a week in review: Drake Concert at the South Street Seaport

I'm sure by now you all have heard about and seen the melee that was called a "Drake Concert." I was super excited for this day - I have been waiting for the June 15th for three reasons: Thank Me Later, iPhone pre-order, and the Drake concert. I, unlike many others, patiently waited for the release of Drake's highly anticipated debut album. I refused to listen or download any of the leaks until June 15th when I could buy it in stores. Waiting for the album to drop was a lot harder than you can imagine - all the radio stations were playing leaks, every blog had download links, and all over twitter were the new "epic" Drake lines and verses. It was quite difficult. Anyways, back to June 15th, I got off of work and me and a co-worker rushed over to the South Street Seaport in Manhattan. It was insane how many people were there at that point. We somehow made our way to the middle of the crowd where we had a decent view - at this point I was still so siked!

30 minutes went by. 1 hour went by. An hour and a half went by. No Drake. And after the concert promoters tried to (unsuccessfully) calm  the crowd - people were getting impatient. I remember hearing the guy over the PA System saying "this isn't working" and I laughed - because I thought it was funny how someone with so much "authority" was feeling so helpless. It was funny to me! So time goes by and no announcements are being made - but they begin to take the set down. At this point people start cursing and throwing things (not that they weren't before) but it got pretty crazy.

There were two girls - standing right next to us who started fighting which began an all out brawl in the crowd and sent people running everywhere. This was like something from a movie! This was definitely my signal that we just shouldn't be there - so we bolted out. Or at least attempted to - it was so many people that it was hard to move through the crowd. 25,000 people when they were expecting 10,000 - crazy right?

Thank god we left when we did - as we turned around to look back where we came from - chairs, flower pots, glass bottles, plates - basically anything anyone could find was being thrown from a balcony down into the crowd and from the crowd up to the people on the balcony. Pure madness. I had never seen anything like it.

So this story didn't have a good ending - no Drake concert and by the time I got home (which took me a bit since I left my keys at the office) the music stores were closed - so no Drake CD either. The only good thing or thing that was pretty cool was that I made NY's Fox News! Out of 8 million people in a city - I found a way on TV - just strange! It was funny to see myself on TV and even funnier when I walked into work the next day and all my co-workers swarmed my desk asking if I was okay and that they had seen me on TV. It was comical. Any-who - Drake, no more free concerts okay? I'd much rather pay to see you than risk losing my life to save a few bucks. Just not worth it.

And if you don't have the Drake cd yet, go BUY it!