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Amazing how in just an evening Lauryn Hill could take my love of her music over a decade and destroy it with a lackluster performance, poor staging, terrible sound and of course the usual Lauryn Hill delays. I will never see her live again and will advise others to do the same else waste their money.
Take home message - don't do drugs. Lauryn Hill was horrible and I cannot believe I paid $77.00 to wait until 11:15 to hear her stumble through a handful of songs. HORRIBLE!!
Ms.Lauryn Hill was clearly not interested in entertaining or respecting her fans, a headliner that barely shows up in everyway needs to refund the disappointment...or at least the promoter does.
Compared to 2009.... Absolute garbage! Over 3 hrs spent listening to the same songs over and over being played of an iPod even though dj premiere and Pete rock were in the building. No MC!, only 3 acts compared to the ten I saw in 2009. I'm honestly disgusted on how this show was handled. rock the bells in 2009 was the best concert experience of my life so I convinced 7 other friends to go with me and it ended up being complete garbage! We were mislead and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way. I spent a lot of money on attending this show and I know I'll never see any of it back but from now on I'm just attended small venue shows, at least if it sucks I'm only out a few bucks and I won't feel like I was robbed! Sean booth and nas put on a good show but I wasn't gonna wait around for 2hrs for miss hill.....WE GOT ROBBED!
The ticket said 6:30 PM. But the show did not start until around 8 PM. NaS more than delivered. His set was amazing! However, when he finished it took 90 minutes for Lauryn Hill to come on stage! When she did she looked strung out on some substance. Her songs did not sound the same. Appreciate that the album is older and her voice has changed but she was a disappointment. Only NaS coming back on stage saved her!
rock the bells was falsely advertised. it was headlined by Lauryn Hill and Nas but the rest of the usual lineup for the tour was withheld from the public. Even the official poster of the Toronto Rock the Bells which only features the names of the 2 acts was not released to the public leaving us to believe that it would be the more or less the same complete lineup that it has in the States. Besides that, Nas performance was good but efforts were lacking from the 2 producers and was quite annoying when they played 20 second clips of music that they've produced. Lauryn Hill yet again decided to stretch the curfew of the venue and of the public by deciding to show up 2.5hrs late. Started strong but left the stage after 4 songs and energy went away and so did many of the audience. Unfamiliar songs for something that was supposed to be a concert of classics. Terrible experience.
I and some friends saw Nas and Lauryn Hill for $94.00 per person. Nas was good, he fudged his accapella and ran out of breath during Made You Look but overall a good performance. AZ was also good, and DJ Premier and Pete Rock were even better. Up untill this point the show was enjoyable. Lauryn Hill was then around an hour late, and the crowd grew restless. She ran through songs, making even the classics unenjoyable. My friends and I left halfway through her set, and did not regret it. Although obviously musically gifted, and having moments of truly inspired soul stirring music, Lauryn Hill was terrible. I would not recommend Rock the Bells or Ms. Hill to anybody, especially not for the $94.00 price tag.
I was soo excited about this event. I have been a Lauryn Hill fan since the Fugees and couldn't wait to see her live and in person but it ended up being such a disappointment. First the sound was soo horrible...there was way too much bass and it was too loud to even hear the lyrics properly for any of the performers. Second, Ms. Hill was almost 2 hrs late and began performing around 11:15pm when she was slated to get on at 9:45. When she finally did come on I was too tired and pissed off to really even care and all I could think about was going into my bed and going to sleep. On the positive, Nas was a great performer and from what I could hear Lauryn still has the vocal talent as well but being that late for your fans on a weekday when they have to go into work the next day was not appreciated. Also, a lot of the songs were reworked and unrecognizable...or maybe that was due to the poor sound quality I don't know but some songs should just be kept as they are I believe..esp. if they're the classics.
Was this a Nas Concert or a Layrun Hill Concert? Why did she take 2 hours after Nas finished performing to come on stage? It really killed the crowd's buzz. People started leaving in the middle of her performance. In addition, it is great to change up the original version to a song once in a while. However, she changed up the original beauty of the songs way too much. Mind you, she sang her heart out and looked incredibly beautiful but, I would have liked to hear the songs in their original version more. That's after all why I think a lot of people like myself went in the first place.
Its my second time seeing Lauryn, first time seeing Nas. Lauryn is my all time favorite artist and she could do no wrong in my eyes so maybe I'm not the best person to do a review but I loved her set.I was grateful that she did most of the songs from the album, even though now she is clearly disconnected from the Miseducation album. I think she sang beautifully and looked great in her leather ensemble. Nas was great! He had amazing energy the whole night and really connected with the audience. Overall i had a good time.
Last rock the bells in toronto blew this concert out of the water- there were way less bands then advertised and i swear i hear more from the dj then the actual singers- left after 3-4 hours after only seeing two artists!
Lauryn was late and erratic. A few good songs at the end (when she did the fugees material) but most of miseducation was poorly arranged.
Lauryn Hill showed up over an hour late, and put on an average show and you never got to really hear that great voice. Sorry Lauryn, but it just wasn't that great. I was glad I went to see her, but wouldn't pay to see it again. I know I'm not the first to mention the lateness, so if you are going to a future show, plan ahead! Nas was great as opening act!
Was a very dissapointing concert mainly because the sound quality was soo poor. You could barley make out what was being sung and the renditioins of the songs were whacky and un-identifiable.
Who was that on stage, dressed like Prince and acting like Whitney? Certainly didn't sound like the artist I came to see. I hope she is able to pull it together and overcome whatever struggles she's going through...but I certainly will never buy tickets to see her again. Her album will still remain in my Top 20 best albums list, though... just have to try and block her most recent performance from my mind. :o(
Nas was boring Lauryn hill was 1 and a half hours late and gave a horrible performane.won't pay to see them again!
First of all, I'm unhappy about the timing of this show. The ticket stated that showtime was at 6:30. Toronto's Now Magazine announced that the doors would open at 5:30. We arrived at 6:30 and were allowed into the outer part of the venue complex, but the gates to the seating area weren't actually opened until almost 7:00 PM. This alone felt abusive, considering a ticket price of almost $100. There was an opening act that was fairly mediocre, but due to the poor sound quality I never did clearly hear the rapper's name. Nas's show, during which he performed a lot of material from his classic Illmatic, among other things, got underway soon after 8:00 PM. Nas was excellent, although the sound was not the best, and the two DJs, Premier and Pete Rock, were great at getting the crowd excited. Nas was on, and became more so through the course of the show, which lasted about an hour or slightly less. So far, an acceptable schedule, despite the irritating wait at the beginning. But this is when things began their downhill slide. After Nas's show ended shortly after 9:00 PM, the crowd waited expectantly for Lauryn Hill to come on. And waited. And waited. A couple of times, I set deadlines: "OK, ten more minutes, and I'm out of here." I kept missing these deadlines, however, not wanting to leave only to hear Hill start singing while I was crossing the bridge to the Ex. The waiting was made more tedious by the fact that the trailers for films and upcoming events at the venue was on a fairly short loop that kept repeating ad nauseam. Similarly, the same canned hip hop jams kept playing over and over again. Finally, disgusted and feeling abused, I left at 10:45 after a wait of over an hour and a half. The next morning, I heard that the show finally started close to 11:30 PM -- a wait of close to two and a half hours for those who had the tenacity to stick around. As it happens, I never heard Lauryn Hill, and never will hear her live, because I will never again, under any circumstances, buy a ticket for one of her shows or waste any more of my life as a result of what was, in my opinion, inexcusably unprofessional behavior. (If, by the way, there was some good technical explanation for the late start, the audience should have been informed of this; as long as I was there, though, no such communication was made.)
Ms Hill's display of arrogance tainted our evening as she finally appeared almost 2 hours after her warmup man, Nas
This was the most anticipated tour for me this year. Although Rock The Bells is notorious for not offering the vast celebrity lineup to Canada, that it boasts in the USA, we were fine with that. After all we are talking about Nas, the David that slew the giant Jay-Z. Then there is the greatest female emcee of all time, Lauryn Hill. This was a concert made in heaven, or so one would believe. Nas entered to a Queens Bridge backdrop, with a gated fence, letting you know you were no longer in Kansas. for the sake of space, he tore the place down. Then there was Lauryn, who was welcomed to the stage in true fashion, deserving of royalty, but gave us a confused and utterly disappointing performance. She reworked every song she performed, to the point of being unrecognizable and argued with her bad throughout her performance, made impromptu exits from stage, while sweating for no apparent reason at the start of her set. Hundreds of people left before her performance crashed and burned completely. Her wardrobe and styling, just added to the confusion, of how one could fall so hard from such a great height. We will always have yesterday, Lauryn.
Nas was incredible...wish he performed longer. Had to wait 1.5 hrs for Lauyrn Hill to finally come out. She only said i'm sorry i'm late w/ no explanation. She sounded horrible and kept leaving the stage between songs for lengthy periods of time. Many fans including myself left after she only performed 3 songs. It was midnight at this point and she kept stalling....highly disappointed in Ms. Hill. Had Nas not been part of this show....I'd be extremely livid watching that train wreck called lauryn hill
