The dry nature of this set may be the anomaly of this very tour should Lil Donald continue on to open first as intended Ty$’ versatile repertoire will prove very useful down the stretch in setting the melodic vibes before Future Hendrix’s melancholy hit parade. The team I came with kept asking whether or not the crowd would be as lit as Ty$ insinuates in the “Blase” video moshpit he truly looked unafraid of death on-screen, but rest assured it was much too early to effectively crowd-surf any willing participants. This scheduling jump set the Orpheum ablaze with a confused energy since so many people missed Ty$, though they didn’t miss much outside of a thrown joint, a TeeCee4800 appearance, the obligatory Taylor Gang shout outs, and (surprisingly) the only removed shirt of the evening, Ty$’ performance was very give-and-go as he breezed through highlights of the catalog in spite of Donald’s absence.
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In fact, the floor was two-thirds full by the time he ended.įreeband Gang-signee Lil Donald - a man with 533 Facebook likes and a September mixtape called Freeband Loyal - was nowhere to be found despite being the alleged opener on the card, which probably accounts for the waves of late attendees who pregamed for much longer than they anticipated after all.
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The second mystery: why did Ty Dolla $ign touch the stage five minutes before the projected showtime of a prompt 8 p.m.? Donning a black leather jacket in pure rockstar fashion, Young Dolla Sign’s set was a quick and to-the-point 30 minutes spanning the hits - Or Nah, Paranoid, Irie, Blase - without many of the frills. In Madison - ergo, in most of these United States - finding anyone Black at a rap show is a treasure hunt to potentially feel safer in the midst of kids huddling up to obviously smoke really bad reggie, make corny mainstream rap jokes, and say “nigga” at every opportunity because they believe it came with the price of admission. But that Madisonian tension was fully in the building: the type of tension where you can find a Black male in a Pelle Pelle jacket next to a high schooler with a golf hat low on their forehead next to a white sophomore on her Snapchat half the show. The first visible mystery: why the fuck were all these white men wearing these assorted basketball jerseys? Did “Jersey” ring off in the club that much and I missed it all? Never the matter, for white men were overwhelmingly the demographic per usual for almost any Madison rap show.
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Why Fire Marshall Future - the hottest MC of the last year-and-a-half - began his route here is one of several mysteries of last night. More artists are picking up on Wisconsin’s capitol city: a city with a bubbling rap underground where high schoolers are receiving national attention while dealing with the same strain of casual systemic oppression that causes venues to ban the genre if one person sneaks a gun past security or starts a fight one night. When you consider Future’s Purple Reign Tourbeginning in Madison over Chicago or Milwaukee, the whole backdrop becomes stranger by the passing second.
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Various pockets of Madison, Wisconsin have spent the last two months anticipating headline shows from Future and Fetty Wap in a schedule anomaly: two of the highest-profile rap artists of the last year-and-a-half, in the same downtown concert hall, three days apart, during Black History Month.