![]() ![]() It was quite a sight to behold as video screens flashed a loop of former president and favorite Texas son George W. As soon as the 29-year-old rapper came out firing with “Can’t Hide Love,” the largely teen and twenty-something crowd scat-rapped along with Lamar as he unleashed powerful songs about race, freedom, and fame, while backed by the amazing Wesley Theory fourpiece band. To my surprise it was nothing like I had envisioned. I was not sure what to expect, not from the i ncendiary Compton rapper who is not afraid to speak his mind, but from the Central Texas, majority white crowd. ![]() While, the massive student body migrated to HomeAway stage for The Chainsmokers, the rest of the crowd posted up at the Samsung stage (clearly the best of the two days) to stake out their spot for Kendrick Lamar. The spry, buff, LL clearly has taken care of himself as he’s pushing 50 and his pop-rap anthems “Doin It,” “Loungin (Who Do Ya Luv),” and “Around the Way Girl” still hold up, but his over-exaggerated winking and endless lip-licking came off as more creepy uncle than virile playboy when he handed out long-stem roses during “I Need Love.”ĪlunaGeorge and Melanie Martinez take a vastly different approach to making pop-inflected, girl power anthems, but both provide must-watch shows that appeal to the 16-year-old in all of us. The ageless Queens MC is known more as a B-rate TV actor and host now, but that all his CBS sins were forgiven when he busted out a few bars of his 1990 hit “Mama Said Knock You Out.” The mad mash-up professor schooled the crowd with classics from Biz Markie to the Beastie Boys before calling up the legendary LL Cool J as the keynote rapper. Meanwhile, the old Longhorn alumni were gathered at the Samsung stage for a hip hop history lesson being taught by Z-Trip. The UT (University of Texas) flocked to DJ Mustard’s club heavy anthems like $4 Boilermakers as the LA-producer rattled off hits like Rihanna’s smash “Needed Me,” Drake’s “Pop Style” and Travis Scott’s “Antidote.” The doe-eyed and precocious Dacus, held her guitar to her side like a security blanket before leading her four man band into her hit single “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore,” a hook-laced statement song about “identity” that many of her passing peers too busy posing for Instagram pics should take as a “mantra.” The Virginia singer/songwriter has been branded with that “old soul” tag, playing a brand of grungy alt-rock tinged with pinch of alt-country twang. “But until we determine that, I will ask the tough questions.Ironically, 21-year-old Lucy Dacus is from that party-hearty age group, but is clearly on the outside looking in. “It may well be that this tragedy is the result of unpredictable events, of circumstances coming together that couldn’t possibly have been avoided,” said Judge Lina Hidalgo, Harris County’s top elected official. He called the disaster “a tragedy on many different levels” and said it was too early to draw conclusions about what went wrong. The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27, and 13 people were still hospitalized Saturday, Mayor Sylvester Turner said. ![]() Goods said she was so desperate to get out that she bit a man on the shoulder to get him to move. You’re trying to breathe, but you can’t.” “All of a sudden, your ribs are being crushed. “As soon as he jumped out on the stage, it was like an energy took over and everything went haywire,” concertgoer Niaara Goods said. As a timer clicked down to the start of the performance, the crowd pushed forward. The pandemonium unfolded Friday evening at Astroworld, a sold-out, two-day event in NRG Park with an estimated 50,000 people in attendance. HOUSTON (AP) - The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms and killing eight people in the chaos. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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