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Lil Durk Wraps Howard Homecoming Show Early Due to Lackluster Crowd Energy

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Lil Durk won’t put up with a lackluster audience. The Chicago rapper popped up at Howard University’s homecoming and cut his set short due to what he felt was a dead crowd.

After a couple of singles, Durk would give a parting message and leave the stage.

Aye, look. We supposed to did more songs but this shit sound so bogus that I don’t even feel this shit, for real,” Durk said. “But I appreciate y’all for fucking with us in this motherfucker, man.”

While Howard might not have been the spot for Durk, plenty of arenas around the country were. Durk just wrapped up the “Back Outside” tour with Lil Baby and revealed the two sold 250,000 tickets with $15 million in profit.

“250K tickets sold overall profit 15mssss @lilbaby we did it,” Durk wrote.

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Slave Nets?: Kanye West Brought Sunday Service To Howard Homecoming, Reactions Were…Mixed

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Apparently, Kanye West wasn’t cancelled enough to miss Howard Homecoming. Students were greeted with a Saturday morning  (Oct. 12) edition of Yeezy’s Sunday Service at Howard University, and the reactions were mixed, to say the least.

One the one hand, you got diehard fans who feel Yeezy can do no wrong and were all in when it came to seeing their hero perform his gospel-inflected tunes.

On the other, you had folks who aren’t feeling MAGA Yeezy’s problematic, ill-informed hot takes on culture, race and politics, which he made sure to share with the impressionable youth in attendance. A guy who proudly says he doesn’t read books and rides with Trump kicking it at HU, which alums proudly call “The Mecca”?

Then you had the folk who are just entertained by a good train wreck, no matter the circumstances. For example, Yeezy blessed the crowd with some sage advice about avoiding slave nets. We kid you not.

Peep some of the better reactions below.

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Kanye West’s Sunday Service Pops Up At Howard University

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Kanye West has been taking his Sunday Service performance experience on the road in various cities as of late, no doubt to prepare listeners for the highly-anticipated Jesus Is King album. This morning (October 12) as Howard University’s homecoming weekend kicks off, the Chicago superstar brought Sunday Service to the Yard much to the delight of many.

Footage thus far is still coming in via Twitter but from what we can gather, West and his large entourage of performers made their way to the campus grounds of the famed HBCU to deliver music and upliftment as has been the case with previous pop-up performances.

Early reports from Twitter revealed that the visit was largely brief as HuffPost editor Phillip Lewis gave his brief account of the moment.

According to a reporter from local news outlet WUSA, students at Howard were alerted of West’s performance early this morning via email.

Dr. Greg Carr, the chair of Howard’s Afro American Studies department, invited West to the school’s Founder’s Library to offer him some books to take with him on the road in the wake of the artist’s resurgent love of all things MAGA. It isn’t known if West took him up on the offer.

And while critique on Twitter of West’s Sunday Service has indeed been high this morning, there are some who found a reason to praise the move.

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