Ok so for a while now I was looking forward to going to see the great hangover tour featuring Asher Roth and Kid Cudi, but due to lack of finances I was not able to buy tickets. My homie from way back from the WVRU days now works at Z104 and got me and my brother the hook up to a meet and greet monday. So we make our way out to Va Beach ( in record time i might add) in the hopes of meeting Kid Cudi. So we get there and wait in the room where all this is happening and long story short Kid Cudi decided not to show for reason unknown. NOT COOL. So because of this the locals favorite Shaggy got record exec to give us free tickets. VERY COOL. So by the time all this ended it 3p and doors to the norva would not open till 6:30 so not wanting to go all the way back to hampton just to drive back to norfolk my brother and I needed to kill some time. We killed about 2 hours with an hour and a half to go. So we wound up just posting outside of the Norva. We saw Kid Cudi pass by a few times but he did not stop for pics or anything. He and I had an exchage of a head nod and a 'What up!?", that makes him slightly less of a douche SLIGHT, and he's really hot :sigh: but short, I cant do nothing with that HA! Anyways the doors open and the show begins. From the start this show is designed as a HIP-HOP show with the warm-up dj playing hip-hop classics. Something that my brother and I enjoyed very much. First up was 88 keys which we saw outside as well. Me and brother exchanged a "Stay Up" with 88 making him our new favorite. His set was solid very basic he went through much of his album The Death of Adam and was very entertaining and funny doing so.Next up was B.O.B. which we were surprised/happy that he was performing that night. We were under the impression only 88 keys was going to be there. His set was great! This dude is super super talented, very impressed. After him Asher Roth came out. I am not an Asher fan by any means but this kid put on an awesome performance. Dude they danced to "Candy Rain"! I have a video floating around hampton somewhere of me singing and dancing to that song *Note to self: find that video and destroy it!* Anyways he had a great set and his set also marked the beginning of trees floating in the air. After that Cudi took his sweet a$$ time getting to the stage. My brother was hating on him the whole time. He lost a lot of respect for the Kid that day, resulting in him not wanting to buy his album when it comes out. I dont blame him, I see where he's coming from but...I cant give up on Kid Cudi like that, cause regardless of douchbagness that took place, I am a fan of the music ya know? So he finally comes out and I have to say the light is bonkers very very cool. He played a lot of the mixtape stuff and some cuts from the upcoming album which I dug. But from the records he did perform I can tell this album is going to be a downer which I dont mind, just dont know how people are going to dig it. So the highlight of the show was when Kid Cudi performed "Make Her Say" and he friggin brought out Kanye West!!!! The Norva went BUCK. To have an artist like Kanye in a club venue like the Norva is mind blowing to say the least, absolute classic moment. After that he performed "Day N Nite" to which me and my brother left to avoid the stampede of getting out. When we went to go leave, who was at the merch booth? 88 keys! He was real cool, daped him up had a small convo and took a pic, great guy.
So overall I give the show a B+. It went smoothly until Cudi decided to take some sweet time but made up for it huge by bringing Kanye out. And although showing up for the meet and greet was soooo not cool, im quite sure he has some good reason like he did not want to deal with people that day cause you know sometimes you dont feel like dealing. I wish I can completely write him off but its not this often that I really believe in a person's music, I feel like a battered girlfriend lol 'But guuurl I luh him and he luh me too, he just got a funny way of showin it'. Plus he's hot uggggh.
