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| Only photographers at the Cape Town event were allowed to take pics of Em during his performance. Lucky bastards |
“I love Joburg…’Cos I’m fucking someone’s mom
tonight.” Eminem’s hype man Mr Porter
was typically vulgar at Eminem’s concert in Ellis Park on 1 March 2014. He said
this after asking someone in the crowd if their mom was a MILF (Mom I’d Like to
Fuck).
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| Viva South Africa! |
Mr Porter has a big mouth, but Eminem never said
much in between songs to the 60k plus crowd of roaring fans who were hypnotized
by the supernatural like aura of the self-proclaimed rap god.
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| Jack Parrow, hosts a hip hop set in Afrikaans... |
The concert also allowed me to experience Afrikaans
rapper Jack Parrow’s energy live for the first time. He had a full on live
band; guitarists, drummers, vocalist plus a DJ who all added that unplugged
feel to his set.
It was drizzling a bit when Action Bronson, the New York
rapper tagging along with Em’, came on after Jack and first thing he did when
he appeared on stage was lighting up a marijuana joint, after which he asked
the crowd if they know who he is, where he is from, if they are enjoying the
show etc but not without using a whole lot of fucks as conjunctions for his
sentences.
Action’s performance was barely average, his raps
are pretty sharp though unnecessarily vulgar, while his flow brings back
nostalgic memories of mid 90s New York rap. Not really sure if he will become a
phenomena in SA anytime soon though.
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| Action Bronson rocking a Bok jersey while smoking zol during his CPT show, Spliffbokke?. |
DJ PH, a local hip hop DJ, came on before Jack and
got us warmed up with commercial and underground rap music mixed with a little
bit of boom bap. After his set PH received claps from the 10k or so people who
had arrived early. Not really sure who the other DJ was but he was so wack
nobody even noticed or gave a fuck that his set got cut prematurely.
Eminem came on early in the evening and wasted no
time shooting raps like an AK, flawlessly, word for word, with non-of that lip syncing bull shit most international
artists shove down our throats when they perform on our shores.
And like true pro’s, neither he nor Mr.Porter
stuttered or got their lines tangled when they rapped the second and third
tongue twisting, super-fast verses in Rap God.
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| A facade with the word Eminem projected onto it just before it dropped to reveal Eminem who was standing behind it. |
Em’ also performed controversial songs like White
America & Kill You plus majors like Love The Way You Lie and Monster, using
a live songstress for Rihanna’s chorus’s which everyone appreciated.
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Mr. Porter or Kon Artis’ as he was known when him
and Eminem were part of the now defunct
6 man rap crew D12, is a hype man’s wet dream and the show wouldn’t have been
half as dope if he wasn’t there to shadow Eminem, mimicking and backing every
song so flawlessly the songs could just as easily been his.
Eminem brought out Royce Da 59, his home boy from
way back in the 90s and early 2000s when the two were giants in underground
rap, and the other half of Eminem’s latest rap crew, a duo called Bad Meets
Evil, to perform Lighters, a joint
which features Bruno Mars on the chorus.
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| "I'm slim Shady cos im the real Shady...Please stand up" Watch these blondes try rapping The Real Slim Shady here |
After that, both Em’ and Mr.Porter vacated the stage
so Royce could spit one solo track on his own. Thereafter Em came back on to
wrap up his short but very sweet show,
which had so many verbal nukes it’s a miracle the stadium didn’t get razed
after the bombardment.
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| "I feel like there weren't enough fans, people just came here cos its 'Eminem' " Listen to the rest of his opinion here |
Ellis Park is famously known as the stadium where former
president Nelson Mandela and 1995 Springbok captain Francois Pienaar lifted the
rugby world cup together, but there are
many similiarities between that and the Rapture2014 concert…
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| And this was just the Golden Circle hours before the main show |
…Eminem’s show filled up the stadium, it united
South African’s of different colours and it stirred up many sentimental
emotions… So fuck it, why not rename Ellis Park the Marshal Mather’s Stadium?
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| Watch what people thought about the concert on our vox pops |
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