Dressed in his usual outfit of black leather trousers, black boots and a leather jacket, The Detroit MC ran around the stage delivering a barrage of near indecipherable rhymes.
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“I’m going to the tent and I’m making out with your mother,” he said.ĭanny Brown played the penultimate slot on the BBC Radio 1xtra Stage, warming the Leeds crowd up for a headline set from Joey Bada$$ with a performance full of huge bass drops and a capella rapping. The track concluded with flames blazing, smoke billowing and Macklemore on a podium, bellowing “Leeds” at the top of his lungs.
After, Macklemore emerged wearing a gold cape and Rod Stewart-style wig, surrounded by dancers decked out like aerobics instructors, for a closing ‘And We Danced’. ‘Wings’ closed the main part of the set, and a recorded comedy skit introduced the encore. The following track, Cadillac, saw the group joined by rapper Schoolboy Q, who had performed earlier. “Can’t Hold Us”, which followed, saw the pockets of the crowd erupt in frenzied dancing, and Macklemore joining in with the front row.
“I did not know that this jacket was gonna smell the way it does and be warm and wet – kind of like fresh urine,” he said. The garment was passed from crowd to stage and Macklemore proceeded to put it on. After, a furry beige jacket worn by a member of the crowd caught the rapper’s eye. On a similarly serious tip, a speech about equality followed by means of introducing the anti-homophobia track ‘Same Love’. “I have a lot of flaws and a lot of vices, but I can say right now if it wasn’t for me getting sober for the first time in 2008 I wouldn’t be up here on this stage,” he said. Before ‘Otherside’, the rapper put the song in context in his career. “I know this festival has a long lineage of bands and mud and camping and probably some STDs involved in it, but to me that’s what the summer is all about…,” he said. Vocalist Fences joined the large ensemble for recent track ‘Arrows’, after which Macklemore showed he’d been doing his homework. “I’ve got to be honest, I haven’t a clue what you’re all saying,” he said. Their global hit ‘Thrift Shop’, came early in the set – and it was a well rehearsed set piece involving dance routines, plumes of flame and a crowd singalong of the key lines, “I wear your grandad’s clothes, I look incredible…” After, the crowd chanted ‘You what, you what – Leeds’ at the rapper, who looked puzzled.
The rap duo’s brass section trumpeted their arrival. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis‘ Main Stage set began with a fanfare – literally. The band’s set was met with screams and sing alongs throughout with a closing trio of singles in the shape of ‘Girls’, ‘Sex’ and ‘Chocolate’ warming fans up before headliners Disclosure. The rapper then paid tribute to Captial Steez, the MC from Joey’s New Era hip-hop crew who passed away in 2012.īefore the closing ‘Survival Tactics’ he addressed the crowd for a final time and said, “I go by the name of Joey Bada$$, get home safe”. The DJ played a snippet of House Of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’ and Joey was then joined onstage by a second MC for a rendition of ‘Big Dusty’, the first single from his upcoming debut album. He went on to hold up a vinyl copy of ‘1999’, to loud cheers from the audience. Referring to the New York district he lives in, He led his fans in a chant of “Say Brooklyn”. Joey Bada$$ is yet to release his debut album, and the first half of his set was packed with songs taken from ‘Summer Knights’ and his debut mixtape ‘1999’. The crowd sang along to every word of the track, which featured on his 2013 mixtape ‘Summer Knights’. Wearing a floppy bucket hat and baseball jacket, he opened with ’95 Til Infinity’.
The teenage New York rapper, real name Jo-Vaughn Scott, was greeted by loud cheers from the stage’s biggest crowd of the day.
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After his DJ warmed the crowd up for 20 minutes with a series of hip-hop classics, Joey Bada$$ emerged to play the final set on the BBC Radio 1xtra Stage.
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