After an nearly deafening silence, church-like organs started emanating from the speaker stacks adopted by what appeared like Gregorian chanting. The screens lit up with black-and-green animations depicting a dystopian society of individuals seemingly underneath despotic rule. Navy vans pulled by barking Rottweilers sped by traces of individuals awaiting a grim destiny. Shut-ups of inexperienced pupils blinked all over the place. Because the organs reached a crescendo, the myriad screens displayed a composite picture of a kid who instantly grinned with Feid’s monster enamel. The chanting received quicker and the imagery responded in sort: Smirking baby, a cartoon of Feid, guard canines, after which an apocalyptic panorama: FERRXOCALIPSIS.
The visuals remodeled from 2D to 3D because the stage cameras targeted on Feid standing atop the scaffolding’s highest platform. He began rapping the opening bars of “Alakran”: La’ chimbitas, ¿a ver, dónde están? / Que pelen la’ nalguita como chin-chan / Se sientan en la silla del huracán / Viper, viper, no confía en na’, ey.
Then, a deep breath and BOOM: fireworks exploded spherical after spherical, bursts of flames shot into the air, confetti rained down, and decibels surged as spotlights locked on to the famous person as he appeared seemingly from nowhere. The viewers responded with a scream that matched the scene’s depth, evoking the frenzied pleasure of followers watching The Beatles play the Washington Coliseum in 1964. For the following three hours and twenty minutes, Feid by no means stopped shifting, nor did the deluge of pyrotechnics, lasers, and green-tinged chaos of his LED-driven simulacra.
Medellín needed an extravaganza worthy of Las Velitas and so they received simply that: A live performance longer than most Grateful Lifeless exhibits, extra gunpowder than NYC’s East River on the Fourth of July, and no fewer than six shock friends—together with Rauw Alejandro, Miky Woodz, Maisak, Sech, Ryan Castro, Yandel, and ATL Jacob. (Nights two and three would characteristic appearances from Majid Jordan, J Balvin, Dangerous Bunny, Karol G, Maluma, and others). Hell, his guitarist even had a customized Fury Highway-style axe that unleashed balls of fireside.
“Right here I can sing songs that I haven’t sung on the tour as a result of we’re in Medellín,” Feid stated to the ocean of followers. This wasn’t precisely a shock, because the set checklist confirmed he carried out over 50 tracks every evening, from larger hits like “Luna” and “Perro Negro,” to deeper cuts like “Tengo Fe” and “Ey Chory.”
All through the musical melee, Feid was in perpetual movement—embracing one thing between a skip and a jog. He instructed me later that “I bounce rather a lot as a result of that’s the way in which I get folks to attach with my power,” including that his outfits had been chosen particularly to assist his steady kinetics. On high of rocking his collaborative Salomons, Feid later turned into a breathable Stone Island shirt, and stored his white Oakleys on all evening to guard his eyes from cornea-eviscerating LEDs. “The extra snug I can really feel after I’m performing, the higher.” By the point the marathon live performance ended, near 2am, confetti was sticking to his sweat-covered pores and skin.
