It’s hard to be let down by a show with so much action (lasers and fog machines, strobe lights and a story-high video screen playing animations accompanying the Rae Sremmurd bangers) but it was a let-down.
The duo put a herculean effort into on-stage antics and fan interaction - both jumping into the crowd multiple times, Slim turning the microphone over to an audience member to freestyle, Swae doing the Batusi, playing air guitar and smashing pineapples, both brothers often lavishing praise on an fiery young audience that Swae called “one of the littest crowds in North America.” The X Gamers were unfazed, though, happy to dance and sing along to a set list packed with the Atlanta-based siblings’ string of hits as fans know them, following word-for-word as Rae Sremmurd opened with a party-starting run of “No Type,” “No Flex Zone,” “Perplexing Pegasus” and “Come Get Her.” As on those two songs, the duo leaned heavily on recorded tracks spun by D_JaySremm for most of the set, singing and rapping in short bursts over the recorded versions.
