Evaluation Essays- Ruff Ryders And Cash Money Millionaire Concert Essay, Research Paper

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Evaluation Essay

Ruff Ryders and Cash Money Millionaires

This concert was held on Thursday March 2, 2000. Some of

the hottest rap and r&b artists included in this mix were DMX,

Juvenile, Ruff Ryders, Drag On, Hot Boyz, Eve, The Lox, Lil

Wayne, Big Tymers, and B.G. It was hosted at the Marine

Midland Arena in Downtown Buffalo. Tickets ran anywhere from

$40.00 to $55.00 for the five hour long show.

The wait to get in was some what frightening due to a

check point like station everyone had to be searched at.

Police and security guards patted each and everyone down for

drugs, weapons, and what ever else they could try and stop.

After the long wait to get in you found your seat and waited

for the group who was first. You would figure that know one

would be doing any drugs due to the search before you got in

there, but I was wrong not even ten minutes before the show

you could smell the pot in the air. That was one of the few

things wrong with this wild and crazy concert. After it was

over that was all you smelled like and you were feeling the

contact buzz as it felt like things were moving in slow

motion.

DMX opened the concert with one of his greatest songs

?It?s All Good?. All the ladies in the place were going wild

when he yelled, ?where my ladies at!? while he then tore off

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his shirt and threw it in the crowd. DMX?s time on the stage

was incredible his voice was sounding good in concert unlike

most rappers voices. As the night passed on the music was

turned up a couple notches. All of the groups were sounding

good until it got to Eve. This young lady singer is nice to

here on the radio with her vocals tuned to perfection, but in

concert it was horrible and the crowd was going from crazy to

just about silent. Juvenile was the last rapper to finish the

(what felt like short) concert. By the time he came up there

the music was so loud you couldn?t here the guy sing. You

would be singing along because you know the words and when the

bass, of the beat of the song kicked in you couldn?t hear him

singing. One of his top songs ?Back That Ass Up? drove the

crowd nuts as some of ladies in the crowd became topless and

started shaking there booties. But when you could here him he

sounded excellent. By the time the whole thing was over you

were yelling ?we want more?.

Getting out of the place took five times as long as it

would getting out of a Sabers game. The reason being everyone

waited until it was over, I don?t think there was one person

who left during it. This was another downfall of the concert,

roads were packed as long as getting out of your parking space

due to the lack of road space. You would figure they would

make a one way road so you can have two or four lanes instead

of one or two.

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The majority of the crowd at the concert were very

pleased with the Ruff Ryder and Cash Money Millionaires Crew.

Most of the people I talked to like it a lot and had very few

complaints. Most of them wanted to know when the two crews

will be in town again.