01 May G-Eazy Has Larger Than Life Performance
“Get one hand in the air right now,” California based rapper, G-Eazy tells the crowd at the Ford Stage.
The 26-year-old rapper, dressed in a teal sweatshirt and jeans, is in complete control of the thousands who came to watch him.
Last night, G-Eazy used short, punchy songs with big hooks, tight rhymes featuring pop-culture references and a massive set backdrop behind him to put on an incredible headlining performance.
The rapper — who’s been around since 2008 but didn’t really start getting recognition until 2012 for collaborations with artists like Hoodie Allen — jumped around the stage energetically as he performed his track, “Calm Down,” to the crowd, who were pumping their arms in the air and waving around glow sticks the entire night.
G-Eazy stood in front of his elaborate set, made to look like a rundown city-strip, complete with a bar, a motel and a gentleman’s club with a red neon sign flashing ‘GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS.’ Above the neon was the rapper’s drummer.
“I kind of feel like they weren’t hearing everything I was saying,” the rapper said. “Would y’all mind if I ran it again?” The crowd cheered in acceptance. G-Eazy’s songs are short and sweet, but they have enticing hooks that get stuck in your head with ease.
“West Palm, it’s a lot of people there today, man,” the artist told the crowd. “I was just wondering — is anybody in this crowd by any chance familiar with my music?” The crowd screams and G-Eazy continues. “Maybe they’ve heard my last album, ‘When It’s Dark Out?'” The answer is a resounding yes.
“When It’s Dark Out” is G-Eazy’s second studio album. It was released at the end of last year and was named no. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
No one has ever shown as much love to Palm Beach at Sunfest than @G_Eazy did tonight. #ProudFan
— Joe Scugoza (@Scugoza) May 1, 2016
The artist performed songs like “Far Alone” and “Tumblr Girls,” replacing the word Tumblr with Florida in the latter so the verse would go, ‘I’m in love with these Florida girls.’
As G-Eazy performs his song “Lotta That,” clouds of smoke shoot out of the stage like rockets.
By the end of the night, G-Eazy closed with the song that’s put him on the mainstream map recently, “Me, Myself & I,” the rapper’s highest charting song to date (no. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100). The crowd sang along enthusiastically — so enthusiastically, you could hear them from the Tire Kingdom Stage and down the street, far past the SunFest gates on Clematis.
“That’s a lot of love out here,” the rapper says to the crowd, smiling. “I didn’t know what to expect. I wasn’t sure.”