Wiz Khalifa show Chicago a summer tour
Hollywood Casino Amphitheate, Tinley Park, IL, USA, July 29, 2018
by Sommer Thornton
Wiz Khalifa is out on tour again, this time getting Dazed & Blazed with co-headliners Rae Sremmurd, OT Genesis and newcomer Lil Skies. As they burn through their 27-city summer tour, the energetic show brings together Khalifa’s laid back hipster genre-bending rhymes with Sremmurd’s sing-songy party rap and Lil Skies drill-infused rap. Funny thing is, on stage the three acts have a lot in common, more than just dreadlocks.
July 29, the Dazed & Blazed tour hit the Hollywood Casino amphitheater just outside of Chicago, IL. Wiz and his gang of grunge rappers performed for a packed house that had an aura of a potent plant permeating throughout.
Both Khalifa and Sremmard are promoting new projects, Wiz his Rolling Papers 2 album and Sremmurd their third album titled SR3MM with multiple hits including “Black Beatles,” “Powerglide” and most recently, “Guatemala.” Lil Skies may be new to the mainstream, but he’s been on his grind since very young age.
Lil Skies
Lil Skies hit the stage first with a fiery performance. He’s on a fast trajectory to the top of the rap game with hits like “Red Roses” and “Lust.” The crowd must’ve been full of his millions of Youtube viewers because they moshed with every verse he rapped off his new Life of a Dark Rose album. Lil Skies delivers passionate trap rhymes that get a party jumpin. Regardless if his bars are redundant, Lil Skies is so hyped while he performs he makes it hard to sit still.
Rae Sremmurd was up next, and while they have several hits I was looking forward to seeing live like “Black Beatles,” and “Perplexing Pegasus,” their performance was lackluster. The duo mostly rapped along with their tracks up high, sometimes drowning them out. Then at times Swae Lee, whose mousy voice is usually fittingly melodic against gritty trap beats and chill tracks alike, would stop singing all-together seemingly out of breath. The crowd was hyped but the group needs better stage presence. They seemed like their own hype man or like they were having a dope party on stage.
Wiz Khalifa hit the stage and as usual delivered an energetic enjoyable show. He jumped on stage to his newest hit, “Fr Fr,” and the crowd woke up. Then he ran
Wiz Khalifa
through many of his rap hits like “Work Hard Play Hard,” and some of his mixtape hits. The best parts were when Khalifa threw huge inflatable joints in the crowd, and when he hit a blunt from a guy in the front row. Wiz also brought out Swae Lee to perform their track, “Hopeless Romantic.”
Wiz Khalifa continues to be a monster on the road and has only gotten better over the years. They guy can sing and rap live, and has a bangin new bod thanks to his MMA training at the Unbreakable Performance Center in Hollywood. He showed a crowd a taste of his workout regimen in a short film that played halfway through the show.
In just a decade Wiz has become a rap legend and a mentor to the young rappers in the game who are grateful to tour with him.
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