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Concert recap: fakemink's chaotic crowd · Stories from Mustang News on KCPR

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  Speaker 1: You could feel the energy in the air. Ila Vista
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  Speaker 1: has fans and fashion demons alike eagerly await their sonic salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Fake Math, the underground sensation out of London, stopped by
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  Speaker 1: the Central Coast for one of his first headlining performances ever,
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  Speaker 1: a mark of his recent success, as he's skyrocketed to
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  Speaker 1: two and a half million monthly listeners on Spotify alone,
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  Speaker 1: though many concertgoers, like ucsb econ major John Gobriel, were
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  Speaker 1: unaware of who he was prior to booking the show.
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  Speaker 2: I did not know. I went because of my friend
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  Speaker 2: who she's really She's a big so me and your
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  Speaker 2: friends just got tickets to go because you want.
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  Speaker 1: Just once inside the Hub, an eight hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: person capacity food court turned concert hall fans who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make their way to the front of the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: We're in for a rude awakening. As Junior cow poly
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  Speaker 1: business major Annica Layton soon found out, it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of rowdy. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it was kind of a big enough
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  Speaker 3: room to the point where people could have spread out more,
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  Speaker 3: but they kind of were a little bit too much
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  Speaker 3: in the front, if that makes sense. Friend got elbowed
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  Speaker 3: in the face. I definitely got like, stepped on a
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  Speaker 3: lot and shoved a lot underground.
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  Speaker 1: Rap concerts are notorious for poor etiquette, with fans rushing
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  Speaker 1: the stage At the end of St. Two K sixteen's
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  Speaker 1: concert in San Francisco's Great American Music Hall earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the show, devotes practically begged Fake
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  Speaker 1: Mink to play Mecca with Echo two K and Meca Talk.
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  Speaker 4: But here's what he had to say about that.
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  Speaker 1: Before serenading fans with the song of their dreams.
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  Speaker 3: You must get the ship, but the daytime.
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  Speaker 1: Forty must news on k c PR. I'm Rosemary Cromwell.
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  Speaker 3: Kip, did you see