Practically in falsetto for his entire set, he tore through fan favorites“ With Me,”“ Hallucinations,” and“ The Line.” In addition to his own catalogue, he truly switched it up for the fans by covering Michael Jackson’ s“ Billie Jean” and Aaliyah’ s“ One in a Million.” This made me realize two things: OVO is definitely having séances with MJ, and loving Aaliyah must be a pre-requisite to be signed by Drake. In both covers, dvsn showed out, outdoing any covers you’ ve ever heard of either song, be it The Weeknd or Frank Ocean. And closing out with an epic showcase of“ The Line” was the perfect end for dvsn’ s set. He began the song by playing the piano and singing amidst a cloud of smoke; it was so dope. Like whenever I picture an R & B nigga in my head, I will forever see that visual. He gave his heart and soul to the performance of his final song and bowed out to an uproar that was only beat out by Drake’ s. While Roy Woods brought youth to the tour, dvsn brought the heart and soul to Summer Sixteen, and it was one of the best sets of the entire night.
The next wait required a lot of patience. However, it wasn’ t a totally quiet wait for the next entertainer to take the stage. Dj T-Jizzle came to show the crowd some love, albeit everyone probably assumed that it was just Future’ s DJ and his set was about to start. DJ T-Jizzle brought hella energy to the stage and you could tell that he was hungry. He got the arena on its feet and made the whole place shake for almost about 15 minutes straight. And then he left the stage as sporadically as he had appeared. Confusion hit Phillips Arena as the lights turned back on, and we waited for Future to come out. The crowd didn’ t have a clue what was about to happen.“ LOOKING!”“ Summer Sixteen,” the song that this tour is named after literally lit up the stadium. Drake rises on a square pedestal until he’ s at stage level, and then everyone’ s“ LOOKING FOR REVEEEEEEEENGE!” Although I had been expecting Future to perform first, I had no problem with Drizzy hitting the stage in the meantime. Drake owned his time slot, proving why he is the # 1 artist in music right now. His stage constantly changed changed, with platforms rising and falling. At one point, I thought he was going to perform Views in its entirety because he went from“ Keep the Family Close”( although him just vibing to the beat was enough of a performance to get everybody lit) to“ Feel No Ways,” which was the first sign that Drake was actually going to give us an A1 vocal performance tonight. Then he took us back to the Take Care era with“ Headlines,” and my middle school memories were met with new college memories as I had a total fan boy revelation. Add“ HYFR,” Trophies,” and“ 0 to 100” to that combination and I’ m high off life. By the time he proclaimed“ I should prolly sign to Hit Boy, cause I got all the hits boy!” I knew that I was in the presence of a true legend in the making. Say what you want about Drake’ s career, but he will never be forgotten because of the vast amount of timeless music that has spawned from his work from less than a decade. Just in case you needed proof on the statement I just made, he performed a medley that was based around a chopped sample of“ I should prolly sign to Hit Boy, cause I got all the hits boy!” He RUSHED through 13 of his hits:“ 6 God,”“ Worst Behavior,”“ We Made It,”“ Blessings,”“ All Me,”“ No Lie,”“ Versace,”“ Pop That,”“ Over,”“ I’ m On One,”“ Up All Night,” and“ Crew Love.” Now you can surely think of a handful of his hits that could have been added to that medley, so imagine how long he really could have held that high energy medley for. Drake has so much music, that simply not knowing what song he would pull out next made the concert a blast. He had been on the stage for a while now, but he showed no signs of slowing down. Going back to popular cuts from Views, he and the DJ battled between his“ songs for the women” and“ songs for the club”; as a result, we got to hear“ With You” and“ Child’ s Play” back to back. The dopest stage manipulation that I had