Get Right
Columbus's hottest monthly dance party is intemperance at its finest
By Josh Fitzwater |
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The doorman enigmatically lost his finger. Currency from a foreign country was raining from the rafters, only to be set ablaze. Ventilation piping was torn down after being used as a makeshift jungle gym.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Get Right, the city's mobile monthly dance party installment of unpredictable antics and some of the best beat mash-ups in town.
Get Right dance crowd and DJ Johnny Cashola
Photo: David Heasley
On any given night there are 50-700 people that are in total agreement with you - making Get Right Columbus's premier choice to get down. Creators Kareem Jackson, Johnny Cashola, and DJ Detox have one goal in mind for you: to completely let loose.
Kareem Jackson knows a thing or two about making things work. Owner of the ultra-hip clothing retailer Milk Bar, he describes his funkified brain trust as "a high-energy dance party with all-around rap music where anything goes" . . . sometimes at the cost of structural integrity.
"There are some songs we just can't play anymore because things get too crazy," Kareem the party-master says. "When Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy play, things get torn down."
Local DJs Detox and Johnny Cashola, who are releasing a mixtape this summer, certainly know a thing or two about playing and making music that compels people to stand up and act-a-fool. They both come from Columbus's finest lineage of lyrical word-smithing and 808-dropping rap-masters, Blueprint and Envelope.
The Get Right boys keep it interesting by featuring themed parties such as ski-mask night, and an evening entirely devoted to "making it rain."
"One night, we bought a bucket of fake money and mixed it with real money from some African country, and people made it rain the entire night," Kareem said. "The pictures from that night were ridiculous."
What separates Get Right from the countless other dance parties devoted to pleasure-seeking tomfoolery is that Cashola, Detox, and Kareem endlessly hone their craft to make Get Right as accessible to everyone as possible.
Whether your move is the Jersey Shore fist-pump, the pop-and-lock, the Carlton, or the robot, Get Right will accept you for who you are and force you to have one of the best nights of your life, whether you're ready or not.
While Get Right happens on the first Friday of every month, the location tends to jump around some. Keep tabs on when and where the next Get Right will be riotously occurring at www.wewillattack.net, or search "Get Right" on Facebook.com.
Submit your Get Right photos for our (614) Gallery to victoria@614columbus.com
Originally Published: March 1, 2010
