Bonaroo experience: Three Six Mafia vs blue hair crowd

So attended one day of Bonaroo (free tix). Show up and some corporate girl band is “playing” the equivalence to contemporary Christian music, but with sexual and even satanic themes. It was super cheesy and choreographed, but was attempting to be edgy with taboo subject matter. They even not so subtly plugged bud light beer several times.

The crowd was mixed but was pretty heavy with young feminists walking around without bras on and dudes that have definitely tasted the peen. They were eating it up.

Girl power group wraps up and Three Six enter the stage. I grew up to “arse and Tittays”, but wasn’t fully aware of their catalog. Homeboys enter the stage calling for a mosh pit to the callousless crowd. EVERY song they sang had at minimum “bitch”, “suck my dick”, “ho”, and of course…the n-word.

Talk about a clash of culture??. I almost felt bad for the rappers because the crowds wasn’t feeling it. No singing. Very little dancing. They tried every way to hype the crowd. From “where the bitches at?” to “this next one is a big hit”. You could feel their frustration. One of the members was wearing a Hannibal lecter mask. He started saying “We got some hicks here tonight. Some mother frickin hicks.”

The next to the last song said the n-word repeatedly in the chorus. No one in the crowd was singing along even though the group had been trying all night to get them involved. The masked rapper shouted midsong “It’s okay white people. You can say it tonight!” I had to cover my mouth I was laughing so hard. I’m not going to lie…it was very entertaining??.

So amazing how much the culture of the youth has shifted in 20 years.