Lauryn Hill was one in every of six artists Drake tapped to share the stage with him on the primary of his three nights headlining London’s Wi-fi Competition this weekend.
The OVO rapper set an R&B theme for night time one of many live performance sequence, which noticed him cross the mic to singers equivalent to Mario, Bobby Valentino, Bryson Tiller, and Giveon to churn out their crowd-pleasing singles. Label signee PARTYNEXTDOOR additionally bought in on the motion, with the duo performing a spread of tracks from “Come and See Me” to “Moth Balls,” “Any individual Love You” and “Spider-Man Superman” collectively.
The shock spotlight of the night time was Drake bringing out Lauryn Hill, whose efficiency of “Ex-Issue” transitioned into Drake rapping his 2018 hit single “Good For What,” which samples the one from Hill’s 1998 Grammy Award-winning album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, for his finale.
Movies from the pageant present a energetic, engaged crowd, with one fan remarking that witnessing the mashup was “Some of the unbelievable issues I’ve ever seen dwell,” including, “This was a fully insane second to see dwell within the flesh.” Social media character BenDaDonnn can be heard visibly shocked by Hill’s presence in a video streamed Stay from Adin Ross’s Kick stream.
The response is a change from Hill’s displaying at Essence Competition final weekend, the place she was reported to have carried out in entrance of a near-empty stadium on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on account of logistical points which pushed the singer’s set time again to roughly 3 a.m. Essence assumed accountability for the technical points that led to the delay, writing in a publish on Instagram, “She arrived on schedule, stepped on that stage, and delivered the sort of efficiency solely a legend can. The delay? Not hers. We are going to take that.”
Drake, recent off of the discharge of his newest single “What Did I miss?,” which addresses his 2024 beef with Kendrick Lamar and different fellow rappers, will take to the Wi-fi Stage once more Saturday and Sunday nights for the twentieth anniversary of the pageant whose stage has been graced by the likes of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z and Bruno Mars over time. This marks Drake’s fourth time performing on the pageant, having appeared beforehand in 2012, 2015 and 2021.