Review: At Rolling Loud, rap music isn’t about changing the world. It’s about surviving it.
From left: Sheck Wes, Smokepurpp, Lil Nas X, Cardi B, Young Thug, Lil Pump and Yung Baby Tate. By Chris Richards Chris Richards Pop music critic Email Bio Follow Pop music critic May 13 at 5:06 PM MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Rolling Loud is not Coachella. The air is five times thicker and 10 times heavier. It’s filled with designer fragrances, and puffs of cheap weed, and the conjoined ghosts of Woodstock and Altamont, and a Miami-Dade County police helicopter tracing halos over the festival grounds.
Accordingly, so much of the rap music blasting out of these area codes in recent years can be heard as a subconscious response to Miami’s fragility — the sound of young people doing everything in their power to shout down an extinction event.
Ninety minutes later, as traffic funneled out into the dark Florida night, a street preacher posted up outside the Dunkin’ Donuts at NW 199th Street and 27th Avenue, scolding passersby through his megaphone. He had raised a cardboard sign that read “HELL IS REAL.” But everybody here already knew that.
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