The Daily Campus

Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Focus

Media Credit: Adam Bickford Redman gets the crowd pumped at this year's Spring Weekend concert in Gampel Pavilion Saturday. Redman performed alongside Method Man to open the concert, and was followed by headliners T-Pain and Flo Rida.

Tensions were running high in Gampel Pavilion Saturday night at the annual SUBOG Spring Concert as the show was delayed nearly two hours due to a generator failure, with many students chanting "refund" and booing stage crew members. But the show went on and turned out to be well worth the wait. Despite the long delay, the artists - legendary hip-hop duo Method Man and Redman, followed by Flo Rida and T-Pain - were packed with energy and did not miss a step.

"Our generator that we ordered for the show failed," said SUBOG concert chair Beth Cheney. "It was a fluke and it's never happened before. University electricians saved the day. They brought over their emergency generator and got it running."

Method Man (sporting his best Baron Davis beard) and Redman took the stage at 9:45 p.m. in front of a nearly full house, performing classics and favorites from their storied careers. Their set, which lasted about an hour, was packed with great songs like Redman's "Let's Get Dirty" and "Da Goodness," Wu-Tang's "Method Man" and an Ol' Dirty Bastard tribute which included "Shimmy Shimmy Ya."

"The Wu-Tang Clan has been doing music for 15 years," said Method Man onstage before performing the "36 Chambers" classic, "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F--- Wit."

"The Wu-Tang Clan is the best group ever," Method Man continued. "And the most important thing to know about the Wu-Tang Clan is that the Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to f--- with!"

Other notable moments included Red and Meth what appeared to be - and smelled like - a blunt and then tossing it to concert goers on the floor; announcements that a follow-up to their 1999 album "Blackout!" would be coming this summer and that "How High 2" is in the works; and Method Man's stage diving (which happened a few times, including the end of their set when crew members were trying to get him off the stage).

T-Pain, accompanied by fellow Nappy Boy Entertainment artists J Lyriq and Tay Dizm, finally went on at about 11:30 p.m., the original projected end time for the show, and performed until 12:50 a.m. The 22-year old Grammy winner covered all his singles and songs he's featured on in the lengthy set, and got what was left of the audience on their feet and singing along.

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