Vince Staples speaking on festivals and how some artists don’t know how to perform: “Are you making a show to entertain people or are you making a show to boost your ego?” He says he learned how to create a better show from Chance the Rapper while they were both opening up for Mac Miller: “You have to create a show that’s for people that are passing by…The way he incorporated dancing, Lauryn Hill, and intertwining things that didn’t have much to do with him [since he was still relatively unknown at the time] but the fans understood it and he made sure he was entertaining, by the time he got to the bigger stages he was a proven performer.” Vince also mentioned that part of the problem is that sometimes artists with 1 or 2 hits will blow up without a catalog: “Learning how to tour, you have to have bodies of work…You don’t even have a full set with these 2 min singles…we need more full length projects.” I think Vince is absolutely right, artists need to hone their craft and improve their live performances through practice so they’re ready for the big stages when they get there

JID wore a Mac Miller shirt yesterday at Lollapalooza where he performed in front of 70,000 people. The two became friends the year of Mac’s passing, with Mac helping with post production “on almost every song” on DiCaprio 2. JID has writing credits on ‘Self Care,’ and does the ad-libs (fun fact: Mac Miller has a cameo on JID’s ‘Sistanem’) JID says Mac was the one to convince him to do the collab with Imagine Dragons called ‘Enemy’ which now has over a billion streams and is JID’s biggest song. JID and Mac were supposed to go on tour together before Mac’s tragic passing in 2018. One thing’s for certain, JID is carrying on Mac’s spirit to this day 🕊️