If you read last week's column, you read my words about Tyrone Love (RIP). Well, if you're one of the lucky, lucky people who gets this fish wrapper hot off the presses on Wednesday morning—as opposed to you sorry suckers who get it cold on Thursday—you should know about the benefit show going down at Nectar on Wednesday, March 4. Called The Peace Project, it features Khingz, D.Black, and Dyme Def, not to mention an all-star edition of Big World Breaks, featuring Okanomode, Sirius, Toni Hill, GodSpeed, and Yirim Seck. The proceeds are to directly benefit the families of Joseph "29-E" Ryan and Tyrone Love. If you get this message in time, be there! Also, I wanna send out a big shout to everybody involved with the fundraiser at Columbia City Theater from last week—they raised a lot for Tyrone's family.

That said, I know you need some soul therapy as much as I do—let me suggest peeping out the one and only Raphael Saadiq down at Showbox at the Market on March 5. My man put out one of my very favorite records of 2008, The Way I See It, a collection of songs truly deserving of the title of his earlier solo record Instant Vintage: just gorgeous, earnest, heart-stirring soul, evoking the ghosts of '60s Motown and beyond without resorting to mere emulation. Go see him—ideally with somebody you really like to kick it tough with—and breathe a little.

Our guy Greevy-Grieves is back, swinging through Nectar on March 7 on his Winters and Losers tour with Soulcrate Music and Type (he of male-pattern baldness) of the Let Go. The Let Go recently had their song "Booty Fiend" featured on The City, that fucking Hills spin-off that all of your girlfriends love and you (hopefully) openly despise. (It plays at the 10-minute mark for you DVR-ing sons/daughters of bitches.) Despite my slight distaste (yuck, puke, death) for scripted "reality" shows, I nonetheless applaud the gentlemen for that mighty good look. Like ewmigawd!

Another cat you might catch on your TV is K'naan; the Mogadishu-born MC has recently been burning up MTV like Winona Ryder in the '90s, and now he's coming to Neumos on March 10 to rock for you! My man Gabe Teodros, Yze (who I saw tear it up a few Corners ago with Orbitron—look out for mami, y'all), and that dude DJ Daps1 open up. I was tripping just recently because I happened to catch the video for K'naan's "ABCs" and my fucking guy Chubb Rock was on it, spitting over its updated "Treat Em Right" drumbeat! I guess it takes someone born outside the U.S. to show proper respect to a legend, but hopefully others will follow suit (yeah right)—when are we gonna see Hot Dog dancing in a video? I'm sure Soulja Boy is a big A.T.E.E.M. fan... and if you get that reference, my friend, you are old.