Comments on: “Glow In The Dark” Tour Review: Philly

By: dark vanilla

dark vanilla — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:59:26 +0000

Fuck this faggot. I thought the Glow in the Dark Tour was dope. I wonder if this review was what Kanye wuz talking bout when he talked bout critics at the end of his concert.

By: Cinsere

Cinsere — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:59:05 +0000

Good concept does not necessarily = good execution.

By: Cinsere

Cinsere — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:46:05 +0000

For christ’s sake! Learn the difference between critiquing and “hating,” people! There’s a purpose for critics, and that’s so that when an artist’s ego blows to the size of Kanye’s, to the point where he’ll do any and everything he can think of and think that it’s the best thing ever done, someone from an objective standpoint can tell him “um, you really could’ve done this and that better.” Ya’ll niggaz that scream “hater” all the time make me think that you would be happy with a world full of yes-men, so that nobody would ever say anything bad about anybody.

Kanye is a great producer and artist, but he’s nothing special on stage. He doesn’t have good stage presence, and he over-performs everything. The melodrama gets annoying very quickly. And this review encapsulates everything I thought this show would be like, which is precisely why, despite my girl begging me to take her, I didn’t go. I want to see good performing, not a light show.

But I guess I’m “hating” too, huh?

By: majornasty

majornasty — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:26:54 +0000

I’m a fan of all kinds of music and I’ve been to about 400 concerts. I saw Kanye play new years eve in Vegas and It was the best hip hop show I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen Jay, Em and 50. It was one of his 1st shows he did after his Mom died and the raw passion and emotion was undeniable, not to mention the stage show which rivaled Nine inch Nails or Pink Floyd. It obviously wasn’t your typical rap show and was an amazing concert for any music fan.

By: Dre Peoples

Dre Peoples — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:02:00 +0000

If you gay niggas don’t stop hating on real artist and stop listening to soulja boy and prodigy and all these other washed up and untalented rappers then yall should just commit to be fit(into a casket)…The damn concert is ment to be like a movie,understand dummy’s.Do the actors on the movie screen interact with the auidience?Does Sara Jessica Parker acknowlege you for helping her movie do better than Harrison Fords?NO,so stop acting like he has to speak and interact with the audience for it to be a good show.He crashed on an uknown planet and your witnessing how he’s gonna make it and he shows you through his music.Thats why he did “goldigger”(he missed females) or “Homecoming”(he made it home)DUH!…It wasn’t a “Concert” It was a day in the life of Kanye’s Mind.Sluets!

By: keke

keke — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:38:12 +0000

And also, a comment on Jay. I love Jay, I think he is one of the best ever in the rap game. But his performance style can fall flat to me at times. Jay does acknowledge his audience but he just stands there in one spot. He will move around from time to time but he does not have the energy that Kanye or Common, or Black Thought has. Overall, I think there are things that you can enjoy from many great performers and there are things that you wish were better. I think that Kanye is trying to set himself up to be known as one of the greatest performers, rappers, producers, writers in music period. Not just rap. He is trying to prove he can do a one man show with no hype, no supporting casts…all by himself…and I think that he is on his way to that great musician status.

By: keke

keke — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:20:28 +0000

I have to agree with Jig Insane. I was at the Uniter Center Friday night and I thought the concert was phenomenal. I go to concerts regularly and I have seen many different kinds of shows. I think that Kanye was trying to expose the hip hop audience to a different kind of show. A show that doesn’t rely on 12 hype men on stage reciting the last syllable of each word. He was so into the show, he was passionate, he danced, he gave emotion. He was the only man on the stage and the entire audience was into his set. Since the theme of his show was being trapped on an unknown planet, he is by himself, and trying to get back home. He stayed in character. I don’t think that any show is flawless but he did not miss the mark. Maybe it was different cause he was home but I have seen reviews and heard ppl from other parts of the country who loved his show as well. I think that this was a show that we are not used to, a different theme. Ppl will take from it what they want but I thought he did an amazing job, and it was very inspiring.

By: Jig Insane

Jig Insane — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:57:33 +0000

This review is crazy, I was just at the Chicago stop and the shit was off the chain. everyone played they part. Kanye came on and shutt he shit down period. He was on way longer then an hour in his hometown, and i thought him being able to control the stage without all the annoying hype people were excellent. He kept everyones attention, stading and juimping around and didnt need dancers and other sidetracks.

Essentially the man made an intimate concert with a grand audience. this was the best large scale concert i’ve ever been to, Ye’ Owned the United Center that night, and just the month before I saw Mary and Jay there, but they were nothing compared to this. Thanks for coming home Ye’ now go and conquer the world. till the next my nigga.

By: droopey

droopey — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:35:52 +0000

hmm thats true the artist is suppost to hype the crowd even more not just rely on the new technology.

By: gkid12345

gkid12345 — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:03:42 +0000

hiphop has become so fken gay when they accept a fag like this guy. I wish B.I.G and Tupac would come back for a week to annihilate these sucker weak mc’s.

By: JG

JG — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:12:38 +0000

the concert was sick. whoever says it wasnt must not have seen the same shit as i did.

By: phantom

phantom — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:10:32 +0000

I thought the show was freekin sweet. I’m glad he wasn’t talkin so much…all that “Whats up(your city here)!?” ..corny segways into the next song etc. etc. I thought the show was fresh. For the most part he uses the voice he recorded with, when so many other times artists yell and sound boo boo. Completely original. It was G.O.O.D.
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By: psmith

psmith — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:01:44 +0000

Disagree I was at the concert and it was a great experience…The crowd was into it 90 percent of the time…the crowd only slowed down when they needed a rest fro yelling and screaming not bcause of a certain way in which he performed.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:22:47 +0000

I am really curious as to if the writer of this review has ever been to another rap concert. So you would rather just have an artist run around stage with a black back drop while his annoying friends accent the last word of every line? I can do that in my basement. Were you even listening to what Kanye was saying at the show? Were you listening to what the “spaceship” was saying. “Creativity is dead on this planet.” I can see why…bc people get pursecuted for trying new things. “OMG, this wasn’t like every other rap show I’ve been too, I don’t like this.” Open your eyes, Kanye cares about his fans by putting the kind of effort into his tour that he did. Not just by rapping in front of a black curtain and telling everybody to put their hands up.

By: Youngsouth23

Youngsouth23 — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:08:17 +0000

Who ever wrote this is wack yo. That show was on point from beginning to end. So what this nigga didn’t say nothing to the ppl OMG!!! That was so bad on kayne’s part. Come on if this dude ain’t say nothin to the ppl the whole show that probably would have still been saying that was a great show. It seems like to me when somebody can’t think of somthing like this or do something like this they have to pick out all the bad things about it. I agree with Lastgreat1. The dude that wrote this why won’t he go win a MTV award, A Grammy, A BET and whatever other awards Kanye has won. Let him go be a super producer on top of perform in different countries and ppl over there knowing your name, on top of your mother’s death in the back of your mind. Let him go do that and then he can talk about Ye and his big ass screens and not speaking to the crowd. He is what you call hiphop.

By: mikey t

mikey t — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:33:59 +0000

he ripped off Daft Punk on “Stronger”, and it sucked… now he tried to rip off Daft’s stage show and it crashed and burned…

By: eskay

eskay — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:47:38 +0000

you wildin Jay.

somebody complained to me about him not talking at MSG earlier today. since when does that make or break a performance? I really didn’t even notice that until ya’ll pointed it out.

By: Lastgreat1

Lastgreat1 — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:36:27 +0000

This writer sounds like a hater. Its art stupid, its however Kanye wants to protray it to the world. It sucks when you do something positive and people try to find something wrong, just to take attention away from what he’s doing. With all the writing this guy does, he should write an album, go on concert and show the world how its done.

By: WF

WF — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:35:18 +0000

i gotta disagree. i thought the concert was dope from beginning to end. kanye really did his thing.

By: Trey Stone

Trey Stone — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:24:38 +0000

oh shit