September 5, 2018-PHS website and blogger. In addition to choosing to rap instead of rap-sing some of his hits’ trademark melodies, a mid-set dip into the latter and lesser-known portion of his catalog, along with a section where the DJ played other artist’s hits, may have led to a noticeable portion of the crowd heading for the exits. Live performance of 'Shanti Dope' by Shanti Dope himself and Gloc-9 on Bone Thugs N Harmony Concert at MOA Arena. While Nelly captured the sell-out crowd’s attention early, he couldn’t seem to hold it.
After opening with lesser-known hit “Party People,” he front-loaded his setlist with a combo of hits and snippets of popular collaborations that included “E.I.,” Jagged Edge’s “Where The Party At,” “Shake Ya Tailfeather,” “Batter Up” and “Air Force Ones.” He had the Kentucky crowd in his hand at that point and kept it there a little longer with his first hit “Country Grammar” for his “day one” fans (which was remixed to include the beat of Drake’s current hit single “Nice For What”) and “Ride Wit Me.” He also performed the remix of country group Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise,” which he bounced along to emphatically, as if it was his own hit record. Just shy of 10 p.m., Nelly came on stage with the type of confidence that only artists who have sold more than 10 million records tend to have. Nelly performs at Whitaker Bank Ballpark in Lexington, Kentucky.
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He saved full versions or snippets of some of his biggest hits like “Slow Motion” and the signature New Orleans bounce of “Ha!” toward the end of his set but won the crowd over with self-awareness and a sense of humor, asking all the “STD-free people” to put their hands in the air before shouting, “even if you didn’t come here to see me, I got your (expletive) hands up, don’t I?” The combination of artists who hit their commercial peak in the mid-1990s through the early aughts brought out a diverse crowd in age, race and gender (some sporting Nelly’s early signature look of a band-aid under the eye) that were there to dance, sing along to hits, indulge in some nostalgia or maybe all of the above.Īfter a short DJ set, New Orleans-based rapper Juvenile hit to the stage with a DJ and his son as his hype man. On a picturesque and comfortable spring Saturday night perfect for a baseball game, the nearly 8,000 people in Whitaker Bank Ballpark witnessed something very different when they looked toward second base: A trio of platinum-selling hip-hop acts in the form of Nelly, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Juvenile.įor Lexington, it was a rare large-scale showcase for the musical genre that was overwhelmingly well-received by those in attendance Saturday night.
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