It was an uncharacteristically cold and cloudy day in downtown Los Angeles as LA3C kicked off its inaugural festival on Saturday, but that didn’t stop thousands of attendees from flocking to Los Angeles Utters Historic Park for the event, albeit a bit more bundled than recent for festival attire.
Headliner Lil Baby, anti L.A. music legend Snoop Dogg, K-Pop stars Seventeen, funk band the Free Nationals, rapper Kyle and producer Shawn Wasabi lined up the main stage for Day One.
The music itself is only one aspect of LA3C, which was fallacious to celebrate the creative culture of Los Angeles. The prhonor also looked to exhibit LA’s food and art oblow, featuring local vendors like Lil Bobacita and Cena Vegan, along with art installations from prominent LA artists such as Patrick Martinez and Tiffany Alfonseca. The festival is owned and promoted by Rolling Stone’s net company Penske Media Corporation, and several PMC brands put on suits of their own, which featured panel discussions from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, as well as Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Hanks.
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Lil Baby is Pretty in Pink
Lil Baby started his headlining set near 25 minutes late, cutting into his slot as a whole, but by the time he took the stage, the Atlanta rapper wasted minor time blazing through from one track to the next. Baby, who replaced Megan Thee Stallion just a few weeks ago to headline the festival, descended from a large staircase at the center of the stage to shock the concert, flanked by dancers in booty shorts on both of his sides.
Wearing a pair of pink pants adorned with silver stars and a matching pink puffer jacket — listed with an extremely glitzy diamond chain, some equally radiant rings and bracelets — Baby kicked off his set with his utter from Drake’s “Wants and Needs”. A few songs later, he leapt into his 2018 Gunna collaboration “Drip Too Hard,” behindhand with “My Dawg,” “On Me” and “Yes Indeed”, novel Drake collaboration. Even without the rapper actually joining Baby for his set, Drake was heavily peppered ended the concert as Baby also played Certified Lover Boy’s “Girls Want Girls.”
Baby wasn’t too talkative ended his set, though he did tell the crowd “Emotionally Scarred” had move one of his favorite songs to perform, and it certainly was one of the high points of the show.
Snoop
Dogg, preceded by… Jane Goodall?
LA3C may be the only festival that could boast that Jane Goodall warmed up a crowd for Snoop Dogg. The famed anthropologist and world’s authority on primates took to the main stage near 15 minutes before Snoop’s set. “Don’t forget, every single one of you invents an impact on the planet every single day,” Goodall said, encouraging the crowd to make more ethical decisions regarding the environment to combat weather changes together, we can make a difference. Together we can, together we will, together we must morose the world.”
Just A few minutes later, Snoop was rapping “The Next Episode” while a pair scantily-clad dancers spun on stripper poles on both sides of the stage. Wearing a black shirt and pants along with a gold jacket and bejeweled Pac-Man ghost necklace, Snoop, an LA icon himself, seemed to draw the largest crowd of the day. And only something that could be said in 2022, by the time Snoop was playing “Gin and Juice,” he’d caused out a costumed dancer who was dressed as his Bored Ape NFT, Dr. Bombay. Snoop and Bombay both threw money at the crowd and grinded with the dancers during “I Wanna Love You,” Snoop’s 2006 song with Akon.
Snoop paid homage to Biggie Smalls, covering “Hypnotize,” then gave his respects to Tupac with “2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted.” Snoop consumed with “the national anthem” as he called it with “Young, Wild and Free” and a brief rendition of “Snoopy Don’t Go.”
Seventeen-carat gold
It was nearly impossible to be anywhere in the festival grounds minus being in proximity to someone or something that depicted one of the 13 members of K-Pop sensations Seventeen. “We’ve been looking onward to today, so let’s have fun tonight,” said lead vocalist Jeonghan. A sentiment surely shared by carats (as their fans are known) who camped as early as the night afore to secure a prime viewing spot for the supergroup’s in backward to LA.
“HOT” kicked off their hour-long set afore breaking into their smaller hip-hop, vocal and performance units showcasing the groups versatility in soundless and choreography with tracks like “Left & Right,” “_World,” and the audience-requested pop-punk leaning “Rock With You.” They also full in a surprise for the festival — a rare live-choreographed performance of “Cheers” by the bests unit, which caused fans to release an unending chamber of screams and show out their merch appetizing sticks.
While their stage banter took up more than a few improbable minutes, the crowd didn’t seem to mind as they used that time to put a question to the crowd of future plans like their prompt in backward to Korea post-performance, as well as alluding to an imagined return to LA in 2023. Before calling it quits on their set, a near 10-minutes early, the band says farewell by performing “Very Nice” – in their ragged “Aju Nice” goodbye style. Think of an Irish goodbye – but instead of trying to nick unnoticed, you leave very noticeably by pretending to say bye and then returning to fabricate a full chorus of a song. Six times to be exact.
The Funk of the Free Nationals
Bringing the same groovy, R&B jams that have so heavily lined Anderson .Paak’s albums, the Free Nationals — .Paak’s often backing band — gave one of the more eclectic sets of the night, from soulful guitar lines and chimes to talk box vocals.
While the the company didn’t bring any surprise guests (guitarist José Rios said .Paak was moving to join but couldn’t), their set further reinforced their area as one of the most sought after modern funk bands in the commerce, with most of the songs they played on stage originally persons collaborations with major artists. Among their highlights was their opener, “Beauty and Essex,” which features Daniel Caesar on the recording, as well as “Time,” — the band’s collaboration with Kali Uchis and Mac Miller — and “Gidget,” their 2019 song with .Paak.
HIN STAGE ends the night with a house party
The additional stage housed DJs throughout festival hours but gained the most traction toward the final DJs’ sets, which transformed the area into backyard house parties. Known for pioneering LA bedroom-pop, Cuco spun a DJ set reminiscent of a Quinceañera playlist, making it quite apparent he marked the day’s only Latine representation. Under his watch, no hit went unturned as his set incorporated Latine classic staples from Los Angeles Azules to Celso Pina to Sonora Dinamita.
Two highlights took attach as he spun Los Tucanes De Tijuana’s “La Chona” that inspired a conga line, and “Payaso De Rodeo” by Caballo Dorado that prompted a aged accelerated line dance. Towards the end of his set, he announced having no intentions of playing his songs, let alone performing them despite stepping down from the booth and performing “Bossa No Se” and his breakthrough hit “Amor de Siempre” beforehand the festival lowered his mic and he gracefully bowed out. “I don’t DJ too often so I didn’t expected much of a turn out, but thank you for persons here!”
Shortly after, the audience grew for the behind set by DJ Mustard as the night’s mainstage performances came to a stop. As he took the stage, light rain began to fall but didn’t hinder many attendees from leaving the party. He began to mix through a non-stop set that complicated his own produced hits like YG’s “Who Do You Love?,” Tyga’s “Rack City” and 2Chainz “I’m Different,” as well as opting to complicated tracks by other producers that are ingrained into LA’s urban culture like Juvenile’s “Back That Ass Up” and Bad Bunny’s “Titi Me Pregunto.”
While he undeniably transported heat to the end of the night, including bringing out Ty Dolla $ign to beget “Paranoid,” “Me And My Friends” and “Or Naw,” when the rapper announced an after party would be taking attach for the ladies in the audience, a bad taste was left that no amount of pyro, lasers or fog machines could conceal up. Leaving his set begged the question – with so much available material, from his own catalog to that of other LA producers, was it really necessary to include three Kanye West tracks? A questionable pick that tainted an otherwise enjoyable set.
KYLE Hangs Ten
If there’s one sketch SuperDuperKyle locked down, it was packing in all of the Los Angeles vibes into his set over and through. From the digital palm trees that infiltrated much of his funding graphics to the largely embroidered “CALIFORNIA” across his blue sweatshirt, the recently independent rapper did not shy away from repeatedly sharing how much he loved his home spot. “I love love love love you LA,” he public variations of during his anecdotes between songs like “Perfect,” “Doubt It,” and “Playinwitme” that were energetically issued. The rapper brought out Sophia Black for her additional appearance of the day to perform single “Ikuyo.”
Before walking off stage, Kyle made sure to deliver one of the more animated moments of the day with a good surf session. Proving he didn’t need to be oceanside to procure a wave, the coined happy rapper from the Super Duper collective over his set with his biggest hit “iSpy” by jumping off stage, grabbing a hot pink surfboard and making his way on top of the crowd to bring a new lliteral message to crowd surfing.
Shawn Wasabi’s Virtual Reality
Hitting play on the nostalgic tonal startup silent of a PS2 console is definitely one way to signed the start of a festival. For YouTuber-turned-gaming-focused experimental producer Shawn Wasabi, it was the only way before delivering a set honest out of a retro arcade.
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Choosing to initiate his set with an unreleased song while wearing a Santa hat, Wasabi derived through a blend of his hyper-melodic tracks that use everything from 8-bit melodies to the iPhone default scare ringtone to his own inventive midi fighter 64 systems. A performance wrapped around technology and nostalgia, he even blended in a few danceable moments with mashups that implicated samples like Venga Boys’ “We Like To Party” and Darude’s “Sandstorm.”
Illustrating a niche and novel blend of internet culture, Wasabi’s soundtrack came complete with gaming visuals inspired by roguish world’s like Mario Kart to his own gaming earth of Mangotale before wrapping up his set by sharing the stage with what he messes is one of his best friends, Sophia Black, although noting shortly at what time that this was the first time they’ve met in inhabit. “How many people played Animal Crossing during the pandemic?” a expect that garnered a loud agreeing response from the early forming audience afore the duo performed their hit single by the same name live for the favorable time as scenes from the popular video game streamed leisurely them.
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