Thankfully, the fights didn't derail Snow for good. She looked like she was losing faith in Denver, even joking, “If you don’t get it together with the fights, I’ll name you New Mexico.” ![]() You’re fucking ruining my moment.you see, you’re really fucking this shit up for me.” While some artists might walk away from a confrontation and let security handle it, Snow came to the front of the stage and called out to the people brawling. “Tonight’s the last show of the decade, bitch,” she said, explaining that she usually saved her voice for her next stop, but since she wouldn’t be playing until 2020, she’d perform till her throat was raw.Ī couple more fights started toward the front of the crowd. She played favorites like “Ay Ay Ay,” “Say Bitch,” "Bilingüe” and “Goin Off.” The crowd knew many of them by heart. She rambles and banters, takes breaks for long shots of tequila and then, finally, just when you’ve had enough, erupts into her next song. The way she interacts with her DJ and hypemen and the audience, she creates the illusion that we've been invited into her living room for a party. Snow’s a rapid-fire rapper who grabs the crowd with catchy strong hooks that everybody quickly learns and sings along to. “In every interview I do, I say Denver was the first city to make me cry, because of how much they fucking love me," she told us - as she always does. If Squizzy turned the Mission into a nightclub and Yasi turned it into a stadium, Snow made it feel like home. But when she came to the front of the stage, she popped a champagne bottle and sprayed the crowd. There was so much smoke blowing from the fog machines, it took a few minutes for it to clear enough for us to see her. So we screamed her name some more, the video ran again, and she finally arrived. Either she wasn’t where she was supposed to be backstage or we weren’t shouting loudly enough. An intro video started playing and it looked like she was going to come out.but then she didn’t. ![]() “Hey, Redhead,” hypeman and rapper Jandro belted out to one of the squabblers, “I know you don’t want to get kicked out before Snow comes out.” And then he said, “We got to have a smoke break to calm these motherfuckers down.”īrandon Johnson After getting the crowd to repeatedly scream “Pop a perk and feel the rush," the hypemen led us in several “” chants, demanding we crank it up to a ten. When a fight broke out near the front of the stage, the hypemen encouraged security to separate the people rather than give them the boot. “While we all have our political opinions and you're entitled to that, because of democracy, I just want to encourage every single one of you in this room to vote, to register to vote, and not even for the presidential election but for the country and the state."Īfter YaSi played and people took a break to buy drinks and snap photos in front of the Mission’s murals, Snow’s hypemen goaded us to take shots of tequila and smoke, shouting: “If you don’t get your hands up, you’re a bitch-ass motherfucker.” “Two weeks ago there were huge protests all across Iran, and for about a week and a half, I didn't know if my family was alive or dead,” she continued. The Muslim ban happened and sanctions against Iran happened, and basically calling our family and seeing how they were doing was impossible. Before kneeling on the edge of the stage and singing her brooding song “Again, Again I," YaSi reminded us to take care of our mental health.īrandon Johnson After declaring her Iranian-American identity, she told the crowd, “The election that we had personally affected my life in a really bad way. He shouted out to the audience, building up the hype, and keeping people moving.Īs Squizzy packed his gear, YaSi's bandmates set up theirs, and soon she strutted on, shouting “Denver, what’s up?” She owned the house, connected with the audience, danced and sang with extraordinary energy, and prepped the crowd for Snow. Around 7:30 p.m., he had the half-full Mission looking like a nightclub, as the crowd danced to a mix of Top 40 and Latin. ![]() I’m sad to admit that I was charging my phone and hunting down earplugs, so I missed Splyt’s set. That’s the type of support the city’s music scene needs, and proud Denver music fans love. Having so many hometown musicians on that lineup is a hopeful sign that the talent buyers at AEG might start putting more Denver musicians on the Mission stage. But when the California-based rapper played the Mission Ballroom on Friday night, December 20, the lineup included Denver's DJ Squizzy Taylor, pop rapper Splyt and pop singer YaSi: a trifecta of local excellence. Not many national acts make room for Denver artists on big stages. ![]() Despite fights between fans, Snow Tha Product put on one of the most powerful Denver concerts of 2019.
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