- Drake in the Ziggo Dome
- © Ben Houdijk
After two times at the last moment to oppose it and the planned four shows eventually to have spread over two months, kicks Drake Saturday night finally his European tour. In Amsterdam, if you are aware of that. He shakes all the criticisms of himself and shows why he records continues to break.
It is halfway through the set when everything comes together and it becomes clear why Drake is so immensely popular. Just after he left the venue to the Meek Mill diss has to chant it – “Is this a world tour, or your girls tour?” – changes the Ziggo Dome in a big party where everyone was dancing on 'Work' and 'Too Good'. The best is that men are Rihanna’s lyrics to sing along and women just as hard the hard dissteksten meeschreeuwen. The are the apparent contradictions and bridging thereof where Drake excels.
That contradictions are everywhere: between the switching between singing and rapping. Between the typical hip-hop braggadocio and for Drake so characteristic of uncertainty and self-pity. Between rock-hard moshpits and smooth dancing couples. They form the red thread through the entire set. Sure, when he comes up he puts himself right down as the big man. With a lot of fireworks and flame-throwers he opens with ‘Still Here’ and ‘Started From the Bottom’: the tracks in which he has his own majesty shall appoint. Then comes a block of uncertainty, with 'Keep the Family Close as the highlight. Then a block party with ‘Hold on’, which is Rihanna-collaborations and finally the hard hip-hop.
- © Ben Houdijk
The whole show confirms Drake’s status of superstar. In fact, that is already clear before you get to the Ziggo Dome together. All in the row is the nervous tension that at such concerts to hear. Guests who are too young for the bar to get their own drink, girls scream to the rumor that Jonna Fraser in the row. A group outside of Amsterdam is so focused on the entrance that it took them a half hour notice that they are for the Arena.
there’s Another thing that you will notice where Drake now: the show itself. Apparently he found the production so important that he made the four shows in the Netherlands two times resistance. With two hundred men was the show put together. Not cheap, and that delay, not at all. It results in a huge LED screen that the rear wall of the frame, moving stage elements, a constant stream of fireworks and flame-throwers, a huge sun in the middle of the room is blown up. And then hang it above the hall also have a few hundred bulbs that are individually up and down, so that they patterns can form. If you doubted that hip hop nowadays is pop, it is with this lavish decoration quite clear.
- © Ben Houdijk
There are more things that confirm that Drake, even more than the largest hiphopper, especially should be seen as a big pop star. More than a lot of other rappers go he detailed the interaction with the audience. He explains to the show’s silent, speaks to fans personally: “You there on the balcony with the black shirt, I’ll see you. Thanks that you are there, man.” He is quite a slijmbal, but that is getting away with it. And as the Stones of a half-band in the wings to have as a back-up, so has Drake on a tape with your own vocals along. He leans there is seldom full and it is nowhere bothersome. But it remains difficult or something like that well laziness is or professional.
Eventually happens tonight exactly what you hope: this first Ziggo-whew confirms the status of Drake. At this moment there is no one who so easily switches between singing and rap, between over-emotional and hard, grinding on a Saturday night to sweaty pits build. And there is no one in over an hour and a half as much as recent hits can be heard. Enough reason to look forward to the shows at the end of February and end of march yet to come, especially since it seems that his next mixtape from is and Drake more than the one new track that he tonight did can be heard. For he the stage, and go ride Drake there for the first time tonight, a morality: ‘take a Look around you how many people of diverse origins here a good evening have had. That is ultimately the most important.’ Sugary and in this show in a hurry what out of place, but oh well, the real greats can do that.
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