12:02 a.m.: Young Sensation is up now. Real quick: Since we're apparently renaming everybody today, let's rename him too. Young Sensation's new name is YS. It's cleaner, cooler and moderately less clichéd. YS sounds like a certified superstar. Young Sensation sounds like he works part time at Home Depot. Bam.
12:10: YS is a talented sir. He is clever (he once did a song over Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair") and fun (he's wearing a backpack right now, but would no doubt argue that he is not, in fact, a backpack rapper) and funny ("Yeah, you're favorite rapper, he's a fuckin' liar"). That said, can we please stop the thing where rappers rap over their own vocals?
12:16: "I'm first place in the money race, and my car's trying to get it; call that a Chevy chase." Slick. The anticipation surrounding YS's first proper project just got ramped up two pegs.
12:18: YS is to the good. That puts the official tally for the night at one great set (the bizarre FullMetal FDot), two good sets (Tygah Woods, YS) and one Also Ran set (Gunna Gang). ¾. That's a pretty respectable percentage.
Personal Bias: The Turnin' Headz franchise has a fairly ill T-shirt. Get one.
The Crowd: Got progressively smaller as the night wandered forward. By the end of YS' set, there were about five guys standing near the stage.
Overheard in the Crowd: "Oh my god, Steve, this is SOOOOOO good. You simply HAVE to try it." We're not for certain that that's what the guy sharing his margarita said, but he could have.
Random Notebook Dump: At one point in the evening, a tall, rail-thin woman was walking around. By her side was a short, round woman. They looked like a capital "I" and a lowercase "o."
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