Travis Scott. Wish You Were Here Tour in Hartford, CT. All photos taken by Miguel Crespo for RESPECT.

“Thank you for your admission to Astroworld.” Houston rapper, Travis Scott had an outstanding year in 2018. He dropped one of the biggest albums of the year, Astroworld, and curated the sound track to NBA’s 2K19. The success of Astroworld also brought him across the country to host his first arena-sized tour with support by Sheck Wes, Trippie Redd and Gunna. As the tour was coming to a close, Scott announced a second leg of the tour where he would visit more cities around the USA. Since launching the trek on Nov. 8, 2018 in Baltimore, MD, Travis has grossed $34.3 million and sold 485,659 tickets across the tour’s first 32 dates.

Technical difficulties prevented the “Goosebumps” rapper from playing a few venues during the first leg of the tour. Scott assured fans the shows were not cancelled but will be rescheduled to a later date. Those venues were then added to the second leg of the tour. Included in those cities was Hartford, Connecticut where we would see how astronomical Astroworld really is.

La Flame is easily one of the greatest performers of our generation. Every show from past to present flows with overwhelming energy that never gets old. The stage presence he brings simply can not be matched by any other artist.

2 stages stare each other down from each side of the arena. Between them is a mob of screaming fans and surrounding the room are fans who chose to rage from their seats. Fireworks, smoke and flames shoot from each stage throughout the night. Visually, the main attraction is the over-head rollercoaster that travels between the 2 stages. Some lucky fans get to ride along side Travis while he performs. The show closes out with 5x platinum selling single “Sicko Mode” and an eruption of fire works. There are no noticeable changes, if any, between the first and second tour runs. Maybe a slight tweak on the song list he performs at most. 

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G-Eazy. Photos by Miguel Crespo for RESPECT.

G-Eazy has been on a nonstop ride since the release of his latest album, The Beautiful & Damned. The album’s success found Eazy traveling from city to city for an epic, arena-sized tour. Once the tour ended, it was time to do it all over again. G-Eazy presents to us the Endless Summer Tour.

Another arena-packed show is on the way to a city near you. The Oakland rapper rounded up some of the hottest artists in the game to bring fans a show they won’t forget. Joining G-Eazy is Lil’ Uzi Vert and Ty Dolla $ign, two artists who have achieved elite status and have sold millions of records each. Super producer, Murda Beatz also will hit the road apart of the all star line up. “Murda on the beat so it’s nice,” is the tag you hear on some of hottest song in the last year including “Butterfly Affect,” by Travis Scott and “Motorsport,” by Migos. A bill easily worth the price of admission. 

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here. Don’t miss out on one of the best shows this year!

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On October 5, 2017, Bronson kicked off his Blue Chips 7000 tour in Dallas, Texas. This tour has made it’s way through major cities all over the country and Connecticut was supposed to be his stop of December 9th, 2017. However, inclement weather delayed this tour date to January 20th, 2018. Safe to say that the anticipation and excitement will be through the roof as fans have waited a little over a month to see this Action Bronson tour.

The Connecticut destination is the Webster Theatre in Hartford. This venue is general admission (standing), so in addition to the anticipation that is already filling the fans, it is expected to be a jam-packed concert hall filled with frenzy when Action Bronson takes the stage. Bronson is extremely interactive with fans, which is something to always look forward to. Whether it be high fives, fist bumps or even performing an entire verse on the opposite side of a fan’s camera phone, he makes his presence felt. His choice of thumping beats, a roaring crowd and a high energy performance makes for a show that can not be missed.

Grab your tickets now before it’s too late.

Tickets can be found here.

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Last night, Lupe Fiasco’s “Tour for the Fans” finally made it’s way to NYC. I had been looking forward to this concert all week, so now that the day had finally come—I had no problem waiting 45 minutes in front of NYC’s infamous venue, B.B. Kings. While waiting, I met a few fans and we shared our hopes for the night. “I hope he does The Coolest,” I said while another fan questioned “What if he only does newer shit tonight?” Though we were all in agreement that Mural was one of our newer favorites, the thought that Lupe would only do songs from Food & Liquor 2 and Tetsuo & Youth had us shook. We even went as far as looking up a Reddit setlist from a previous show to get an idea of what the night had in store- yeah Lupe Fiasco fans don’t play.  As we went back and forth throwing out ideas of what may or may not happen, the line finally began to move. It was almost show time.

As the venue began to fill in, the crowd was warmed up with three opening acts— Z-Verse, Billy Blue, and The Boy Illinois. Chicago rapper, Z-Verse hit the stage first while Billy Blue followed up 20 minutes later. The Miami representative performed a few of his southern roots inspired tracks before Lupe joined him on stage for “Fundamentals”. Shortly after, The Boy Illinois hit the stage decked out in a blue african print suit.

Billy Blue

Though the opening acts were dope and each had their own unique sound, by 10P.M. it was clear that we were all ready for Lupe. Chants of the lyricist’s name filled B.B. Kings as we anticipated his arrival to the stage. We asked and Lupe delivered. With Double-O of Kidz in the Hall as DJ, Lupe Fiasco hit the stage performed what he called a “small introduction to Tetsuo & Youth“. As he performed each track, the crowd spit his lyrics right back at him. It was a beautiful sight to see Lupe and his fans go bar for bar, which was something I hadn’t been apart of since his set at The Glow in the Dark tour.

Around 11 P.M. I started to panic, Lupe still hadn’t performed any of his older hits. But almost as if he were reading my mind, the rapper reassured me and the rest of the crowd that the show was far from over. Before a brief intermission, Lupe broke down some rules for the show—one of them being no phones. He told us to enjoy the concert in the moment; not through the phone and he was right. There have been so many times where I had to recap what actually happened at a concert through my Snapchat story because I was too busy trying to show my friends that I was actually there instead of just enjoying myself. As I put my phone in my pocket, Double-O ran through some deep cut Lupe tracks including my personal favorite “And He Gets The Girl”.

Before I knew it, the beat to “The Coolest” was playing and the crowd got hype. Lupe ran out on the stage and performed the hit. Once again, we were rapping along with him as if we’d been waiting on this moment for all of our lives. I didn’t feel like I was at a concert, I almost felt as if I was home. We spent back and forth rapping the lyrics to “Paris, Tokyo”, “Gold Watch”, “The Show Goes On”, “Kick Push” of course, and so much more.

The way Lupe interacted with the crowd was as if he were talking to friends and family not fans. He joked with us and even pulled a few playful jabs at our expense. The crowd was living for every moment as a mini mosh pit and crowd surfing happened as Lupe performed “Next to It”. Lupe even chose someone in the crowd to rap “Dumb it Down” with him on stage and he killed it! He even asked for people’s favorite Lupe song and performed it on the spot! How many rappers do you know do that?

The “Tour for the Fans” took me right back to my high school days. It reminded me of the times I would walk through the hallways mumbling the lyrics to “Hurt Me Soul”. It reminded me of how I would blast “Kick Push” on my iPod every time I laced up my SB Dunks. Most importantly, it reminded me why Lupe was in my top 5 favorite rappers and even why I thought about hip-hop journalism in the first place— for moments like this.

Lupe Fiasco’s “Tour for the Fans” is still on the road. Checkout the rest of the tour dates below:

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Fresh off of the release of his debut album, And After That, We Didn’t Talk, Goldlink is gearing up to hit his second headlining tour. Alongside Sango, the DMV bred rapper will be performing in 18 cities starting on February 26th. NYC fans are in luck, Goldlink and Sango will be hitting Irving Plaza on March 18th.

Tickets are available here.

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For Thanksgiving, TDE‘s Jay Rock gave his NYC fans a taste of the 90059 life at SOB’s.

Hosted by Lowkey of You Heard That New, the packed show kicked off with a DJ set from MekDot of 2Dopeboyz.

New York trio, Trial & Era, opened the show and got the mellow crowd hype while performing a slew of their tracks, including the anthem “Ra-Ta-Ta-Ta.”

After their set, it wasn’t long before the man of the hour hit the stage.

The crowd rapped right along with Jay Rock as he performed tracks off of 90059, including “Easy Bake”, “Gumbo”, and “The Ways.”

The Watts rapper closed out the show with his “Vice City” verse. Even TDE’s first lady, SZA stopped by to show Jay Rock some love.

All in all, the 90059 tour was the perfect way to kickoff the holiday and end Jay Rock’s mini tour run.

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