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The sun came down just in time for Ice Cube’s Truth to Power - Four Decades of Attitude tour’s arrival at the Pacific Coliseum in East Van. Or maybe that was the overwhelming amount of black attire that dawned on the Coliseum—I didn’t check Facebook Marketplace prices for Oakland Raiders attire in the days leading up to the show, but you can bet that Warren Sapp and Darren McFadden jerseys were commanding a pretty penny. I’m not sure if Raiders games see that many Raiders jerseys come through the turnstiles. (They also almost definitely don’t see that many smoke clouds, and we’re not talking about wildfires.)

Even inside the arena, the aroma of chronic was ubiquitous, as one might ex

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