"Hypnotized" Tour Disappoints
by NADIA PFLAUM
A helpful reader called in today to report that the “Hypnotized Tour” at Kemper Arena Sunday night was a disappointing bust.
Promotional fliers listed the artists that were supposed to perform: Plies, Rick Ross, Lil Boosie, Juvenile, Pretty Ricky, Yo Gotti, Pop It Boyz, Shay and Mon-E-G. Tickets were $50. KPRS, the station that plays Plies’ song “Hypnotized” roughly every fifteen seconds, was listed as a sponsor.
“If you’d have gone to malls and places where black people shop, you would have seen it was a frenzy yesterday,” our caller says. “People getting new outfits and stuff. Plies, he’s like a big deal. He shot a video in the streets of KC with Rick Ross, you know what I’m saying. So it was a nice crowd, everyone was really amped up for this concert.”
But unfortunately, more than half of the artists listed on the bill didn’t perform.
“Rick Ross showed up and did a real short set,” says our caller. “He went on first, which is really odd for an artist of his stature. Then, Pleasure P from Pretty Ricky did a long set. Really long. You would have thought he was the headliner. The Pop It Boyz didn’t show. Juvenile didn’t show. There were these long spaces of nothing between acts, no one announcing, ‘Next up is so-and-so,’ you know, there was no direction whatsoever as far as where it was going. There was no warning about who wasn’t there, and no apologies for the acts that didn’t show up. It was just a scruffy talent show. Lots of people are at my house right now, just regular people who went to the show, and they pissed.”
A representative at KPRS says that she did receive one complaint today about the concert no-shows.
Our caller says he was also surprised, at the end of the show, at the amount of police in the Kemper parking lot after the show. “I thought I was gonna see a tank or something. They were deep.”
Captain Rich Lockhart of the Kansas City Police Department says that the amount of officers at the Kemper last night was normal. “Traffic is typically very difficult down there,” he says. “With all those lots out and about, it creates a lot of traffic control points, so we have a lot of officers out there directing traffic.”
Our caller reported that the police held large cannisters of pepper spray and were using it to break up disturbances. “I was downtown when Hannah Montana let out of the Sprint Arena, they didn’t shut stuff down. They didn’t do none of that. I guess they figure white people ain’t gonna start shooting.”
Got stories of woe from the “Hypnotized” tour? Leave them in the comments.
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