Roseville based rap group S.S. Elegance recently landed their first live gig in a clothing and art shop in Sacramento on Sunday Sept. 4.

The group consisted of Roseville High School seniors Ash Cayabyab a.k.a. A$H TRAPPEM,  EJ Susbilla a.k.a SUSKILLA,  juniors Kyle Bernardo a.k.a. LIL KON THE LOSTBOI and  Larry Melnik a.k.a. Meleazy along with other members from their group.

S.S.E. performed alongside other local rappers like Abstract Ninjaa, LSDS and more. S.S.E. performed a 25 minute set of all original music in front of friends, family and strangers.

According to Susbilla the group found that their first live performance was a gratifying experience  and they were glad to be able to publicly display their talent.

“Displaying our music to the youth and performing to the public was an honor,” Susbilla said.

They enjoyed and valued having the experience. Cayabyab believes that the future is bright and will offer more opportunities to perform.

“To me, it’s only the beginning,” Cayabyab said. “The show gave us an opportunity to get hyphy and show how hard our energy is.”

According to Bernardo,publicly performing  not only allowed them to go out and promote their music but it also gave them the chance to be in their element.

“Honestly it was nothing, doing music with my brodies all day, everyday feels the same,” Bernardo said. “We up soon S.S.E.”

Many mutual friends of the group showed up to show their support.

“It was good to see all my homies in the crowd getting hyped up to our music,” Cayabyab said. “I hope that in the future we get bigger venues and more people are able to come out.”

S.S. Elegance got the invitation to perform because of a connection between one of the members and local rapper Abstract Ninjaa. Abstract Ninjaa had heard their music on soundcloud and felt that they’d make a great addition to the set.

S.S.E. was the opening act and took on the job of  exciting the crowd  for the rest of the set. Not being on an elevated stage, they were able to be one with the crowd and have a more personal experience with their fans.

The audience was very  responsive and was jumping around and dancing while singing along to the songs that they knew.