After a little more than an hour of a hard as nails set that had the bikini-clad rumps shaking at Bonnaroo, Enimen thanked the crowd and left the stage.
Nearly 80,000 fans changed Shady! In a thunderous roar for five minutes until the hip hop’s angry king returned to the stage for a triumphant encore of Lose Yourself capping the day rap took over Bonnaroo.
Saturday kicked off with Big Boi and Lil Wayne laying down early morning sets, inexplicably overlapping, shortly after arcade Fire’s Friday night finale, and the takeover continued with Wiz Khalifa on the big stage during a hot afternoon set before Enimen destroyed his Bonnaroo debut. There’s weren’t the first rappers at the four day festival down on the farm in Tennessee. The event is known more for its granola flavored ethos than its urban cool, but Jay Z turned in one of the most memorable sets in the festival’s ten year history in 2010 and expectations were high for Saturday’s take over. The most concentrated collection of star MC’s at Bonnaroo.
Big Boi mixed in his own songs with Outkast favorites, Lil Wayne played it naughty with the crowd and debuted tracks from his forthcoming album.
And Khalifa kept the crowd sky high by preaching the gospel of weed to a willing choir that included a man who wore a Marijuana cures Racism t shirt dancers with flowers in their hair and joints in their hands, and girls in bikinis crowd surfing. The day was full of odd things and Black And Yellow was also played while just a few hundred yards away Mumford and sons tore through a set of fiery folk rock as fans watched over a nearby fence and from atop ATM’s. the sold out crowd appeared to be evenly split among the two rising stars of their genres.
