking about the fish snake or Mercedes Band, for whom filling a park is an almost routine task - the explosion of the genre was recently proven by Beck S and Subliminal and Shadow with flashbacks from the Ninties that brought thousands out of the house. Even Oded Paz and the pajamas know that hamburgers sell tickets.
A duo unlike anything else. Tuna and Ravid Plotnik at Zappa Live Park,
In total, about 90,<> tickets were sold for all six shows, with three added due to demand. You have fallen on the right generation, my souls. No offense. Almost two months after those who blink find themselves reading only these lines, yesterday they went on their first show. "Let us make history," Tuna (Itai Zevulun) asked just before the explosion began with his "cowboy."
I can throw out great duos in the history of Israeli music here, but the model of Plotnik and Tuna is unlike anything else. Seven years ago, they took the stage together at Zappa Shoni, a much more modest hostel and at a time when they were just beginning to fill the halls in Israel. They sold 1,500 tickets, which in terms of Israeli hip-hop and rap is nothing less than the birth of a new galaxy.
Fast forward seven years and they are already Shlomo Artzi and Shalom Hanoch, Barry and Rami and for moments even a little Arik and Shalom in their wildest and most beautiful time. But forget comparisons, and without offending anyone, two samurai took the stage, one with a Casio watch: Ladies & Gentmelans Get the Rap Kings of the Middle East.
They crowned themselves a long time ago, back in the days of the Grand Mall in Petah Tikva, and now this is only a stamp for those who insist. Tuna and Plotnik are the current answer to the question of what is Israeli in your eyes? They are the line connecting Petah Tikva to the world. And we are Petah Tikva. All of us. Including those who were stuck at the end of the performance in the sands of Rishon LeZion. Like watching soccer in Israel in the Ninties, without access roads and with dust in their shoes.
Sometimes dreams come true. Tuna and Ravid Plotnik together with Nir Danan,
Live Park took it to another level when it came to "good music" and the concluding line: "Give me good music and I'm happy." Emotion played a major role in this evening. After a spectacular sequence of songs from the best of the sets ("Shawarma", "All This Time", "My Atonement" by Plotnik, "Hey Babe", "This too will pass" and "30 Rock" by Tuna) we moved to a level of excitement that exists only east of Tel Aviv. Well, in Petah Tikva.
Tuna and Plotnik took chairs, added the excellent guitarist Nir Danan, sat center stage and moved to an electrified encamplad. When Tuna opened with "New Day," he couldn't complete a line in tears. That's how fantasies come true, eh? This continues with Plotnik's "Dog Who Doesn't Love You" and their joint "UFO." Hip-hop in Hebrew is mainstream now. And it's so good.
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