So I decided at the very last minute I was going to head down to the stadium and buy tickets from one of the scalpers that hang around in front of the events. No one on craiglist was caving they still wanted 200 bucks a ticket in nosebleed. (I am way to cheap to pay that) I called up my friend and we were off to try and get tickets to Kanye West.
We asked around and finally found a desperate scalper that gave us tickets for 80 bucks each, row 21 floor. We were stoked and off we went. We had missed Lupe Fiasco, and NERD but we weren’t too concerned.
Here are a few highlights from the concert
Rihanna did a great job, although most of the time I couldn’t help but think how terrible her hair looks. At one point she looked too much like Michael Jackson that it scared me. She had on this red jacket, and these leather pants, and it just reminded me of thriller.
One last thing on Rihanna, she made quite the scandalous move with the microphone while singing Lauren Hill’s “That Thing”. I didn’t get a movie, of it so I searched on youtube and found one but you can’t really see because the camera cuts it off. You can kinda see what she is up to. She uses the microphone as a male appendage!
On to Kanye…
He did the whole show on his own, no dancer or anything. It was basically just him and his broken spaceship. Oh did I mention that the spaceship talked? I have to say that Kanye’s acting was so cheezy but it did make me smile a few times. The highlight was definitely when these shooting stars came down, and told him he was the “biggest star in the universe”. Later on, the spaceship told Kanye that it needed his superstar energy to get repaired so they could get back home. Oh and Kanye also prays to God that if they get back to earth, he won’t spaz at award shows anymore!
One more thing, everyone kept putting up their hands in the shape of diamonds, and I was so confused as to why they kept doing this through the whole concert. I think it has something to do with the song Diamonds Are Forever… I am still pondering about that…
Fastforwarding to the encore, Kanye went on a wild rap rant about how everyone thinks he is arrogant, and explained his behavior by saying when we see athletes angry on the sidelines after losing a game, that Kanye is just feeling the same way, and that he loves to express himself. He also mentioned that reviewers that ’sit amongst the fans’ waiting to criticize him would only mention that he thought he was the biggest star in the universe. Seriously Kanye, why would you even say that, you know that anyone who hears that will tell whoever will listen. If he hates people that critique things, he shouldn’t give them fuel to work with.
Lastly as we were leaving the concert we were given a little book called. Thank You and You’re Welcome. It was a nice gesture on Kanye’s part to give everyone a little gift. Inside this book was more rants from Kanye but in a more philosophical way.