Lupe Fiasco
Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre
Sept. 23, 2011
But if you attended his stop in Charlotte for the Generation Laser Tour at Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre on Friday night, you’d have never known of his ambivalence.
Regardless of how he may have initially felt about Lasers, he performed songs from it and a few (like “Kick, Push” and “Go Go Gadget Flow”) from his previous works with a passion that bled into the audience.
Of course, he stayed true to his political views, even in his stage performance — during “The Show Goes On,” he waved the Palestinian flag. He also asked the audience for a moment of silence to honor Troy Davis, who was put to death on Sept. 21 despite doubts of his guilt.
When one guy in the crowd screamed out “Sign my shirt, Lupe!” during the silence, the performer agreed to do so. Classy, right? Well, he flashed the shirt for all to read. He’d scribbled, “It’s called a moment of silence.” I would have expected nothing less.
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