Atlanta vet Jeezy is currently headlining the Trap or Die 3 Tour in support of his 2016 album of the same name. He just landed in NYC over the weekend for two shows at Irving Plaza, Saturday (3/11) and Sunday (3/12). Opening all shows on this run are Lil Durk, who recently released the Love Songs for the Streets mixtape. YFN Lucci was supposed to be on the tour too, but he appears to have dropped off multiple shows. In his place at Irving Plaza on Saturday was rising Harlem rapper Dave East. We caught that show, and pictures are in the gallery above.
Earlier on in the tour, Jeezy hit Kansas City and The Kansas City Star reviewed that show:
He immediately teased some of “Trap or Die 3’s” most promising tracks. He opened with the album’s first single “Let Em Know,” a simmering, twitchy club banger that rises like a monsoon, and with the assistance of the Uptown’s bone-rattling sound system, cascaded onto the crowd like a Shaq slam dunk.
From there things stewed for a moment with tracks like “Goldmine,” the Lil Wayne assisted “Bout That” and the rap/sung Chris Brown collaboration “Pretty Diamonds,” perhaps the album’s best chance for a national hit. It was a brief respite before the evening steered from concert to celebration as Jeezy revisited the hits that made him a hip-hop heavyweight.
For the next 45 minutes he dribbled through the 2005-11 hits, to uproarious effect. Sauntering around the stage like a king returning to court, Jeezy shared a litany of hits from his classic album “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101” like “Bottom of the Map,” “Trap or Die,” “Go Crazy” and “Soul Survivor” and other singles from that era like “Dem Boyz,” “Way Too Gone,” and “Put On.”
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photos by Wei Shi