WTF!? N.E.R.D. and Clipse are playing a show at UMKC this weekend!?

I about shit my pants a few minutes ago, when I stumbled upon an announcement at HipHopKC.com that N.E.R.D. and Clipse — two of my favorite hip-hop groups of the past few years — are playing a show at UMKC this Saturday, April 11. I found a press release buried on the Star‘s site; a call to UMKC’s central ticket office confirmed it. Sponsored by the University’s Activity and Program Council (APC), the show is at Swinney Recreation Center at 7 p.m. Click here or on the web flyer below for ticket info.

It’s possible that a combination of bad PR plus a whopping $27.50 ticket price for non-students ($5 if you’re a lucky Kangaroo) has kept this show under-hyped. Holy shit. Damn. Well, I may have to buck up and go. N.E.R.D. put on one of the best shows I saw at SXSW 2008. And Clipse’s 2006 masterpiece Hell Hath No Fury, produced by the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of N.E.R.D.) is always on rotation at the Wayward crib, because of jams like this and this.