Illuminated stage screens show two vixens in lingerie clinging to bedsheets, an accurate visual aid for this part of the show. They post up in red love seats on opposite ends of the stage to pull out their signature babymakers from their repertoires. Brown even brings his rhythm and gangsta, calling on Tyga - who is releasing collaborative album with Brown, Fan of a Fan, later this month - and G-Unit as his lone guests.Īt halftime, the two singers break from their solo sets. On stage, Breezy escapes the judgment and finds himself alongside talented legends like Michael Jackson and James Brown in whispers among concertgoers. There was no talk of his standing with Drake (opening act Tyga let a line slip about how the rapper born Aubrey Graham “was never really my n-a”) or his on-and-off relationship with Karrueche. He leaned on dance sequences and nostalgia to hype the crowd, a formula that has worked since he serenaded fans with “Yo (Excuse Me Miss).” (Sadly, his first official single didn’t make the set list.) His 2014 X album topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 145,000 copies. Songz ran through a soundtrack appropriate for the Fifty Shades of Grey film, with after-dark tracks like “I Invented Sex” and “Love Faces” and a sprinkle of chest-pounding love songs like “Can’t Be Friends.” Still, he kept the levels turned up by bringing out guest after guest, from labelmate Ty Dolla $ign for “Dead Wrong,” Ne-Yo for “She Knows,” Fabolous for the thirst-quenching “Say Ahh” and a special appearance from rising New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap to perform his own hit “Trap Queen.” Despite going shirtless and baring washboard abs for a steamy performance of “Na Na,” Songz continues to make bank from having his cake too.įetty Wap Has Arrived: 8 Things To Know of Kanye West’s Latest Co-Signīrown kicked off his set with the Diplo-produced dance track “X,” singing of love lost as he crumped across the stage in a purple camo windbreaker, a Billionaire Boys Club fitted hiding ombre blue hair, and skinny jeans. 1 album, coming behind 2012’s Chapter V which sold 135,000. Last year, the suave singer made panties drop with his Trigga LP, which sold 105,000 copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Since his cornrow days, ladies have loved Songz. Despite the single-digit weather, tweens with sparkly belly rings and women in high heels and miniskirts were bumping and grinding to each note Songz crooned.
The sight of his cheek dimples was enough to send the ladies, who packed every corner of Barclays, into a shrieking frenzy.
In Kanye West and Jay Z‘s Watch the Throne tour fashion, Brown and Songz took turns on stage, but only after Songz opened the two-hour show after winning a coin toss.