Moda Mansion in KCK: So Crunk It’ll Rot Your Teeth

By JASON HARPER

Oh. My. Crunk.

I had no idea what I was getting into last night, rolling up outside this two-story-plus-patio-plus-huge-outdoor-tent venue on KCK. I came out for a hip-hop show featuring rappers from Block Life Entertainment who’d come by the office two days ago to invite me out. Well, I’m not even sure you could call what happened last night “a hip-hop show.” It was more like a giant-ass binge with some rappers getting up on a stage toward the end of it. Holy shit, the place got DOWN.

Click on the photo for a truly epic slide show.

Moda Mansion, by the way, is on Kansas Avenue just East of the 7th Street Tfwy, past a McDonald’s and a bank. The place has been open in various formats for years and was a salsa club before new owners brought in hip-hop a few months ago. There’s a hip-hop throwdown every Thursday and, I think — correct me if I’m wrong — Saturday nights. Bear in mind, as you review my photographic evidence, this was a Thursday. I can’t imagine what it’s like on Saturday.

The performers included DJ Sun-Up Jones, a bunch of gorgeous dames, City Life, Block Life’s Dennis “Wescrook” Westbrook and Dandrae “Cku Koo Bird” Jones and some dudes from Major Factor Records, including Rushin Roolet and Felix Mitchell the Billionaire. If I have any names wrong, forgive me. I know I’m leaving people out.

And for any white people who are intimidated by venues like this, let me tell you I felt totally at ease at Moda, even before I got drunk. And I’m definitely going back.