Born of the considerably more barren Milwaukee hip-hop scene of the mid-'90s, The Rusty Ps have in recent years taken on a role as the scene's elder statesmen, playing shows and collaborating with the younger talent that now proliferates the city. Like many of the city's hip-hop acts, they idolize the genre as it existed in its earlier, party-friendly and uplifting incarnations, but they're not strict traditionalists. On their latest record, 2008's The Shape of Things to Come, they rap over slightly offkilter funk beats that are all their own. They share a bill tonight with fellow local hip-hop acts AUTOMatic, Kid Cut Up and DJ Bizzon.
Rusty Ps w/ AUTOMatic, Kid Cut Up and DJ Bizzon
Tonight @ Bay View Brew Haus, 9 p.m.
