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Miami Switches it up With Some Rap

From Miami Music Week
Rolling Loud. Bayfront park is placed in between the beautiful Atlantic ocean and the stimulating city of Miami. You look to your right and you can feel the salty ocean breeze, even taste it. But if you look to your left, you're stunned by shining skyscrapers. And if you tilt your head up, you can feel the radiating Miami sun everyone speaks of. I can happily say I was able to fly from Chicago to Miami with three of my friends to experience this festival. It was May 5th through May 7th, so three days which is typical for
a festival. Not so proud to say I missed my sisters 19th birthday in order to go, but it really shows my dedication to music!

From BrooklynVegan
Every single moment of this experience is incredible, probably not as much for the locals of Miami but from a Chicago girl it was unbeatable. Miami is easily accessible from many of its suburbs, so a lot of the festivals go-ers, up to 40,000 people a day, travelled from their homes. Others stayed in hotels or apartments downtown Miami and in South Beach as well. In our case, we saved a truck load of money by staying in a family friend's apartment right on the ocean in South Beach.

There is one entrance for this festival with pretty loose security. They did a quick check of some bags, if necessary, then everyone could swiftly walk through a metal detector and were on their way! Everyone entered through a very tree covered, dusty area until the gates opened up to the large stage with chairs, as you can see in the image above. The other stage was placed directly behind the first (second image) and didn't include chairs only a dirt field; but this one had the best view of the ocean, absolutely breathtaking.

And now we discuss the artists, which were just as breathtaking as the ocean. This was one of the most talked about hip-hop/rap music festivals of all of 2017. A few major headliners consisted of: Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, A$AP Rocky, Travi$ Scott, Young Thug, Post Malone, Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, Joey Badass, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. For any of you readers out there that know rap, I would bet some good money you just screamed at your screen after reading that INSANE lineup.
From MTN News

Since there were two stages in very close proximity, it was very easy to bounce back and forth between the two in order to fit in all the artists. But it definitely started to get difficult at night when the big artists came on which forced me to choose and stay put at my stage, grasping my spot in the crowd so some beefed up guy didn't shove me over. Which is very easy considering I am not that big.

This festival did create a significant amount of controversy for the city of Miami. A month beforehand, the city threatened the cancel the entire event because they were scared of what this festival would bring to their city. But the advocates and organizers prevailed through the worst and received an unanimous vote from the board to allow the festival for early May. Many locals from Miami were opposed to the festival assuming that the many people who were attending were going to rough up the city or create some problems for them. But because of the revenue that this had the potential of bringing in and the happiness it causes the festival go-ers, the board allowed it to happen.

The fashion was still incredible to observe. It was definitely different than Chicago, it had a lot more of a diversified, ethnic feel to it. Miami New Times created a great slideshow of some people they found to stick out from the rest of the crowd. These people's styles were more representative of themselves and partly representing the artists they went to see. It included a lot of popular brands among rappers like Supreme, Billionaire Boys Club, HUF and Diamond Supply. This festival clearly had a higher attendance of males rather than females but that's expected. I included my own great find; a crazy tattoo on a random girl's back that I just had to ask to take a picture of. It was really cool to be able to go to a whole other city, with very different groups of people that differs greatly from Chicago.

Festival Tip: Narrow down your top artists and make sure to stick to them and follow the times because the good viewing spots are taken up very fast. 



Location: Bayfront Park, 301 North Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132, USA

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