If you just wanted to sit there, blankly staring at a performance, watch a YouTube video, or even just listen to their music from the comfort of your own home. Chants, questions, call and response, etc. To engage said crowd as displayed by the Hellgate’s own student section, you must communicate with them. If you’ve ever attended a concert, you know that to have it go successfully, the crowd needs to be engaged. Research on the mysterious disappearance of Rob Vicious and Master Kato, the missing two, turned up nothing as to why they were not at the Missoula performance of the OTX tour. The rappers who did perform were the founding members, Ohgeesy and Fenix Flexin. Confused as to where the other half of the group was? Welcome to the club. After what seemed like a never ending opening performance, 2 members of Shoreline Mafia finally came on stage. At one point he had an also unknown female rapper (potentially from the audience) join him on stage where she performed a song of her own which actually turned out to be surprisingly good, perhaps even the highlight of the evening. Playing sort of spin-offs of other rapper’s popular songs, and frequently asking the crowd what they wanted to hear in between awkward transitions from one obscure remix to the next, it was an overwhelmingly unsatisfactory performance. He himself didn’t even seem to completely know what was going on. Honestly, it’s still unknown who this replacement opener was. Finally someone appeared on the stage, although confusingly enough it was neither 1TakeJay nor Azchike. No performer was in sight when 9:30 rolled around, and the crowd was getting impatient. This is where the night began to go downhill. The scheduled openers were lesser known rappers 1TakeJay and Azchike. At 8:30, the line hadn’t moved, and Top Hat employees urged concert goers to enter from the back door where there was no line. The concert was aimed to begin at 9:30 with doors opening an hour earlier, but by 7:00 fans were lined up down the block. The concert sold out quickly, leaving many fans desperately searching for last minute tickets. Some of their well known songs are ‘Bands,’ ‘Nun Major,’ and ‘Musty’. Shoreline Mafia was founded in 2016, and consists of 4 members signed by Atlantic Records. Saturday the 26th an up and coming rap group by the name of Shoreline Mafia performed at local music venue/restaurant the Top Hat.
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