Last Lap Tour Makes A Pit Stop At The iThink Amphitheater in West Palm Beach

If you were looking for a fun night of Old School Hip Hop and Rap  and mostly great weather, this was it.

This is the second Hip Hop and Rap show I’ve attended in the past couple of weeks.  Honestly, I don’t have much to complain about.  I like all kinds of music and just as many different artists as you may have already noticed.  This was definitely one I was looking forward to seeing. 

Apparently, so were 12,000 other people along with Ne-Yo, and tennis powerhouses Venus and Serena Williams, who were all seen around the venue. 

At one point I was less than five feet from Venus Williams, both of us grooving to some old school Emenim.  Dressed down from her usual A list finery to stay incognito, I saw those cheek bones and knew immediately who she was. (At her request, I did not take her photo.) Once she started getting recognized by the crowd, she was wisked away by several security personnel.

Jeremih kicked off the show with an eyebrow raising flight attendant safety demo (make sure to blow on that *sic air* tube), for “I’m Your pilot”. It was no surprise to see that followed with, as I’ve begun  calling them, arial artists. To be honest, it is a pretty impressive talent.  I do really enjoy some of it.  It takes a large degree of grace required to make that look as easy as they do.

Jeremih turned in a pretty good set.  Performing his well known “Birthday Sex”. Song to a very pleased crowd.

From the moment the opening for Busta Rhymes began, you knew he was going for a king status.  The build up, the three dimensional tribal masks displayed on the huge screens, all of it screamed ” I know exactly who I am”.  When the LED thrown spun around to face the crowd, the screams were deafening. 

Without question, he owned and savoured that moment.  I love him. He just exudes a great spirit from the stage. With a larger than life persona that not too many others can keep pace with.  I remember commercials, movies and cameos, he’s blazed a trail for many other artists to cross over into other forms of art. 

I don’t know him personally, but I really want to.  He seems like he’s a great story teller off the stage as much as on. He was perfection.  He owned every inch of the stage.  He was as vibrant and charismatic as he was in the past, and truly thrilled to see the crowd reaction.

By the time 50 Cent came on around 9:15, I thought the crowd had reached its peak. I was wrong.  The opening of the show really had everyone on their feet. An homage to illusionists with him dematerializing behind a back lit screen and finally appearing from a cloud of smoke in a box mid-stage.

He is a powerhouse, and has established himself as part of the elite group that can be called legendary. Nearly everyone knows something he has been a part of. Discovered by Eminem he’s had the ability to woo over a diverse group of people, which a fan who attended pointed out.

He’s won seventy six awards including a Prime Time Emmy for the 2022 Superbowl. The Grammys, BET, MTV, BET Hip Hop Awards. They have all bestowed love and accolades upon him. Definitely worth seeing to say you’ve experienced it.