Upon entering the STAPLES Center, LA’s ccolossalarena, the first thing that is noticed is the style of all the concert attendees. Women sporting custom OVO Owl crop tops and men closely following behind them in the freshest LA-based street wear. The show started promptly at 7 causing me to miss Future’s set but I fortunately got to catch a glimpse of Miguel. The only way I could describe Miguel‘s performance is drowned in fringe. Black leather fringe down his jacket sleeves, down his leather pants and all the way down his custom mic stand.
After Miguel exits, the lights go up in the house and it’s a party in anticipation of Aubrey Graham. All of the sudden the crowd starts cheering, which confused me because the lights were up and the house DJ was still going. I glance over to the VIP area to see Kris Jenner with her Kardashian minions waving to the crowd a la Michelle Obama. It was appalling and invigorating at the same damn time.
Finally the lights go down and Drake appears on stage. His performance balances between the hardest rapper in the game to modern pop crooner. His rapping hits hard with the highlights being “Worst Behavior” and bringing out opener Future for “Same Damn Time.”
For “Hold on Were Going Home”, Drake brings up Gina from the crowd, turns down all the stage antics and sings directly to her, telling Gina, “Damn you look fine like Martha Stewart in your canary yellow sweater“. Drake announced to the crowd “If you came with a date tonight, you are definitely getting lucky tonight. Between Miguel and myself we’ve set you up for a home run“, which of course was true.
Besides Future, Drake brought all his friends to the stage including YMCMB frontman Birdman, Nicki Minaj, R&B princess Jhene Aiko, and local legend Snoop Dogg (or is it Lion now?).
On the night Drake solidified his place as a number one player in rap, R&B and pop music impressing the audience with his confidence, style, and plethora of number one hits.
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Post by Robin Petering / twitter: @monstertrvcks
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