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Photos and story by Chase Reavis

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Drenched in sweat from the moment he stepped onstage, G-Eazy performed a sold-out concert last weekend at the Walmart AMP in Rogers.

 

“Are you ready for a legendary night tonight?” G-Eazy asked the crowd Aug. 11 after finishing his hit song “Pray For Me,” surrounded by crosses and flashing lights.

 

Before G-Eazy performed, six openers got the crowd excited and ready for his set. P-Lo, YBN Nahmir, Murda Beatz, Ty Dolla $ign and Lil Uzi Vert performed in short intervals before G-Eazy’s set, which lasted about an hour and a half.

 

Ty Dolla $ign said Fayetteville was “the most turnt city on the whole tour.”

 

G-Eazy’s concert was the first rap headline of this season for the Walmart AMP. Last season, Khalid and Travis Scott took to the stage, said Jennifer Wilson, public relations director for the Walmart AMP.

 

Because Northwest Arkansas residents have unique tastes in music, Wilson thinks it is important to bring a variety of performers to the Walmart AMP so everyone’s tastes are represented in each season’s lineup, she said.

 

“This year the season really has included a little bit of everything – from rock and pop to country and rap – and people have been loving it,” Wilson said. “Some of our biggest selling concerts this season illustrate just how varied the region has become in its tastes: Dave Matthews Band, Chris Stapleton, Kesha and Macklemore, Kenny Chesney, Pentatonix and G-Eazy.”

 

Lil Uzi Vert was a crowd favorite. Several of the concert-goers left after his act before G-Eazy went onstage. Even with his 7.5 million followers on Instagram, nearly a million more than G-Eazy’s, he still alluded to the crowd as being overwhelming.

 

“This is a lot of people for me to deal with,” Lil Uzi Vert said before diving into his performance of “Bad and Boujee” — a song he recorded with Migos. The song peaked at No. 6 on Billboard’s The Hot 100 chart.

 

UA junior Canon Poore attended the concert, and although he enjoyed both G-Eazy and Lil Uzi Vert, he thinks that Lil Uzi Vert was the better performer, he said.

 

“He was just so incredible at feeding off the crowd energy,” Poore said. “His stage presence was electric and such a fun thing to experience in person.”

 

Walmart AMP officials will announce next season’s show lineup, which lasts April through October 2019, on the website beginning this fall.

 

Tickets are available to purchase on the Walmart AMP website for the following 2018 shows:

 

Aug. 26 – Charlie Puth and Hailee Steinfeld, tickets starting at $32

Sept. 2 – Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, tickets starting at $55.50

Sept. 22 – Alan Jackson, tickets starting at $46.75

Sept. 26 – 5 Seconds of Summer, tickets starting at $29.50

Sept. 27 – NEEDTOBREATHE, tickets starting at $30

Sept. 28 – Lynyrd Skynyrd, tickets starting at $39.50

Oct. 3 – ODESZA, tickets starting at $26

Oct. 13 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Concert, tickets starting at $22

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