Impressions: 9 Mile Music Festival 2019 in Miami

Photos by Jan Ascanio & Dave Susser

Words by LargeUp Crew

As on online publication with readers all over the world, sometimes we want to interact with our peoples in the physical plane. We also have some fly new items about to go live on the LargeUp Shop and figured we’d bring em to the masses at the 9 Mile Music Festival 2019 in Miami, Florida. The lineup was pretty epic to begin with, names like Shabba, Busy, Sizzla, Capleton, Spice, Mighty Crown, etc. But it kept getting more interesting as Bronx based band, Royal Khaoz, (whose single “Show Me Your Motion” premiered here on LargeUp a couple months ago) were added as a last minute addition.

We deh ya enuh, the LargeUp Shop live in living color…

Healing of the nation…

Red Stripe vs Guinness! Japanese massive representin’…

A Trini and a Jamaican walk into a reggae festival…

Bronx based band, Royal Khaoz, were a last minute addition and definitely did their thing, did you catch our premiere of their single, “Show Me Your Motion.” 

Got flower?

Everton Blender takes the stage…

Colorful, blended harmonies.

Everton Blender reminded us how powerful his live performance is with anthems like “Ghetto People Song” and “Lift Up Your Head.”

Vibes!

King of pins. If you’ve been to South Beach, chances are you recognize this man, and his pins.

That jerk had me like…

Few, if any, have pushed reggae music in Florida, for as long and consistently as Lance O, who held it down as a host of the event.

Miami’s own, Johnny Numbas…

Vendor dem deh ya!

Soon as it got dark out, Instagram personality, Pretty V, took over hosting duties…

Jerk life

Plantain based…

“Mi need a man pon di stage,” said Spice toward the end of her first song…

Spice did, well… what Spice does

Headtop you don’t stop…

DJ Gravy and photographer, Jan Ascanio…

Capleton with Royal Khaoz members Coco and Bama

Still blazin’

Shoe game on point!

Big, dutty, stinkin, SHABBA!

None a dem nuh bad like Di Rankin’. None a dem!

Mighty Crown’s Sami-T

Masta Simon bringing the ruckus!

I Addidas! Regardless of the rain, Sizzla Kalonji blazed through his set of anthemic hit after hit…

After a lotta rain, no one was sure what would happen, DJ Green Lantern spun classic hip hop for a while after a lotta fans left, the Illmatic one took to the stage…

I know I can, be what I wanna be. If I work hard at it, I’ll be where I wanna be…

Nas brings out P Diddy!

Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley enters the stage and takes the real fans who stuck around on “The Road To Zion.”

Respect

Pahty dun…