I could use this to promote my growing disdain for my homies Twiztid, but I won’t.

Here is the truth: some concerts sell well, some don’t. There are multiple factors.

1. Time of year (deep winter can affect turnout. Once we went to an awesome show in Rochester at The Armory, but it was negative degrees and a weeknight, like a Tuesday. I’m not counting, but it was an ICP Old Shit Tour and id be surprised if there were more than 300 attendees… actually the crowd got it’s thinnest during ICP at the end.)

2. Time of the week.

3. Location.

4. Venue reputation.

5. Money issues.

6. Work issues.

7. LIFE issues.

8. Illness.

9. Promotion or lack of it.

There’s a million reasons. I’m sure that Twizard have nights where it’s sold out, nearly sold out, average and pathetically sparse. It’s hard as fuck I would imagine, to solider through a small crowd at a little venue, but those themselves can be pretty unique and special.

Tech N9ne sold out Red Rocks a couple weeks back. Just a few years before, my homie said the Strange show in NC was dead, despite being super fun. He said most of those yokels came for Machinegun Kelley, then left when Mayday came up. And only a few dozen returned for Tech.

You win some, you lose some.

I just recently found out young wicked is 38 lmao. 

Bonesaw Wizardstick said

31.  He’s 2 years younger than Bonez, and Bonez just celebrated 33 a few weeks ago.  

Don’t ruin my fun lol

A.M.B. = warehouse employee rappers!

J:

Hey yo Bonez 

You never was Otis 

And you know dis

Bitch!

Now, go get the pallet jack. We have to put a few tons of AMB thongs in clearance.

Hypnotized Ninja said
Were they good shows though? Isn’t that ALL THAT MATTERS unless I become a promoter or artist I DGAF. It’s weird to see you guys debate and defend over this some shows get packed some don’t no big deal.

I’ve seen the following perform in front of LOW attendance crowds where you can count the heads Tech N9ne(beginning of career), Lil Wyte, Blaze, ABK, Boondox, Big Hoodoo, Brotha Lynch, Prozak…literally have NEVER seen these second tier acts(aside from Tech ) on the label pull a big crowd here in ATX.

Austin is different though underground shows have thin attendance here due to a lot of people just seeing shows in festival season and they sleep on the quality intimate shows at small venues. Only acts I’ve seen draw big crowds in Austin from this world is ICP, Twiztid, Hopsin, Tech, Yelawolf(we’ll see how packed Rittz is next month)  

That’s the key.  I saw Twiztid in Cleveland for the valentines day show in 2016.  It was 2 degrees outside not including wind chill, and they had a full out line-up.  It was Twiztid, Boondox, ROC, G-mo (before he was signed), Stevie Stone, MBK, and Insane E.  Also a really good duo called T.H.C. (The Heart of Cleveland) who are now broken up because one of them got 6 months less than a week after the show and the other one went solo.  And there were probably 200 people there, but every artist rocked the shit out of it anyway.

It wasn’t poor ticket sales, though.  It was because the venue emailed people and said that the show was cancelled. So only the people who didn’t check their email showed up.  It was cool, though.

Low turnout? That club in Orlando, The Back Booth, has a capacity of 150. Twiztid couldn’t sell that out??? R.I.P.!