Friday, May 6, 2011

You ain't got no Yeezy?

Over spring break I went to shows at SXSW. The best one by far was the Kanye West Secret Show. That day me, my girlfriend, and my friend Frank got to the line at 2:30pm. There were a few people in the line, but it was considerably short. We sat there all day. We got to know the people around us pretty well seeing as 5 hours is a long ass time to be sitting waiting. We found out that the only way to get into the concert was by having a text from VEVO saying that you were in. Well we didn't exactly have that text, but we found a place along some train tracks where the fence was open. I kept looking for other options to get in. We talked to the security guy and made a deal with him to get us in. Unfortunatly when it came time to go in, he wasn't being so helpful because he had police watching. Before they let people from the line in they let in all these groups of older people that didn't look like kanye fans. Once I realized the guy wasn't going to be able to help us, I scoped out an open area between a tent and a fence that was off to the side. When the guards were busy, my girlfriend and I walked right in to that opening. We realized we were about to be caught if we stayed with the tech-y looking people getting badges so we went to another group of people. They didnt have backpacks and all the girls had heels. Thankfully my girlfriend was able to blend in a bit and we made sure to converse with the people around us. They started sectioning off the girls and guys to check ID's, of which none of us had. My girlfriend walked up to the table and realized she needed ID, so she said she needed to get it from a friend and surprisingly was able to walk right in and past the stage area to the bathroom. I snuck in past 2 guards going around a camera man then waited in the lounge area. By that time we were in, even though we didn't have any badges, had huge backpacks, and looked like we had been outside all day. We got to watch the whole concert in the front. My girlfriend saw Bon Iver and Kanye warming up for "Lost in the World." Kid Cudi, John Legend, Pusha-T, Big Sean, Cyhi Da Prince, and last but not least Jay-Z. P Diddy stopped by to watch. "All of the Lights" was performed with the Reagan Marching Band, it was the craziest, most amazing thing ever. It was really a story of a lifetime.

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