Drake live in Atlanta

One of the most anticipated stops on his “Club Paradise” tour, Drake blesses Atlanta with an astonishing event. The OVOXO rep exclaimed to the crown, “They’ve been trying to keep us apart for about a year and a half now,” this is true because Drake’s last Atlanta performance was in October of 2010.

As J.Cole introduces him Drizzy takes the stage to “Lord Knows”, his high powered Just Blaze produced record with Rick Ross from Take Care. I’ve seen videos of other performances such as the O2 Arena in London but this set came across very fresh. Drizzy’s crooning and live antics easily swooned the crowd of 17k already awakened by his openers including Meek Mill French Montana 2 Chainz Waka Flocka and the aforementioned J.Cole. 

The Drake set was theatrical, being told as a night out with your friends going to the club with each record having an accompanying light and/or small firework show. A little way through the show Drake brings out “the greatest thing to happen to  hip-hip in a long time” 2 Chainz to “No Lie” and “Spend It Remix”, shockingly T.I., came out during his verse and stayed to perform “What You Know”, after a little push by Drake, via, “I ain’t much of a favor asker, but since we are in the A, and you are The King, can we take ‘em back on some classic shit?”. Drake keeping with his “Club Paradise” theme telling the story of a night at the club brought Waka Flocka back out during his set via “You know when it’s 1:30 in the club, you’ve had one too many drinks, a nigga lookin at you funny and another one bumps you? It’s only one nigga I wanna hear at that point” and he dubbed Waka “The King of the Club,” he performed his only Drake record, “Round of Applause”. Drake at this point stopped to introduce his “brother” Future, who accompanied Drake as they performed “Tony Montana”, followed by “Same Damn Time” which surprisingly rocked the crowd like it was a Drake record.

The crowd as expected was largely women of all ages. He told a story of one women who stopped him and ask for a picture which he agreed to  and he confidently tied the “asking for a photo” in a performance of “The Motto”. Before that during French Montana’s appearance French asked “where all the real niggas at?” Drake added “Just for tonight, while we’re all here I wouldn’t take this outside of the show but real niggas can be white, Asian, latino or any race” while it was for laughs it cleverly demonstrated the all races were present.  Another genius part of his act was turning up the house lights and individually shouting out people in the crowd. Identifying them not as fans but as family and friends and as the show came to a close he left the audience with this:

“Until next time Atlanta… Take Care.”

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