Jan 9, 2016

http://www.ocweekly.com/music/young-thug-draws-the-most-eclectic-hip-hop-crowd-ever-6885763
"As good as Young Thug was last night at The Observatory, his crowd was even better. To the right of me, a wealthy-looking, middle-aged, white man was freak dancing with a Persian girl at least 30 years his junior. Behind me, a group of African-American dudes would periodically walk over to the old white guy and try to give him a dap. To my left, a group of Vietnamese kids passed around a hi-tech, futuristic Elon Musk vape pen. In front of me, a group of Latinos and Latinas rolled immaculate blunts with zen-like focus in the crowded pit of the sold out show.

There were women in high heels and evening dresses, others decked out in HBA (Hood By Air) gear. Dudes dressed in Jumpman get-ups, mingled with Mac Demarco look-a-likes sporting tattered flannel and burnt out surfer locks. Some people looked like they had to leave early because they had a geometry test at 7:50 the next morning. A grizzly-bearded man in a Big Dogs sweater was there taking his disabled son to see the show. Wyatt and Fletcher Shears from OC's own experimental punk band The Garden were in the house, all decked out in Jeffrey Lee Pierce regalia. Despite the reputation Orange County still has as an ethnically homogeneous, cultural wasteland, the scene at the Young Thug show in Santa Ana was true diversity in full effect. However, it wasn’t all that surprising."

Thug keeps winning

 

Jan 9, 2016

"As good as Young Thug was last night at The Observatory, his crowd was even better. To the right of me, a wealthy-looking, middle-aged, white man was freak dancing with a Persian girl at least 30 years his junior. Behind me, a group of African-American dudes would periodically walk over to the old white guy and try to give him a dap. To my left, a group of Vietnamese kids passed around a hi-tech, futuristic Elon Musk vape pen. In front of me, a group of Latinos and Latinas rolled immaculate blunts with zen-like focus in the crowded pit of the sold out show.

There were women in high heels and evening dresses, others decked out in HBA (Hood By Air) gear. Dudes dressed in Jumpman get-ups, mingled with Mac Demarco look-a-likes sporting tattered flannel and burnt out surfer locks. Some people looked like they had to leave early because they had a geometry test at 7:50 the next morning. A grizzly-bearded man in a Big Dogs sweater was there taking his disabled son to see the show. Wyatt and Fletcher Shears from OC's own experimental punk band The Garden were in the house, all decked out in Jeffrey Lee Pierce regalia. Despite the reputation Orange County still has as an ethnically homogeneous, cultural wasteland, the scene at the Young Thug show in Santa Ana was true diversity in full effect. However, it wasn’t all that surprising."

http://www.ocweekly.com/music/young-thug-draws-the-most-eclectic-hip-hop-crowd-ever-6885763