Lupe Fiasco celebrated getting nominated for 3 GRAMMY'S last night by playing to a sold out, packed house of over 1,100 screaming fans at Philly's Trocadero!
Before the man of the hour arrived, DJ Mike Nice commandeered the turntables and the hype reps from Power 99 threw out free t-shirts to get everyone in a party mood.
But the crowd wanted Lupe, and no amount of free swag distracted them from this simple fact.
Finally Lupe took the stage and warmed up with a few smoking tracks. The ladies went nuts when he took off his jacket to reveal a little skin and a lot of boxer shorts.
He took a few moments to look back over some of his acclaims - a rap album that debuted at number 1, selling 86,000 copies the first week, and "my most proudest achievement - the cover of GQ."
And of course, "3 Grammy nominations - that's the TRIFECTA! Including one for that little skateboard song that radio stations wouldn't play cuz it didn't fit they format...If you see a little kid ridin his skateboard around, he don't wanna shoot nobody - he's just gettin his Lupe on!"
"I just wanna thank y'all for this year. I wanna thank each and every one of y'all that went out and bought my album."
Here's the SET LIST that DJ Simon gave me:
- Intro (album)
- Encore - Instrumental (Jay-Z)
- Twilight Zone (mixtape)
- Conflict Diamonds (mixtape)
- Touch the Sky (Kanye West)
- Failure (mixtape)
- Switch (mixtape)
- Feel Good (mixtape)
- Instrumental (album)
- Tilted (UK release)
- Sunshine (album)
- American Terrorist (album)
- He Say She Say (album)
- Kick Push (album)
- The Cool (album)
- Hurt Me Soul (album)
- Daydreamin (album)
- Real (album)
This show was tight, right?
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