3091: The Kendrick/Sza Grand National Tour Concert Review

Rod and Karen recap the Kendrick/Sza Grand National Tour concert they attended. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Rod and Karen are hunt Her.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome to the Blackouts Podcast. I'm your host, joint is
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I guess we can just get right into it because
we won't have much time tonight. I have previous obligations planning.
But you know, we wanted I know some of y'all
wanted to know about the Kendrick concert and what it
was like and how a time was there. So we
probably just talk about that mostly. Uh, let's see. So

(00:49):
the best thing to say, I guess you look, it
was so ironic a year ago to like the day
Kendrick clapback on Drake like it was that day. Yeah,
people been celebrating it like it's the anniversary, you know,
so so like that that was like a fun thing.

(01:11):
Let me let me, let me make sure I got
that exactly right. But I think it was the exact
day that I want to say he dropped euphoria or
something like that, or like Euphoria was August thirtieth, so
April thirtieth was April thirtieth, and the concert was like
April or May third or something like that. So like

(01:36):
it was like people was like celebrating it like this,
this is the day the beef officially like got got
under got underway Euphoria. And then of course we all know,
you know the rest of them, we all know what
happened after that, the end of Drake as a you know,
as more than a punchline for a lot of people basically.

(02:00):
But yeah, so so I thought, you know what, a
what who would have thought a year from now we
would be at a concert in Charlotte, right in Charlotte,
in the in the in the stadium for where the
Panthers playing normally lose.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yes, it's a huge stadium, though.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, like who would have thought that we would be
here getting to like actually experience this uh together. And
you know, for those that know, I'm I'm what I
would call it Kendrick Lamar day two fan. Yeah, you know,
I wouldn't say day one because I wasn't there for
overly dedicated meaning I listened, I overly dedicated was out

(02:42):
and I just had not.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Heard of Kendrick Lamar like that. And then.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Section eighty drop that section that's when I that's when
I entered the frame.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, and when section eighty dropped, I was like, who
is this guy? Need to know everything about his music?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
He became.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, he became one of our favorite rappers. Like
I don't want to say instantly, but definitely, like within
short short work he became one of my favorite rappers.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
And it's down.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So yeah, I was, you know, so this was a
long time coming for us.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I've never seen him a concert before.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Me either, Okay, yeah, this is yeah, this this is
our first time seeing him in concert, like and he's
been too shyd before but he normally comes to the
Charlotte Colosseum, and I know it's been a long time
since he's been like on tour tour. So that's why
I was like that tally funny. He's one of the
people like Beyonnestly. I was like, okay, I want to
go see you before you be like okay, I'm not

(03:40):
touring no more.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
And May third is the day he dropped six one
six in l A six sixteen in LA So that
you know that's the that's the that's the day. But
before he had dropped three days before. At any rate,
it's Saturday night. We're excited, and you know, you know
how you know we're excited it because it's It'll always

(04:01):
hurt my heart to this day. It'll never I'll never
be able to move on from this, but.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'm just gonna have to accept it. Naruto.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, the music from Now Tell to Anime was playing
with the orchestra in the blooming Thal Center for Performing Art.
I won't at the same time as a Kendrick Oamar thing,
And I.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Was like, whoever scheduled that? Just I don't know, Like.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
He probably don't think them ving diagrams overlap, but bitch,
you're looking at.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Him right, So hurt, I was like if they? I
was like, if they, I was like, can't y'all.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do two days?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
But that was literally the only day. I was like,
can y'all?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Honestly, they would have did an afternoon concert and a
nighttime concert.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I would have went to the afternoon and then went
to Kendrick.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
That's how That's how they'd have been like we They
were like, you, we're gonna play at twelve and eight. Well, bitch,
I'm there at twelve.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, but it's all good. So but that that's what
I'm saying. That's how hYP we was for Kendrick. It
was like fuck all that.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, And I was hurt because I was looking thought,
do it chat. I want to love to see that.
So if they get the traveling again, they're somewhere close.
Hopefully we get to see him maybe next time. And
that day they had been calling for rain, so I
was like, I don't have a poncho. So me and
Roger went to the Dick's Spoyting Good and apparently everybody

(05:19):
the Dix was handing to the concert.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, we went and got some ponchos because I just
google like way to get panchos and the Dick Sporting Good,
the bass whatever place. So we go to Dicks and
first of all, guys, the one we went to this is.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
A big ass Dix.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's huge.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
This Dix is huge.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
This is one of the most gigantic Dicks I've ever seen.
It's like and the outside of it's like like really
sturdy architect This Dick was.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
This Dix was hard as hell.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Like whenever they erected that Dick it's two stories like that,
it's Dell and the balls in this Dicks.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
There's so many balls the balls? Are you with these dicks? Okay?
Like this this Dicks was insane.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Okay, the amount of people that was on this dis
it was just every everybody was on this Dicks.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I've never seen him before. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
We go in in the Dicks and like, they have
the ponchos by the door.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I guess they knew. Somebody's smart ass manager was like
put because that was like, we don't want all these
people running through our store asking us for the ponchos.
Is put them bitches up front?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Did they just do it when it's raining they just
put all of them.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It would not be surprised that they probably pushed them
all towards the door.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Anyway, So we go in and uh, they're all by
the door, and I just see, like I'm looking around
the signs and I'm like, wait a minute, why would
everybody be at this bend by the door unless this
is probably where the ponchos are. And I especially noticed
that it was a lot of black people getting ponchos,
and so I was like, yeah, they probably going and
I think I even heard a couple of them like

(07:04):
refer to, you know, going to the concert. Your your
light is a little bit of friend your camera. Oh no,
but yeah it's no.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
But yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
They was like talking like, yeah, girl, we're gonna you know,
we're gonna be out there.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Let me be sure I get my clip bag. I
know they said somebody the dimensions.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, and they had the thing that it was like
this bag is the right side, you can take it
in the stadium, Like they were on it.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
They knew everybody was going to that goddamn concert.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
And Dix was like, we might not be selling a
lot of other ship today, but were selling pachos and
clear going to the NFL stadium bags without a gun.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, And they had all them ship stup front. It
was like here the you don't size, here's the kids size.
And I'm glad we went because I told Roger about
been about an hour. None of all these bitches gonna
be sold out.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
So the concert is supposed to start at seven. I
believe that's the start time, but we all know concerts
don't really start on time pretty much.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
But my mom was coming to get us at like five.
She was gonna drive us.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Over there or whatever, and it was already starting to
rain like bad. We got a thunderstorm warning lightning strike
within eight miles of the stadium, which means they have
to go into some type of inclement weather protocols. So
that meant that like they had to they were like
shelter in place, or if you're in the stadium already,

(08:25):
you had to go inside the like indoors of the
stadium to avoid lightning, and they can't declare it off
until they go thirty minutes without a lightning strike within
eight miles of the stadium. We're seeing this as we're
driving there. It's like, man, you know, I hope everything's
gonna go okay. And the sheer amount of people. You

(08:46):
knew parking was gonna be crazy. It's gonna be mad expensive,
and you were gonna probably to park pretty far away,
which I'm fine parking far away, but it was just
gonna probably be like a hass or whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
And we were getting.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
A little later start because of the inclement weather, which honestly, Gods,
that ship wasn't implement it was.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
It was clementing like shit. That ship was very it.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was not intermitting showers. Them showers was minting. Okay, we
get they was meant like too, like like two big
ass gloves on a kid at Christmas.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
The way them showers is meanting.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
But so we was riding. Your mama had the idea.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
No, yo, I had the idea. Karen does this all
the time.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
She gives my ideas away or she takes them, and
then she claimed I came up with this.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Sorry, I was getting to it.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I was like, cause we were like, the highways
already backed up, the rain is making shit slow, and
so I'm like, you know, we've never done this before,
but technically we could take the light rail there. And
I'm like, you know, and and the way out threw
the idea out there.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
It was like take it or leave it.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Like I'm not forcing the idea, but it's just like,
if you know, if y'all feel the same, maybe we
do like the light rail instead.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Because I've seen people take it to the Hornets game.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
To the Panthers games.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
The Panthers games happen, I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, I've seen people take it to the Hornets games
and it gets out right at the Hornet Stadium at
the at the Spectrum Center, and so that's where I
got like, oh, yeah, that people do this all the time.
Apparently with the Panthers, it does not let out right
in the stadium. It's like another twelve minute walk or something. Okay,
so to me, so the idea was, I was like,

(10:31):
I don't know where it gets out. I just know
it gets out downtown and we'll have to walk. But
could it be that much of a further walk than
going to the fucking parking line? So it's like anyway,
we were like, cool, let's give it a shot, you know.
And it's a new day to be trying something new,
but you know, and it's a day where you don't
want anything to go wrong.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
You want it. But we were so early it was like,
we'll probably be fine.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
So it's raining a little bit, but not cats and
dogs anymore.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Well, and like I think we paid.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I forget how I mean, three dollars or something for
the parking and then the actual train, which I didn't
know at the time. No one was buying tickets. They
were just getting on the train. They don't they apparently
don't check it that often. But I bought tickets just
in case they checked them, which in hindsight, I didn't
need to do.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
But I get on.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
We get on the train and we rided downtown and
it's just like a ten minute This is a nice
smooth rode. A few stops. Yes, get there downtown, don't
have to deal with traffic. It's very smart. I'll definitely
try it again during some Hornets games.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
For the Hornets games, yeah, I'll definitely tried it again.
Even if I go to the Panthers game, I might
try it again.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But uh so we get there, it's not too crowded
going down there and all that stuff because we're also
pretty early. Then we get to the to the to
the stop or whatever, start walking towards the place, and
every I'm like, I felt like every single person on
the street was walking to the concert.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
They were anybody.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
It felt like everyone was.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Walking towards that, like in that direction.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm ear hustling people behind us. They're making
jokes about stuff. This one crew of guys was talking
about things gonna bring Kanye West out. They were obviously joking,
but it was very funny to me. It's like, yeah,
they're gonna bring out the Nazi lover and all this ship.
Those guys had me cracking up. And then uh, you know,
and everybody's got ponchos on and all I didn't have

(12:32):
my poncho on yet because it wasn't really raining that well.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
The pancho man was making the killing because.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
They yeah, they had people selling ponchos too, which I'm
sure costs more than our dicks ones list trip of
the price. Okay, because if you're gonna listen, because if
you're going to Dick's.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
You want to wear a raincoat. That's what I always say.
You don't want catch that that Dick went free.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Okay, So well we go. We walked to the stadium
or whatever, and we like had to walk around to
like the same we went to. So they have the
south entrance and then they have this other entrance that's
a little further away. But that's how we got into
the Beyonce concert. Was going to the fore of that
was a little further away.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Stops at that first one, and it's just ridiculously long lines.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
And it's becoming obvious as we're walking, Like to me anyway,
I'm like, oh, this bitch sold out. M h, Like
he sold this shit out. This is not gonna be
some empty state seats or whatever. It's gonna be full,
and I'm glad we left early. I'm glad we're gonna
get that earlier or whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
We too. And while we was walking, we seeing this
couple and they was dressed as mustard containers. They had
like the hood the little that they had hats like
a top of mustard in the front, like thing to
set mustard. It was hilarious.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. I actually took a picture of them. We were
walking into the stadium and it was bright ass yellow.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
And I posted it to my social media, like guess
where I'm going. But you guys can see them here
hold their hands, uh from the back, but yeah, they're
they're wearing the mustard outfits.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yes, it was fucking where they were keeping their ponchos.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't know, maybe the mustard got soaked, maybe it
was watered down mustard by the end. I don't know
what happened with them, but yeah, it was so like we.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Get in there or whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Uh, And it was I will say this, It wasn't
necessarily like Beyonce where everybody was dressed in like their
silver and their cowboys and all the women had on
like they like outfits.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
That was like, you're gonna get these titties, You're gonna
get this ass. Because I think Scissa.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
And Kendrick, while they're dope and lots of people were
coming out to see them, I think the Beyonce Renaissance
energy was completely different. It was you know, it was
it was, but it was so fun. It was you know,
all kinds of it was. It was like that was
a dope night. Just even walking to the the stadium.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yes, everybody was glowing and shit, cowboy house was blinking.
I was saying, I, bitch, I didn't know blink.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, and so uh, you know you see people with
tour merchant stuff, but it's just not the same.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
And a couple people dresses like mustard or something like that.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Anyway, so we get in at there, you know, go
through the line and shit, which was organized enough.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
You know, some people had to throw their umbrellas away.
I was like, hold, I got them umbrollas because I
was like, you can't have them be I already knew that,
and I told your mama, So I said, not buy
your Pancho baby, because you can't.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Not, I shout out to I guess the anxiety or
whatever but I can't even imagine freestyle in a concert
like the way people be what's doing, Like I can't
imagine not looking up like what I can bring in
with me right, like having to throw your fucking perse away,
Because that's the thing. When it's getting close to showtime

(15:48):
and you've waited already through the line, they don't tell
you to start throwing shit out till there's like maybe
another twenty ten to twenty minutes left if you waiting
in the line, and if you got to go to
the back, you go to the back back, and the
lines get longer as it gets close to the showtimes.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
She does, and so I can't.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I saw people throwing away umbrellas, which I mean, it's
a decision you gotta make. I saw a woman that
one woman was talking out loud. She was like, yeah,
I gotta yeah, girl, they want to throw away this umbrella.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
I get, I might. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'm like, you don't know what you're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
You're gonna throw that umbrella away.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
He's taking expensive that you can buy another umbro statue
somewhere and hope it's that.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
On the way out, I don't know what to tell you, dog, like, but.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Check the website. And I was telling your mama, I
was joking about it, but I was serious and said, yeah,
I said, cause folks get drunk up in the Marinas
and they probably using bitches as weapons. As Oh there's
like no umbrellas.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, sure, I don't. I mean I think a
lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, I think a lot of this stuff is just
nine to eleven fear and of course obviously the ever
present fear of guns in America because we don't regulate
them really, so we have to overregulate ship like this,
you know, at.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Any rate we get in in or whatever.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
And uh, it's kind of interesting because like, uh, when
you get in, they actually hangd you like physical tickets,
which is they did the same thing at the Tyler concert,
So I guess that's a new thing. It's like because
everybody's ticket is digital, then they hand you a paper
ticket that doesn't have a barcode or anything on it.
But it's funny because it feels like, well, weren't we

(17:22):
doing the phone thing to avoid the paper thing? But
I guess we're throwing away thout. We're killing toiles of
trees anyway, fuck it.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, it's like here you go go to the website
and buy shit.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, so we get in and uh, you know, make
it up to our area. We was in the three hundreds,
which is like, yes, which was you know, was that
the same area we did Beyonce. Yeah, so the three hundreds,
like it goes up to five hundred, like, so we
was in three hundred. We found an escalator, found an

(17:53):
escalator this time that was dope.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah last time, last time we walked around. Yeah, that
rent was a beast.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah that MP for some reason, feel like you're not
going up as high as that ramp need to take you.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
But whatever, we get. So we get up there.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
We'll eventually get ready to find our seats, and Mom
bought us some snacks and then we go sit outside.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
At our at our thing. And I was so happy
because I bought these tickets and I bought.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I bought an our seat for myself, because almost every
other time if someone else buys tickets for me or
whatever in a group, people just buy tickets and they
buyd wherever they can get them or whatever. It's hey,
three together, but I'll sacrifice to be like, hey, let
me find the one with the isle if that means
I'm a two rows ahead or two rows back. Fun

(18:43):
and so I dug the ol seat, even though it
was funny because the our seat was number number three
instead of number one, and I was like, I was
looking at the tickets, like did I funk up? Did
I remember buying our seats? And then we got there.
I was like, oh, apparently they started three. Who gets
a fuck?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
But yeah, so we get the.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Seats or whatever, and you know, we're sitting out there,
everybody's you know, hYP Now, this is what's funny because
the people that got their own time, like us, even
a little bit early seven o'clock hits. Now, anyone that
goes to concerts knows it's not starting at seven. Why

(19:18):
the fuck would it start at seven? Nothing ever starts
at the time it's supposed to start. For huge audiences. Now,
it's you know, it's I mean, if you go to
the black Out Tip event, we're starting on time.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I'm just gonna tell you right now.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
But for people that like coming in, like they go
to concerts a lot, they know you can come in,
you know, up the sometimes up the hour, but I'd
say thirty minutes late. Me just absolutely fine. Everybody behind
was like, they need to he ever start this shit.
It's seven oh one, Okay, now seven it's seven oh two.
What's going on, Kendrick. I'm like, damn, y'all not even

(19:50):
Senator arenas.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Outside in loun Now, I'm not gonna lie. We went
to the title of the Creative Concert, and I believe because.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
It was at the Spectrum.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Spectrum Center when when that bitch hit had a clock,
it was like boom. I was like, Oh, they're not bullshit,
and they was like, we're gonna have y'all lss out
of here by ten thirty. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, I think that one did start on time.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
But also it started at eight I think, and uh,
the laws.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
For working with the unions and shit is kind of wild.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
But yeah, but nah, that one did start on time.
And he also but also he had two opening acts.
As far as we knew on the billing on the ticket,
it was just Sizza and Kendrick.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
So that's the reason I thought what they were saying
was ridiculous because I'm like, y'all expecting Kendrick to come
out to a forty percent full arena start performing the
first part of his concert. And not get booed thirty
minutes later when it's full right, when everybody's like, what
the fuck I missed the beginning of the concert, then
upset anyway, they don't actually start anything till like seven

(20:52):
point thirty.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
About you know, it was about seven fifteen to about yeah,
seven forty five.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well I was gonna say, I thought, Okay, whatever the
exact Thomas, I'm wrong, I'll take that. But they don't
start at seven, is my point. And when they do start,
it's actually DJ Mustard that comes out. And he did
like a thirty minute set of just like music, and
it was funny.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Some of us here, some of us not.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
But he was playing a bunch of stuff that people knew,
bunch of stuff that I'm sure people didn't know. But
it was only about fifteen to thirty seconds of each song.
It just like every song like it was just the
hottest part of each song.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
And like, if you knew it, you would get your life.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
And then the second if you didn't know it, wait
thirty seconds, something else will beyond that, you do know.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I having the ball. I'm like, shit, don't make me
tied for the concept thoughts.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Sir, Yeah, it got crunking there. It was like, whoa bitch,
get out.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
The way, And it was like basically the people that
was there early kind of got rewarded by having like
a PROMPTU I mean cause he was probably to open it,
but kind of like almost like a promptu show before
the show.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, it was fun, like he was actually one of
my fa the I like, so the show honestly was
because I wasn't expecting anything. I just figured they'd do
something type of countdown or something something. I figured they
do something, but I didn't see an opener on the ticket.
Having him come out there was actually really dope. And
then he was just spending music. He was talking into
the mic a little bit, and then you know, it's
like like it had certain segments and sections, like there

(22:20):
was one for the haters and he played like Big
Sean's I Don't Fuck with You and stuff like that,
and it's like, if you got a hater, da da
da dah, you know how DJ's did for all the ladys.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I need y'all to do this.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
But yeah, so he played a bunch of dope ass
like music from old and New.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'd say I knew like ninety of the songs.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, like ninety percent of it, and uh man,
it was so that shit was super dope. Then they
like have a maybe two to three minute like he
leaves the stage, I mean literally two to three minutes,
like not twenty ten minutes. Literally he leaves stage, like
lights go down a little bit, and then bam that

(23:05):
the opening part of whacked Out murals with the.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Spanish speaking woman, that shit starts.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah. So if you were still outside, you kind of
you was like they was like. And also, I think
the biggest reason why I don't think it started at seven.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I know it didn't. Okay, yo, go ahead, Well, but maybe.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
This is my theory because when we first got there,
they was actually scraping the rain off of the stage.
I was like, I bet you if they hadn't had
to like scrape the rain and ship kind of all
might have started a little earlier. I think they would have.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Kendrick alluded to it a few times during the show, like,
you know how you ain't gonna let rain stop us
and all this other shit. Meanwhile, the whole time, I'm thinking, like,
if it's strike lightning eight miles within the stadium, it
ain't gonna matter what the fuck.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
You're talking about.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
But but yeah, but my mom said on the way,
she was like, I think the rain's gonna make people
more hype.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
And it did.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's like the fact that people brave that rain together
to be out there and at the concert together.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
People was on ten immediately. So yeah, man, like Whites
go down or whatever.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Some cursive writing comes on the screen Senter, you know
the song that's Senter.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
On quick too percents? Yeah, little don't chan now, I
don't change.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Everybody's like, you know, then the fucking the the gn
neck the Grand National rises from underneath the stage. Kendrick's
in it, but you can't really see him yet, but
like you can see him on the camera when they
zoom in, but from where we're sitting, like it's like
the cars on stage.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's in there. But the thing is dog, no.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Backing track, no no fucking vocals other than you know,
like the the what's on the instrumental?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
He rapping it, you know, and you could tell it's
him saying it live like it's and I know it
seemed like a little thing. But dog, when you watch
so many of these rappers and go to concerts, it's
not a little thing. A lot of times they basically
just playing a track and is mouthing a couple of
words over it. And I know I said that when
he did the super Bowl performance. And I've always talked

(25:10):
about how he's such a consummate performer. He's in such
amazing shape to be able to do what he does.
I just I don't think you can take it for granted.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's just you shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
But man, seeing him do it live and hearing like
his voice that he's doing, it's just it was just like, Okay,
it's about to be one of those nights.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
You know, had the big screens and everything, and that
had fireworks. You can feel that damn heat.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, even outside, yes, but yeah, you know that yesterday
somebody whacked out my murals and then just bammed that.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
So he does that song.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
And then he starts getting out of the car, and
you know, Charlotte was you know, and he said, Carolina,
what's up. I found out later this is a big
thing in Charlotte, apparently, like the newspaper cover people was
talking about on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
People thought he said, Atlanta, what's up? He said, Carolina.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Don't remember?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
I do remember he said, Carolina he said it several times.
He said it when they left to he said Carolina.
But apparently people thought he said Atlanta. They thought he
was and so the Charlotte Observer had written a whole
thing where I read it this morning, where they were
doing a recapital concert, and the author said he had
to change They had to change it because they were

(26:32):
going to say, like, scold him for saying Atlanta, like
you don't know you're in.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Charlotte, Da da da da, And I'm like, I was there.
He didn't say Atlanta. I would have noticed if he
said Atlanta, because I'm sorry, the mic was live. It
was crystal clear. The whole fucking arena would have said.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Like what if responded to that?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yes, yeah, And so I'm like, I know he said Carolina.
He didn't say Charlotte. He said Carolina multiple times. Even
I see y'all next time, Carolina.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
I remember at the end. Anyway, these motherfuckers are so insecure.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I guess they was because we do have an insecurity
complex about Atlanta, Okay, and Charlotte. Everybody think you know
why everybody got to compared us to Atlanta. Atlanta's bigger, better,
Like it's not a problem. The music scenees crazy, Like
I don't where the insecurity comes from. I don't give
fuck anyway, the motherfucker said Carolina gets out. He did

(27:23):
whacked out murals, and he's like giving you you know,
I'm on the top of the car.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
I'm doing I'm getting you know.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's and like it's such a showman because like he's
rapping a verse and then like stars leaning up in
the sea, rapping, skill rapping, looks stars looking out.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
The window towards the camera and stuff for the stage, Still.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Rapping, opens up the door, still rapping, gets out, still
ever gets on the hood still like and then we
got squabbled up, you know, and everybody's going crazy. Like
that's this one thing about this album. So many people
have become Kendrick fans because of this album, but also

(28:01):
those of us that have been fans for a long time.
This is most simplest album and most catchy album. Yes so,
like there's a lot of anthems on this fucking album.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, compared to.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yes, Yes So, like Squabble Up, it's like everybody knows
the choruses are all simple, everybody knows the words, the
concepts are mostly simple.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
So like he did Squabble Up, and everybody's going.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Crazy because Squabble Up is like two thirty eight, you know,
it's a short song. The thing is with whacked out mules.
He still did like the whole fucking song. He did
the whole song, like he wasn't doing a lot of
just one verse unless it was something old.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
So then he does Squabble Up. Then he did King Kunta,
and he's going, you know, giving you the whole run.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Of the stage.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
And the stage has this thing where like yeah, loops
around as a pit in the middle where people are dancing,
like the super VIPs is staying the whole time, and
on the wings there's like to other little side stages
and shit. So like he's using the entire stage the
whole time once again, running around doing it, rapping on

(29:09):
every single word, no no dubbing, no backing, not even
like extra people on stage that are saying the words
for them, which a lot of rappers do. It's just
like him and then the dancers and stuff. Then he
did Element, which is one of my personal favorites, like
a verse off of that. Then he did something that

(29:30):
was cool. He did the first half.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Of TV off. Yes, so I don't know if you
noticed this too, but he did. The first half.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
He stops before you get the mustard and all that
shit because TV OFF changes halfway through for those of
y'all that that are big fans. So and I mean
it's hidden obviously, it's TV off. I mean it's not
you know, it's the but like if you you kind
of end up feeling like you're waiting on that, like
my stuff and then my mom, I'm thinking, oh, it's

(29:59):
it's too early for TV off.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's you like five songs in, right, we got a
whole ass concert, sir, Like what the fuck you gonna
do after this or whatever?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like that's like that's kind of a I feel like
you're doing a lot right now and you gotta slow
it down.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
We hype as fuck right now. But I mean, unless
this concert is ending in like.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Twenty minutes after this, there's no fucking way that you're
doing TV OFF right now. So yeah, So he stops
tv off like halfway through, and that's when Sizza basically
comes out, like the music starts playing. They do thirty
for thirty, which made me realize that I think this

(30:40):
SOS Deluxe album she put out which does have a
bunch of new tracks, but you know some old stuff
on that too. I'm like, I should have known they
was going on tour together when the Deluxe dropped, because
it feels like a reason to do a tour, like
because she already got, of any artists, the most collaborations

(31:01):
with Kendrick Lamar, So if anyone can do it toward
with Kendrick, it's her because she can come on stage
and do the transitions with like, hey, this is our
song together. Now it's my turn to do my songs right.
And she has like I forget how many collapsed, but
enough to do it. Yeah, So they do thirty for
thirty and then she goes into albums off of Control

(31:22):
songs off of Control, which I know, I know control.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Backwards and forward.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I don't know sos like that. I know control backwards
and fucking forwards. So we got Love Galore, Broken Clocks
and Weekend, and I was like.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I recognize more of Scissor's songs than I realized. I
was like, oh, I know all these songs.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
I have to say to Sissa, I wasn't familiar with
your game, like game recognized game and all that, but
forgive me, I was not familiar with your game.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
I knew, I didn't know she sings sing like that,
and there's no offense to her. Is my fault is
not her fault. I was not checking her live performances.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I would just be like, Oh, I like this album,
and I listened to the album, and in my mind,
you know whether it's a studio singer or a singer singer.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Once I got the album, it don't matter to me.
I'm not seeing them live more than likely.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Right.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
But she also and I'm gonna imagine, you know, Kendrick
wouldn't even tour with somebody that couldn't didn't have the
ability to do this tour like this. She was on
Mike singing that shit. It was not her singing to
the backing track. It wasn't letting the track do the
work for her. There's obviously it's different with R and B,
so like there is more vocals on her tracks. Don't

(32:40):
get me wrong, but it wasn't her just lip syncing
to a bunch of hits. And you could hear it,
you know, you could hear her like hitting certain notes,
doing certain runs and all that stuff. I thought she
did a good job on you too. And then the
second part, I wasn't familiar with her game. That woman
is fine, o beautiful, thick though saved live. She was
saving live up in there.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
She is absolutely good because I knew she was pretty,
but it was nothing like seeing her. I was like,
oh she is.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean I knew, I knew she was fine.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
You know, I've been watching you know, I watched one
of them days and all that stuff, but it just
it hit different in person. And uh, the thighs was dying.
They was out there when she was straddling that, and
I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
You're gonna get this.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
And the thing is I sat down.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
For most I feel like the arena was sitting down
a lot of times because like R and B energy
is different than rap energy. Yes it is so like
when she had upbeat songs, people would stand up, but
like a lot of times when she's singing like the Weekend,
like you can sit down and take that in.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
But yeah, man, she was so good.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I really like and like I said, the stuff that
I knew knew, it was like, oh my god, yes, yes, yes,
Now once she got into some other stuff, it was
more like I sat down to appreciate it because I
ain't know out the words and the same here ya also,
singing along different than rapping along because I feel like
singing along and you can't sing.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
It's like you're ruining the concert for people around you.
Rapping along. Just say the words.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
It's fine, you know, we all got different voices. Then
Kendrick comes back with Euphoria and y'all this my one.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay. I know y'all is not like us people. I
get it. TV off. That's for you.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
To me.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Euphoria is my favorite song of the Beef. All the
songs are great. All that stuff Kendrick did is great.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'm not like I get it.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Everybody won't be different. Oh you're six one six nigga.
Oh it was when he said meet the Grahams. I
understand that's the coldest track I hear you. Euphoria is
the one for me. Okay, It's like he made that
song with me in mind.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I rapped every word. He did the whole six minutes
and twenty four second.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yes, he did the entirety of that song.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Oh my god, I'm so thankful for that, cause that's
it was hit.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
That's not as big as Arena oh, like as soon
as he came out, you know, back on the stage,
because they kept coming from underneath the stage, and it's
like them superpowers being neutralized.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I can only I was like, oh, there we go
back up. You know, don't I know them people without
I was.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I'm sure I was on somebody fucking nerves because I
like the people in front of us. There was a
lot of what I would call casual fans, and I
don't mean that negative way, but just I get it.
You're not a Day one Kendrick fan, Day two Kendrick fan.
You this is the event once you once you fill
up an arena, it's an event. Like that means people
are like, I am going to go to this thing

(35:40):
not knowing necessarily agree, you know, Like it's like going
to a MCU film. You didn't have to read comic
books at this point to go to MCU films.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
So motherfuckers are.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Just showing up to be like Kendrick Lamar, big name,
big year concert in my city.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
I gotta go. Yes. So there were people around us
that I could tell did not They had not spent hours.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Upon hours upon hours upon hours upon hours upon hours
wrapping along to your for you not just listening to
it saying all the words.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
They weren't in their car saying what is the braids
from nine hundred They wasn't they wasn't doing that might
have been a me thing. You see what I'm saying,
This my song.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
That's yo jase.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I don't know that everybody else is able to do this, okay,
I don't know that everybody else is constantly thinking when
I look at you, I.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Know you see too badages when you look at you and.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yourself a sexy red like like everybody not thinking that
all the time, everybody not being like you know, and
teaching the prey, you know, everybody not to stop.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
So I finally got this thing. I honestly would have
paid the full price for the.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Tickets just he could have just did this one song
one time and I would have been like, thank you, Kenji,
we can go home now. But this is once again
early in the concert he does euphoria, and I mean
all around the stage everything. I think also, what this
was really good for was there certain songs he's done

(37:16):
in the past that if you didn't know at the
time they were about Drake, now you do know. So
like there's lyrics you can never unhear when you hear
like King Kunta. Now it's like, yeah, I think this
ship was about Drake cause, like, I think the line
he ended it on was like what a rapper with
a coach fighter? What the fuck happened? It's like, oh, wait,

(37:39):
that's that's about Drake. That's about Drake. Wait a minute,
hold up, you know, And that's how I was revised.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
During the beef.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I was revisiting all these old tracks and I and
there were so many tracks, so I was like, that
was about Drake.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
That was about Drake. I thought it could have been
about Drake.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
But I thought I was tripping.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I didn't know they was beefing, so I thought I
was tripping back in the day when I'm like, rather
with a ghost fighter?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Nah, they why would you take a shot at Drake?
Didn't they do that song together?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
I'm probably tripping. I'm probably tripping. But yeah, you know,
beach out. My grandma's dead, so ain't nobody praying for me?
I'm on your head?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
And I'm like, mmm, interesting, all right? So he does
Euphoria amazing. Then he does Humble, which is always a bop,
always about and I do have to know, guys, because
Twitter would have you not believe this, but apparently, show
me something natural like Afro and Richard Pryce. Show me
something natural like ass with some stretch. Mark still will

(38:34):
take you down while you're on your mama's couch. Apollo
socks eight that not just hits every motherfucking body and
Arena loves that line.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yes, I was told this was the.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Most controversial, horrible, misogonistic thing to ever say. But apparently
that's just a certain segment of Twitter that was trying
to fuck with Kendrick.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
At the time. Because that shit hit, everybody was like,
this is my part? I thought it was just me.
I was looking around everybody was that stay part?

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Then we get hey now mm hmm, which you know, dope,
And then the he didn't take the features off, so
like what other people was rapping. It's like he would
either like dance or he would like, you know, let
that part go in and pop in for his part,
which was dope because you know, I kept thinking, how's

(39:27):
he gonna perform He had some features on uh on
gn X that I'm like, how, I wonder how he's
gonna perform these? And sometimes he would even have like
either on the screen behind him the person that did
the feature and stuff. That's what Tyler did with DOCI
on his album on his concert, then reincarnated.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Backseat freestyle.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Mm hmmm yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Do you know how many times I wrapped backseat freestyle
in my car or just somewhere.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
All my life?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
I want money and power, respect my mind, or die
from least shower. I pray my did get big as
the athle Taler so I can fuck the world for
seven and two whiles.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
God, damn, I feel amazing. Damn I'm in that, Majors.
My mind is on clow Listen, Hey he racing.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I was getting my life.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Oh my god. It is like I said. I know,
I was annoying, y'all. I know all the worst, all
this shit I was.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
I don't give a damn.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
I was like, fuck it, we all outside, we all, Kendrick, Okay,
don't get thrown over this balcony. We're not stopping nothing tonight.
Then he did his verse on family Ties, which is
another banger, you know. To me, that's really the one.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
That I was like.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Kendrick sounded like he ready for a beef smoking on
top fives. Motherfuck that album. Fucked that single. Burn that hard.
I burned that bitch like I was like, hey, he
is going extra hard on his verse, like you want
somebody say something.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Then he did a second of swimming Pools and it
was acapella because he was like, you know, some of
y'all go back with me.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Do y'all remember this? And it was like swimming Pools,
but he just did.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
The lines like and I grew up every day life
in bottles and and everybody was like, you know, rapping
along with him.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
I was in that dark room, you know that thing.
Then he did Mad City his verse from that, you know,
take us, break yourself.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I'll take you down a trip memory lane. This is
not a rapper that ship. Then he did all right, dog,
he's doing all right. We're not halfway through this ship.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
It's alright. It's a Negro spiritual. It's insane in there,
how crazy? Like how a crowd?

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah yes, when you know like all this stuff you
got he got dancers and ship, but it's like he's
it's all just pure.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
His power or whatever. And then he did Man at
the Garden.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
And I think Sissy came back out at the Man
at the garden, you know, after I deserve it all
or whatever, he comes down, she comes.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Up, and then she did Scorsese baby daddy, uh F
to f garden.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
That's say it like that, which I know from control,
uh kitchen, blind, forgiveness and low. And then she did
Doves in the Wind from Control, which Kendrick is on.
Yes he comes back, so you know that that's that
rap about pussy push.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
You can be some facetious. They haven'tweight champ, but just
so undefitted. Can we amen to that?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
So like he does that verse from from from Doves
and the Wind. Then they did all the Stars and
everybody without them saying everybody just knew, including myself, you
put your phone, pull your phone out, put that flashlight on,
and like every everybody phone was out for all the Stars,
and you like as soon as the beat started dropping
people's I know, I was phoning from my phone like

(43:11):
oh I got to be part of this and so
I won't be left down.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
We were putting our phones up.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
You know, I think I haven't recorded a little bit,
but we were putting our phones up, and they did,
of course all the Stars, which what a beautiful song.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Then he did love.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Then, which is that you know, love of us, give
me money, you know, been in love me that joint.
So it's kind of like with the vibes and scissor
like this was a more vibe. Part of the concept
was very you know, Chill laid Back, did Dodger Blue,
he did Peak a Boo, he did his verse from

(43:53):
like that. Yes, he did DNA. He did his verse
from good Credit. But I don't like Party. I don't
like Playboy Cardy.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
I just don't. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
I tried.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
I listened to the whole album, even for Kendrick. I can't.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
I can't that album is that I don't think I'm
a Playboy Cardi fan. No offense to that dude, man,
Like I'm not wishing no ill will on them. But
and I gave it a legitimate shot.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
I just couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Dog.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
So this is the verse that I don't know as well,
not just because it's new, but because I honest to god,
I had you have to listen to like two minutes
of Cardi to get to Kendrick, and I'd be like
a minute in like I'm gonna change of something else every.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Time I'm in the gym.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Then he didn't count Me Out, which is one of
my favorite songs. Honestly, this really made me reticent that
I didn't go to the Mister Morale Big Steppers toward
because I really.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Did years ago.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Honestly, I know that people don't agree, but this ain't
about y'all. This is while we have a podcast and
you don't. Mister Round and the Big Steppers, to me
is the one that's the album where I'm like, where,
I know it's not Iron's favorite, I'm not saying that
you have to call it his best or the most viby.
That's the one that felt the most like this is
a genius doing genius work that people don't understand, and

(45:11):
part of genius is getting people to understanding. I'm sure,
but it's the one that went over people's heads. But
to me, I'm like this, this dude was ahead of
where we need to be.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
So anyway, he.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Did count me out, I'm excited, Money Trees, Poetic Justice,
and I can't remember if this is where he didn't listen.
He did an interpolation with Anita Baker sweet Love, and

(45:44):
I don't remember where he did it at, but I
feel like it was somewhere around here.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
It was I don't remember the order, but yes, it
was so he like blended like two or three songs.
It was so beautiful the baker. So it's like if
you knew the words, you could go along. But it
was really slowed down.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Yes, it was like the way he did that, I
like that's rap because like he was giving credit. Uh,
he was giving credit obviously to to the original.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
But I know what it was.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
It was Mad City and and it was Mad City
and Sweet Love at the same time.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yes, because it was like a blending. I was like,
this is a blending of.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Songs because like when you think about you know that
song is you know, it's very upbeat, you know, breaks yourself.
I'll take you down a trip memory lane. This is
not a rap on hond slinging crack on mo Okaine.
This is you know, so you thinking like that, you know,
I hear y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all. But once you throw
in that sweet Love, it's gotta be on the internet. Okay,
if someone put it on Instagram, I got I gotta

(46:51):
let y'all hear this. I'm sorry, but like obviously you
see the full thing it's just it's hitting different.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
It was so good.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
It was so good, man. It just made me feel
like that's hip hop.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
That's hip hop, and it loved him giving credit to Anita,
you know, and Anita's been really like cool about it,
like because I know some of the old school R
and B people get real precious about wrapping people using
a stuff and so like to see a reciprocal relationship
where I'm sure there was people that got put on
Anita Baker from this that were like sweet because in
the background, I just said sweet love Anita Baker. It

(47:39):
don't say you know, Mad City, Kendrick Lamar anything, So
that that interpolation was amazing and they just lived in
it for a while, and.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Like I said, you know, all the back to the
all the other songs, and Sissy comes back.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
And uh gives us what was it and she this
was when she did a little bit longer set and
once again it was more laid back and chill.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
So it's uh, let's see Diamond Boy shirt, Sin City,
Kill Bill, Uh Snooze, And I'm once again I didn't
know all these songs because, like I said, I did
miss out on songs cry Baby and someone were newer,
and I really missed the wave on the new I
didn't even understand it was a new album album.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I didn't realize toil.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Like a month or two out from the concert, I
was like, wait, the sos the US got thirty eight songs,
this an album?

Speaker 1 (48:32):
This a new album? Like it was?

Speaker 3 (48:33):
It was.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
I thought it was just like remixes and a couple
of extra No, nigga, this is a bunch of shit.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
You ain't her.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
So I had not memorized any of this Saturn good days.
And then there's like a big dance set where they
were playing different songs and she was her and her
dance was getting the working of that.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Ship she was getting, and she had a bunch of
outfit changes.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, she was like going down that elevator coming back
up in completely different outfum.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I told your mama, I said, I think she had
the NBA pants to pop off pants, cause yeah, because
they would literally she would go down and like a minute,
lady should be back. I'm like, how the fuck y'all cold?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
She was wearing like jogging pants and stuff too, which
is another thing I like about her style. And then
she and she could have had that stuff on under
there or whatever, but then comes off stage and comes
back and it's like booty shorts and you're like, okay,
let's go okay. And she was porking like she was perking,
like it wasn't uh like it wasn't an illusion.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Okay, she was singing them things, Yes she was.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
And I did notice that Kendrick had a lot more
male dancers than the than women dancers and vice versa
for her, but I also thought it was partially because
of how they had them dancing.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
They and they switched them up sometimes like you'd see
like there was a song.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Where the women dancers kind of went around at the
at the Kendrick and stuff, and I'm sure they were
probably scissors dancers, but anyway, so then they do our
that she does BMF kiss Me More, which is a
Doja cat song with her on it better, and then
TV off and that's where he finishes tv off Finish.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
That's when he come back with that mustard, Like.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
I was like, this niggas so good?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
How did he know that making two halves like that?
Because remember early, I was like, oh is he blowing
his load?

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Early?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
When you can't do TV off here he didn't.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
He did just half of it, but the part everybody
go crazy about that's the one he did the second half,
and that that's when I was like, oh, we must
be entering into the end of the concert, because when
you bust out that Mustard nigga, it's a rap for
whatever else was happening, you know.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
So, yeah, it was you know, he came, you know
he so he did.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
He did the whole Mustard TV off part, and then
after he does heavy off, we.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Get uh not like us.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah, And that was literally the highlight of the concert,
Like the whole stadium was. I mean, the whole state
had been hyped the whole time for Kendrick, but I
think for a lot of people, that was literally the
song they was waiting to hear.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Let me tell y'all something that motherfucking.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Not like us, Marina was rocking.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I ain't never seen no shit like that. I mean,
I'm not exaggerating. It had to be ninety nine percent
of people that knew every fucking word. It was crazy.
I don't care what they looked like.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
I mean, I'm looking at inter racial couples to see
if they get to say the N word or not,
Like I was locked in.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
I didn't care.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I'm not gonna like I'm locked in like us. Some
of these might be jokes. Some of these might be jokes.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
I was locked in that tight, guys. Okay, I'm like
observing the they went fucking crazy for not like us.
I mean, it's way past to pop out and the
song is we've heard of a million times, so I'm
glad they didn't try to do like eight times in
a row, like to pop out or something.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
But when I tell you every fucking word, and like.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
The dance was, they was giving us the dance. Same
thing at the super Bowl with the peekaboo thing, they
did that thing. He's playing to the carrions, playing to
the crowd, and he's such a consummate professional. He just
gives us not like us, Like it's not a bunch
of like teasing and like you know, like a like
a wrestler or whatever.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Now, this is the part that was weird, not like
us happened. I know there's more to go because I
you know, like to me, I'm like, he ain't did
Luther him and Luthor together?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
So you got to have her back on stage for that,
And like I'm sure Saysan needed arrest because the last.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Time she performed, she was like flying around the fucking
crowd and butterfly.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I was.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
She must love nature because it's everything with bugs, bugs glass.
Listen the way she stranding up from that.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
I wish I had big ass ant.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
I wish I had six or eight legs. How many
legs they got was oh my lord. She was on
that and okay, she was, Okay, I see you. But
that so she comes back out and they do Luthor.
But what I'm saying is I don't think I'm exaggerating,
but maybe it's bigger in my.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Head than it was.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
It wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I want to say fifteen to twenty percent of people
started leaving after not like us.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
I think for a lot of people, they was like,
that's the song I wanted to hear. And literally after that,
all of a sudden, you see like a mad rush
of people just leaving.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
I felt, okay, there was a couple of ways I
felt about this. I'll start with the funny one, and
then I'll start with the crazy. Then I go with
the crazy one.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
The first, the funny one is this I felt like
when I be at a Marvel movie and niggas started
leaving during the credits, Yes, and you'd.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Be like, motherfucking you ain't ever been out the house.
It's ovulously about to be a couple more scenes.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
This is where twenty movies in everyone's places. Sit back down?

Speaker 1 (54:15):
What are we doing? This is not the end of
the fucking concert. They didn't even say goodbye.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Right then. They ain't say goodbye.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
They always think the city. Motherfucker, Get your ass back
to your seat. That's what I was thinking. That was
my first thought. Then my second thought was the craziest thought.
Not I didn't mean to take it there, but I
was like, white people do not respect our art. This
what Sinners was talking about. Sit your wearings down, you not,

(54:44):
this is what happened when you're not from the culture.
They wouldn't leave like this without speaking.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Do you think it's over? Or do you just not
care about his actual work?

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Right?

Speaker 1 (54:54):
When he tells does.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Luther and Gloria Gloria being the story of his pen
from the From his perspective, it's a lover you just leaving.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Because you don't love us, You not like us.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Get the fuck out. That's how that was the crazy part. Okay,
I didn't say any of this out loud at the time.
But yeah, I'd say fifteen to twenty percent of people
started leaving.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
That was insane to me.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Then they do Gloria, which I mean, well, then they
did Luthor, which is another banger. Now they do have
like about a minute to two minutes between the Luth
like between not like us ending and Luther starting, there's
about a minute or two where it's kind of quiet.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yes, and I think people gonna a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Some people like they thought it was over.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Yeah, I think a small percentage of that people's like,
maybe what's happening?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So then Luther happens, and I saw a couple of
people turn around, come back, or stand in the doorway.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Right.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
It's also that thing where once you start the leaving process,
most people do not turn around.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
So it's like, well I'm already leaving.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
I'm like, so you're gonna miss extra concert, dummy. Anyway,
they do Luther, then they do Gloria. Then they and
at the end of Gloria, he like walks into the car.
She gets in on the passeg see he thanks, you know, Carolina,
Da da da da, And then you know, uh, like
I said, he had referenced how the rain didn't stop
us and all that stuff. Then he gets in the
car and then it goes back down. That's the end

(56:19):
of the show. And then we walked to the train
and guys, man, that train, that line was it was
so long to get back.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
There was never gonna be another train again.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
People and people switched up in there like sardines, and
we was like, you know what, nah, we can wait.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
And what's funny is that because there's always a black
woman like this. There was a black woman that was like.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
And like, you know her my mom and Karen started
sinking up or whatever, as as black women tend to
do sometimes.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
And she was like and Karen's like, I know, I'm
not going to all the people. My mom was like
me neither. And then the one was like because COVID
is still a thing, and I was like, oh, this
is getting this is getting spiritual off in here. It's
about to be some a men's and hallelujah.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Yeah. And it got so bad the people, the announcer,
the conductor would make an announcement but like, hey, y'all,
it's another train back up. So I could shut the doors.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
They couldn't even shut the door there like another trainer's
come and calm down, like literally standing room only.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
And so we decided to like walk to maybe try
to get something to eat.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
We tried, guys, the monsoon.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
This is a ship show in every way.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
First of all, the Apple mass was listing restaurants, but
some of the restaurants was like hotel restaurants, meaning if
you couldn't get in the hotel, you couldn't eat the
fucking restaurant, because these are downtown hotels and you need
a card to even get in the fucking front door. Also,
as Charlotte, everything's I opened that late, so like a
lot of stuff was either closed. It would give us
locations to ship where I'm like, is this just the

(57:54):
cafeteria for Apple, like the corporation?

Speaker 1 (57:58):
How you get here?

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Now it's like make a right.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
I'm like, that's not a place you can make a
right into because I'm looking at a parking lot.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
There's not a restaurant in this parking lot. This sparkle
needs to go somewhere else. It was off and we're
just walking different directions and we're trying, you know, we're
all upbeating, like you know, I have to be with people.
I'd rather be with my mom and Karen because it's
you know, nobody was losing their cool.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Oh, it was cracking jokes the whole time.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Yes, and then guys, the fucking Noah flood started that
the one that we had hoped wouldn't happen during the event.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Said, all right, I got you. You said not during
the event. Well was after the event, bitch.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
I felt like I was swimming.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
My shoes were so wet. Guysh my socks was leaking.
It was so bad, like we we got underneath a
bridge or whatever, and I just gave up. I was like, listen,
I'll call it over. I don't give a fuck. I
know it's a ninety million dollar I don't cos I
don't care. They can come get us and drive us
to the house or drive us to the car. I
just I have to get out of the rain. Singing

(59:00):
of this shit is my almost midnight. I'm hungry, there's
no food.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Trying to get the food, and the Apple Masks was
like not you and not today.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Yeah, and so we the uber I tried to do
that uber didn't come. It was like yeah for this, uh,
it was like cars eight minutes away. I was like, okay, cool.
Then it was like we'll let you know soon as
one did it ten minutes later. Yeah, nobody. Then one
time it locked. It was like, hey, here's a car.
It's thirty minutes away. I said, thirty minutes. What it's like, Oh,

(59:33):
he just canceled. We're looking for a car. I said,
fuck it, fuck it, fuck it. Let's just walk back
to the train station. So we walked back to the
train station.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
We did. It was crystal clear. Yeah, everybody was gone.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
I was like, good, we could have just stayed there
another twenty thirty minutes we've been home. But we get
there and the trains were not empty, but they weren't
as crowded. We got seats on the next train, and
we took the train back, got to the car, and
Mom drove us home.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
And the thing is the wild think about the rain Yon.
The rain were being spurts because like when we got
on the business pouring down and it broke long enough
for us to get to the thing and get back
to the park. And once we got off the train
it started it was like it was going like intended
it was.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
It was intermittent, but but when it was mint nigga.
It was Mint.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
It was Mint and hard like you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
It was Mint's romney. Okay you Lily.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Couldn't see in front of you almost like god, damn
we swim. Like I said, when when things like that happened,
I can't be with everybody like I really am thankful
it was me or your mom because.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It would have ruined a lot of people's night, and
for us it was like fuck it, we're getting rained
on whatever. Yes, we had such a good time, and
then we got to the car, got home. All everybody say,
so that's it. That was the concert. That was our
concert story for the most part. Yes, like I said,
I have to wrap it up because I got something
to do in three minutes here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
But we had a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
We had a great time. Any anything that I missed, Karen,
that you knew wanted to add before we leave? Okay,
cool man, that was it. If you guys wanted to know,
that's our reaction. Go see it. If it's in your town,
go see it if you can.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
It's probably too late if you ain't got tickets, but
buy the tickets, find a way, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Go see that. And you can't know that it's probably
gonna start close to own time, so come back to
the early so that you can be there to to
at least see DJ Mustard.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
DJ must is worth it. The whole thing is worth it.
Very professional, very well done. New respect for Sissa, same
respect for Kendrick, and I really think you guys should
go see it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
All right, y'all, that's it. We gotta go till next time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
I love you, I love you too, Fly