The BasedGod’s absence on this stop of the tour was definitely noticeable, but the lack of an emcee wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Volpe’s attention was split between the turntable and his laptop throughout the night, with very little interaction with the small, but very diverse (girl in mini-dress arm-in-arm with dude in a Converge t-shirt) crowd of about 200 people. Dual projection screens teased the prospect of cool visuals to augment the set, but nothing more exciting than a changing color palette around the CLAMS CASINO XXXII tour logo was ever delivered.
The man behind the sound that defined much of A$AP Rocky, Vince Staples, Mac Miller, and Lil B’s careers looked like he could be the little brother I never had. Shaved head, groomed beard, long-sleeves and jeans he was nondescript in every way.
The 29-year-old producer came out, at around 12:45am, looking like he just walked in off the street.