# Snoop Dogg's "Puff Puff Pass 2" Tour in Milwaukee ```yaml title: Snoop Dogg's "Puff Puff Pass 2" Tour in Milwaukee published_date: 2016-12-23 00:00 tags: music ``` Yesterday came like any other day, but it went out into the pages of history something out of legend. At a moments notice, I found myself stumbled upon an opportunity to attend the PuffPuffPass2 tour with two fantastic people Nicole Parker and Kerry Gregory. What was slated as a Snoop Dogg concert turned out being just that, with the added bonus of seeing every prominent living legend that produced music out of the Midwest during the Golden Age decade of Rap/Hip-Hop, the 90's. The only group missing to that perfect picture for the time of which this tour represented was Do or Die. Speaking purely on a venue level; Riverside blows the Rave out of the water. Hands down. It's hard to even compare the two venues. "This is way more chill than the Rave!" said a guy in the Men's restroom by the Lower Bar. The local opening acts did a fantastic job at hyping the crowd, who were already on fire by the time Warren G took to the stage. One of the most enjoyable moments of any live show is when the artist lets the crowd finish a line of a verse and there was nothing short of pure magic in the air when Warren G let the crowd sing along to "Regulators" and "This DJ". Moments like this were in excess on this fantastic evening. The homage the artists gave to Nate Dogg was very sobering. You can tell without a doubt that losing Nate still effects Warren G. He seemed very humble on stage. He put on a great show. Then out of nowhere Twista takes the stage and opens up with "Adrenaline Rush" and for a moment everyone in the room felt like they were on the streets of Chicago that Twista grew up on. It was a moment where you truly felt how deeply related Milwaukee is to Chicago, and very much how we are the younger Sister of such a magnificent city, regardless of what traits make us unique. Twista gave good homage to Johnny P and did his verses that were on the popular Do or Die songs. Regardless of what age this guy is, Twista hasn't lost a single step in his craft. For me personally, it was Bone Thugs-N-Harmony took the stage that the concert reached its climax. I felt as if I was placed into a time machine and sent back to 1995. Bone looked as tho they have been preserved since the nineties, I recalled what is to me the greatest rap album of all time: E.1999 Eternal. There is simply no other rap album in the entire world that renders the feels for me like E.1999. Some of the lyrical content of this album would be nearly impossible to pull off for any artist twenty years after the fact. They all did it with near perfection. At this point in the concert, I was a little surprised as to how "short" these artists of my youth seemed to me now. If standing next to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony or Twista I would have towered over them, which will forever seem so odd to me, with this sort of legendary sort of idea you have of these people in your mind your whole life, especially during your youth. We couldn't have been any closer to the action. I was able to stake out a spot right in the corner of the stage in front of the subwoofer and the wall so I was able to lean up against the wall if my leg started giving me hell. Both Snoop Dogg and myself are insanely skinny. Our elbows both look disproportionate to the rest of our arms. So perhaps that is where the common thread lies to those people over the years that insisted I was a "white Snoop Dogg". Snoop put on a hell of a show as well. He came out clad in Green Bay Packer and Milwaukee Bucks attire. His Bucks jersey had SNOOP on the back for the name and #20. It was pretty dope. You would imagine as an artist like Snoop Dogg it would be somewhat difficult to come up with a setlist for a career in rap that spans as long as his does. While you could say his music is entirely "rap" music his career is spread out over the entire evolutionary process of what has happened to rap since "the Gangster Rap era" started to today. The 10-year old boy who wanted to be at home doing math but instead was three feet from a subwoofer twice his height aside, it was shocking to see the demographic of the crowd. If you had to make generalized statements a vast majority of the crowd were alive when Snoop Dogg rose to international fame during the 90s. Simply being able to tell somebody you saw Bizzy Bone and Twista on the same night on the same stage is Bucket-List-level experiences that are now complete for anybody who had the honor of being in attendance. Seeing artists of the Golden Age pay homage to Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace was captivating. When Snoop was on stage at the end of "The Next Episode" when the speakers started howling out Nate Dogg's: "hey, yay, yay, yaaaaay... ... ... smoke weed everyday" the crowd was in such unison that you could have very well heard us all from the other side of the city. There were a thousand people there for ten thousand different walks of life, but last night we all gathered under a single roof and flew a single banner together. The banner of music. It was a magical night that I will not soon forget. I am extremely thankful that I got to have such a wonderful experience and got to enjoy it with such lovely people. --- <div class="benjamin"> <p>✉️ <em><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject={{ post_title }}">Reply by Email</a></em></p> </div>