While many rappers, bands and artists may like to claim that their fan base is the wildest, Scott’s take the cake – and it isn’t close. Travis Scott fans are an entirely different breed of music fans. Although fans were only forced to wait another three months, last night was definitely worth the wait and fans already can’t wait to welcome La Flame back to Milwaukee. Lucky for Milwaukee, with the announcement of a second leg of Travis Scott’s tour, a new Fiserv Forum stop was added to the calendar. 8 date was postponed due to production issues, without a replacement date immediately announced, the cynical side of me wondered if the postponement would later turn into a cancellation. The Astroworld culture has even took on such a life that Houston’s mayor is looking to ride the wave by building a new amusement park in Scott’s hometown.Īdmittedly, I was uncertain if last night would actually happen. With amusement park decorations and even arena employees wearing carnival inspired uniforms, Travis Scott went all out. Dubbed the Astroworld Tour, inspired by Houston’s Six Flags Astroworld, which closed in 2005, the G.O.O.D Music rapper transformed the entire Fiserv Forum into an amusement park. Travis Scott picked a theme and completely ran with it for his new tour. If the building can survive a Travis Scott show, it can survive anything. Let’s hope that last night’s show was just one of many rap concerts that Fiserv Forum will host in the coming years. With his history of great Milwaukee performances and entertaining live sets, Travis Scott was the perfect artist to change the trend. In fact, a major Milwaukee arena hadn’t hosted a rap concert in over a decade – but that all changed on Friday night. Unfortunately, the Bradley Center was late to the party and rarely hosted rap performances. From Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s epic Summerfest performance to the countless number of rap shows at The Rave, Milwaukee has embraced the genre. Milwaukee isn’t necessarily a hub for mainstream hip-hop, but the city’s biggest rap fans have certainly enjoyed a number of memorable concerts throughout the years. Here are eight reasons you shouldn’t have missed Travis Scott’s ‘night show’ at Fiserv Forum. If Travis Scott’s multiple dates at The Eagles Ballroom gave you "Goosebumps" on his last tour, then last night was beyond imaginable. Organizers couldn’t have picked a better show either, as Friday night’s sold-out show was far from tame and one that the city will be talking about for quite some time.įrom start to finish, the brand new arena’s foundation was tested while fans on the general admission floor moshed throughout the 90-minute show. Originally scheduled for last December, the "Sicko Mode" rapper delivered as promised and brought the second leg of his tour to Milwaukee for Fiserv Forum’s first rap performance. “Not to stereotype, but there were lots of jock-looking dudes whose only interest was to go in there and hip check and shoulder check as many people as they could as hard as they could."Anything can happen at the night show," even Milwaukee’s first major arena concert by a rapper in over a decade, and that’s just what went down last night as Travis Scott brought his critically acclaimed " Astroworld: Wish You Were Here" tour to Fiserv Forum. “In the mid-to-late-’80s I saw lots of people going into the pit specifically to wreak havoc and perpetrate violence against others,” Ian says. Suddenly, a cultural element that had defined solidarity turned into a divisive contest of physical strength. This dynamic changed, though, when the big metal bands outgrew the club scene and started getting booked at mid-size venues, outdoor sheds and eventually arenas and festival grounds. “And then you learned, oh, I shouldn’t act like an a-.” “In 19, if you went into the pit and you were a jerk, you were going to get yanked out and maybe knocked out,” Ian says. The crowd at the Lamb of God concert on Feb. Bands didn’t want to watch their fans get hurt and when bad apples entered the pit and threw their weight around, either the artists onstage or concerned crowd members often tried to remedy the situation. Pits became more violent, but the core values of metal fans were similar to those from the hardcore scene. In the mid ’80s, popular thrash metal bands, including Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth adopted the rapid-fire rhythms and chugging, surging riffs of hardcore metal.
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