As you may already be aware of I am a LOVER of music. I have been to several concerts and by far this concert has been the 3rd best I've been to. Who beat out the almighty Yeezus? The Fray. The Fray came to my home town about 2 years ago. They didn't have a cool set and they didn't even have openers that I knew who they were. BUT when they sung it sounded like i had just popped in their CD in my CD player. I was amazed by their vocals and their willingness to jump in the crowd with out body guards running to them for safety.
The 2nd best concert i went to was The Monsters Ball. At the time i loved Lady GAGA. Although after i left the concert I did not like her so much but i will say her concert did leave a lasting effect on me. Her stage concepts were AMAZING. I felt like someone was reading a story to me. Also i learned how talented Lady GAGA was musically. She is an amazing singer and without all of the theatrics i think if you sat her in the middle of the stage with just a stool and a mic you would still be blown away by her.
Now YEEZUS
Dont hate hate me because you specifically said in your concert that people were going to say " this is the best concert set you've ever seen for a rap artist." " instead you should say this is the best set for any artist you've seen. TRUE & false. but the latter that i reported explains that. through my nose bleed seats, that i purchased 3 hours before the concert for 59.99 was in my opinion the best seats in the house. I dint need to touch Kanye. Or smell the sweat off his back. I want to feel the experience that the crowd is feeling through the music he is performing. Does that make sense?
This concert exceeded all of my expectations. The Opener for this concert was a Tribe Called Quest. Well Known rap duo/ group from the 90s. Actually they were a big influence to Kanye and his music. Especially College Drop Out & Graduation. Where I'm from there are not many people who know who ATCQ is . And as much as i like to think i am musically in tuned to life I couldn't tell you any of the words to any of their songs. BUT to the New York and Brooklyn natives ( BK is where they are from) they were going crazy. I saw kids way younger than me screaming all verses . All ethnicity's. They didn't have much of a set . A runway and a screen. Busta Rhymes came by for a verse . And for Bonita Applebum they had a very thickilicious painted woman strut her stuff on the stage. (10 thumbs up)
Kanye is a very talented artist. I have loved him since through the wire. Graduation got me thru college. 808 and heartbreaks broke my heart but got me through winter which is always a dark time for me. Dark Fantasy was a great album. BUT when i got Yeezus ( i didn't even listen to it on leak before i got it { Go me}) I was initially disappointed. My friend Anna told me to keep listening to it. But after i did i only settled on maybe 3/10 songs that i liked. After attending this concert I understood why this album didn't appeal to me. { talk about that later}
Did i tell y'all this was in Brooklyn's Barkclays Center? Beautiful arena, and right off of the subway system.
This was the set list:
"On Sight"
"New Slaves""Send it Up"
"Mercy"
"Power"
"Cold"
"BLKKK SKKKN Head"
"Don't Like (Remix)"
"I Am a God"
"Can't Tell Me Nothing"
"Coldest Winter"
"Hold My Liquor"
"I'm in It"
"Guilt Trip"
"Heartless"
"Blood on the Leaves"
"I Wonder"
"Runaway"
"Hey Mama"
"Street Lights"
"Lost in the World"
"Heard 'em Say"
"Stronger"
"Through the Wire"
"Jesus Walks"
"Flashing Lights"
"All of the Lights"
"Bound 2"
The only thing that would have made my experience better was All Fails Down, with a special guest of Stacey Dash strutting that ass on stage.
I appreciate Kanyes enthusiasm as he presented his music. I loved the set, the lights OMG THE LIGHTS, " White Jesus" { How much do you pay " White Jesus"}, the choir " naked girls, and of course the rant. ( Post to follow about that)
Now i can do without the expensive face masks. Me personally i like to look at people in the eyes. I'm a creeper so i need to see your facial expressions.
I would add a video but A i was in the nose bleeds B my iPhone was doing some ungodly things while i was in NYC. So i dint have very many videos and the ones i do have are less than 30 seconds. C i have no idea how to add videos on this blog.. { I'm a bad blogger, I'm sorry}
When Kanye was getting his set ready all of these empty seats were packed OUTTT! don't let this picture fool.AMN2
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