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Summer Jam 2009: Raw & Uncut @ Giants Stadium
June 8th, 2009
Leave it to HOT 97 to house the Auto-Tune lover and the Auto-Tune killer on the same stage! It’s Summer Jam, what did you expect? Last night was many things. It was foolery at its finest. It was unorthodox to the T. It was a headache because I couldn’t Twitter like I originally planned to. But it was also one of the best times thus far in 2009. And no, not solely because of the performances, but how everything unfolded.
See, what I think a lot of people fail to realize is that smooth running situations are extremely dull. And from the JUMP I could already see that Summer Jam 2009 was far from a smooth sailing event. Now, I’m not placing blame to the staff and personnel of HOT 97 because they handled their handle accordingly. This goes out to acquiring my actual credentials and being told I was at the wrong gate 56 times, to my photographer arriving 5 seconds before the show really kicked into high gear.
Let it be known, I’m a huge fan of things running smoothly, but trust and believe, if last night ran that smooth, I probably wouldn’t be equipped with this specific rhetoric thus making this post look like every other Summer Jam recap you read this morning. Me and the homies (Blogxilla, Jeff and Eric from ItsTheReal.com, Aura, Monee, Jesse Maguire, and Joe La Puma) copped a squat around the 4o Yard line and basically chillax’d there for the first hour or so.
We watched Day 26 do whatever it was they were doing onstage. We got an authentic taste of Pleasure P’s vocal ability, which isn’t too shabby might I add. We saw Elephant Man, Serani and Mavado receive extreme amounts of love from the Tri-State area. We sang, well I sang along to The-Dream’s presentation and saw Fab trot onstage like we knew he would. We heard the unofficial king of NYC, Jadakiss sporadically explain his frustrations with the music industry all while bringing Jeremih, Busta Rhymes, D-Block and Swizz Beatz to the stage for the hip-hop rendition of “Whose Song Is It Anyway.”
By this time, I received word that our backstage access had been granted- off to the races. Me, Jesse, Joe, Jeff and Eric bolted out the stands like 6 bats out of hell. We were denied at several gates before being let inside after a couple words of slick talk and promises of “We’ll be right back” banter were issued. The video below will explain the hunt for backstage exclusivity a lot better than I can tell it, so I’ll just let you watch the events unfold. Oh, some guys named Young Jeezy, Jay-Z, Drake, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Soulja Boy hit the stage, also….have you heard of them?
Sincerely
Low “Summer Jam 2009: ACCESS GRANTED” Key
Summer Jam 2009: Raw & Uncut from LowKey on Vimeo.
Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Drake And MORE Perform In Giants Stadium! from the.LIFE Files on Vimeo.
Hey, nice post, really well written. You should write more about this.