From bedroom to the stage...

[kilenem]

Hello fellow gearslutz, long time forum lurker here with my first post.

I've been making hip-hop songs with my friend (an MC) since january. We've got a bunch of material ready and are looking to play some live shows around town. My only experience playing gigs has been in guitar bands, so this is pretty new to me. So far I've narrowed it down to two ways we could perform our songs live:

1. Serato Scratch Live + turntables
Would be a pretty standard hip hop set up, I have turntables/mixer/laptop already.
2. Ableton Live + cdj
Could set up our tracks so that I could tweak and *remix* them a bit on the fly, triggering samples/loops. Still would have the ability to scratch my own Scratch tracks with the cdj.

Aside from this being a matter of taste and what would work best for me, does anyone have any other set-ups I should consider, or see anything I'm missing, tips, etc?

Any thoughts would be great,

Thanks!