5 years ago, Jay-Z released his 9th studio album Kingdom Come which was considered a "comeback" since he "retired" back in '03 with The Black Album. Although fans have their own mixed reviews of whether Kingdom Come was a good release or not, it sold 680,000 copies in its first week, which made it Jay-Z's highest selling album within a one-week period and also went platinum, but you already knew that. Kingdom Come housed great singles such as "Lost Ones" which featured Chrisette Michelle while "30 Something" & "Kingdom Come" reminded us that "the superman is alive".
But everyone knows this is the best track off the album.
Its also the anniversary of Kris Kasanova's first project The Long Way Home. I remember the first time Kris was on DWNDRadio and I heard his track "Mona" & instantly was interested in his music. Even though his album =War Paint= recently dropped, you should check out The Long Way Home also. Download The Long Way Home asap, & if you need a reason to, watch the video for "Mona" at the bottom.

To start off, when I got there I visited all the stands & there were a lot of cool custom sneakers out. Everyone with a stand was really talented.

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The opening acts were dope so shout out to Siya, Bizz E Blaze, & Blake Carrington. As expected, the crowd loved the homie Kris Kasanova's performance. He performed his stand out joints off of his album War Paint. Phil Ade (whose featured on War Paint) also had a great performance. Nyemiah Supreme did her thing & got the crowd extra hype when she brought out Jim Jones to perform "Everybody Jones".

Between all the performances Dave Jeff & Cory Townes did an amazing job of interacting with the crowd & keeping everyone hype (& shoutout to the homie Cory for the 2 DWND shoutouts on stage last night.)

Out of nowhere Waka Flocka came on the stage & got everyone EXTRA hype when he performed songs such as "Round of Applause", "Grove Street Party" & "Hard in the Paint". Check the footage below.

After all the "madness" ended, Stalley hit the stage & performed a couple songs .

Soon enough, the beginning to "The Heart Pt. 2" started playing & the crowd went crazy for headliner Kendrick Lamar. Theres not much to say besides the fact that this was Kendrick's 4th headliner in NYC within a year & the shows just get better and better. He also brought out A$AP Rocky to perform "A.D.H.D" (which oddly enough would be a dope remix, but i digress) & the rest of the A$AP crew to end the show with "Michael Jordan" which was insane.