Let’s Talk About The Millennium Tour

Once again, for company purposes and to try to stay employed, I was hired to do the Millennium Tour last month. I know you guys are thinking, “Can’t you at least afford this tour?” The answer is complicated, but I will blog about it. Anyway, I decided to pick up a shift at the last minute. I was stationed in the spot where you can see the whole concert. Now this type of luck was not luck, I feel, but long story short, I was meant to be there. Now I know you guys did not come here to hear about me working the event, so I am going to cut to the chase. When I went to preshift for work, I found out that each act had only 20 minutes on stage and that fans only had a five-minute intermission. After hearing this, I was shooketh to the tenth power. Now I was upset because I did not get to see Omarion for as long as I wanted to see him, but then again. I understood why they put a 20-minute limit on the acts. Let me explain, the promoters only booked the venue for a certain amount of time. Each act is supposed to be on stage for a limited amount of time. Some of these acts do not know how to get off the stage. Now there is a time limit to how long each act gets in stage. I remember one of the issues people had with the first Millennium tour was that some acts did not know when to get off the stage. One of those acts was the Ying Yang Twins. I felt like Chingy was not on stage long enough (and Mario), and then the Ying Yang twins (and Bobby V.) were on stage for too long. I know that black Twitter has made it a thing to say that we did not come to see you, Otis, but we did not see you, Otis!!! It saddens me to see how this tour has become a 20-minute talent show, but this is the same thing that happened almost 20 years ago, till this day. The acts today are known for being popular during the New Millennium (hence B2K being named B2K), but back in the day they were a tour called the Scream Tour. The Scream Tour was started by Jermaine Dupri’s father, Michael Mauldin. At the time, Bow Wow was the hottest act, and he was the one headlining (hence Bow Wow saying that he started all of this). It later became a tour that B2K and TUG acts( I will do a whole video about the history of the Scream Tour on YouTube). Well 20 years ago the Scream Tour turned into a R&B heartthrob tour but the tour fell apart because of a “scheduling conflict”. Now, years later, with the sale of a B2K reunion, promoters are making money off of nastoglia and Generation Z wanting to be around during this period. After B2K broke up again, the pandemic and the craziest Verzuz ever were. Now I heard that B2k had a reunion again at the last date of the Millennium Tour, but them going on tour, I don’t think is going to happen because we are about to hit another Great Depression. Now I know y’all did not want to hear about this history, but I feel like it has repeated itself all over again one and two, maybe there should be separate tours for the hip hop artists and the singers. The messed-up part is that some of the artists who are on the tour( Boosie, Rick Ross, and Plies). For some reason, the tour did not go over well with a lot of people. This has run its course, and each other wasted their time bickering and bribing. Now it is time for something better, something that would give these artists more than 20 minutes on stage. Trust me when I say that I believe in reviving people’s careers, but everybody does not everybody needs their career revived. Someone needs to go back to the drawing board a figure out how to execute this properly. This is wild to only see Omarion for 20 minutes and I am sure I am not the only that feels that way. Everybody knows that artist havr a hard time being respected by the industry and I do not like seeing artist disrespected. Yall deserve better but then again, your tour is selling out.