I was there last night. Not a fan of either, but my wife is a big JT fan and I don't dis-like either of them so I wasn't dragged along.
They put on a pretty good show, though.
A few random thoughts....
- Traffic was a nightmare. A TOTAL NIGHTMARE. We rode with friends who had a parking pass, otherwise we would've taken the LR. It took us 2 hrs to get from Ellicott City to the parking space. I don't know what the city was doing, but they failed miserably. No traffic directors, no cops, nothing. Even the parking workers didn't seem interested in doing their job. One booth open for the B/C lot. Thankfully its not like that for Ravens games.
- Stadium is a good venue for a concert of that size. Sound system was good, a little too much reverb but nothing to complain about. Thankfully we were on the club level so bars & bathrooms were not crowded.
- Crowd was AMPED. Jay-Z definitely got more crowd reaction.
- Jay-Z came out wearing a Baltimore Bullets hat which was kinda cool. It made me wish we had an NBA team.
- Timberlake singing the "cop lyrics" on 99 problems was great.
- Seven Nation Army chant before the encore and on the way out.
- It'll be interesting to see how long Jay-Z lasts. The other two rappers of his stature were killed young. Jay-Z is over 40, I wonder how long a guy can continue to rap about bitches, money and drugs without his age starting to become an issue and weaken his image.
