Rae Sremmurd : S
In the past six months , I have been to some of the biggest tours that music had to offer . Literally , within 2 months , I saw Drake on the Summer Sixteen Tour , Kanye on the Saint Pablo Tour , and Beyoncé on the Formation World Tour . I ’ m forever grateful for those experiences , but there is something special about shorter tours from smaller artists . Even though the artists may not be able to pack Phillips Arena or gross $ 50 million off of one fall stretch , they still produce some of the most special tour experiences that I have ever witnessed .
October 1 , 2016 marked my return to The Tabernacle in Atlanta since November 2015 when I got the chance to see Wale , 2 Chainz , Waka Flocka , Lucci , and Kap G thanks to my student fees at Georgia Perimeter College . I had gone nearly a full year without attending a tour that wasn ’ t “ stadium status .” As a result , there were things that I had simply forgotten about . I had forgotten about waiting in line for hours , just so you could get a good view of the stage . As painful as it got sometimes , I always met the coolest people waiting in those lines and waiting for the show to start sandwiched between people that you don ’ t even know . Sometimes you ’ d get lucky and be totally surrounded by baddies that , but most of the time you ’ d find yourself awkwardly uncomfortable and unhappy while being ass-to-pelvis with some weird dude who doesn ’ t seem to know any of the songs playing in the meantime . All of that was , and it really always was , worth it when the artist that you came to see finally came out and went ham .
Like I said before , my last string of concerts had spoiled me , but now I was about to be thrust into the real world and the most authentic music scene as possible because that night I was going to see Rae Sremmurd for the Sremmlife 2 Tour , along with supporting act Lil Yachty .
I met my boy Corey at The Tabernacle , and I was extremely lucky that he had done his due diligence and got there a while before doors opened . As I walked down Luckie Street about 25 minutes before doors , he let me chill with him towards the front of the line . The scene was vibrant with a street musician , college students from Atlanta , an assortment of white girls who may have already had something to drink , and the kids whose parents were cool enough to let them go to a concert on a school night . Dope shit people ; this is legit who I look forward to seeing everywhere I go .
Little did I know though , the people in attendance were going to be my least favorite part of the night . As we huddled up downstairs , I was in a beautiful position . There were no guys destroying me from the back and there wasn ’ t anyone tall in front of me , and I ’ m not even going to flex , I was having a bunch of fun . I withstood the DJ set , Bobo Swae ( who had a lit set for an artist that still isn ’ t that well known ), and Eearz ( who kicked me with what felt like Timbs when he jumped into the crowd ). The artists to grace the stage were doing their job really well , entertaining everyone regardless of how well the audience knew their music . It was the people surrounding me that were killing my vibe . Lil Boat was coming up next , so all of the people here to see him were front and center . With this being my first Yachty concert , I had never been around his fan base like that . Those people at that concert were annoying as shit . I could understand their thirst for Yachty , but they were also acting like they had never been to a concert like this before .
“ OH MY FUCKING GOD BACK UP !” “ BRUH IF I GET PUSHED ONE MORE TIME , I SWEAR
TO GOD !” “ OH MY GOSH , IS THAT HIS DICK ?” All of those claims really do sound legit , but take them into context . We are at the tabernacle- keep in mind it ’ s sold out- and it always gets like this . All of those uncomfortable things are just a part of the experience , and it ’ s something that you ’ ve just got to let go and forget about to enjoy the show . These people must not have not known that because they complained the entire show until “ LIL BOAT !” blasted from the speakers . I think it was safe to say that it was the first concert for a lot of the people there , and no one really told them what it was going to be like . But all pf their frowns