The Boys of Zummer Tour – Pittsburgh
Limp Bizkit and Method Man. KRS-One and Debbie Harry. Run-DMC and Aerosmith. Even Snoop Dogg and Rage Against The Machine. All great collaborations of rap and rock. And now, we can safely add The Boys of Zummer Tour to this historical list.
Last night, we dropped by the Burgettstown stop at First Niagara Pavilion and, armed with our press pass and camera, took in all of the excitement as Wiz Khalifa, and Fall Out Boy rocked the stage.
Opening up the show was Brooklyn rapper, Hoodie Allen, who joked about the number of times he’s performed at Altar Bar before heading into some of his most popular songs including “No Faith in Brooklyn”, “All About It” (a collaboration with Ed Sheeran), “Small Town”, and “People Keep Talking”. Allen, who has a large Pittsburgh fan base (many of which were in attendance last night), even had the courage to take on late-90’s smash hit, “My Own Worst Enemy” which was a huge success with the crowd.
After a short break fueled by Pittsburgh’s own DJ Bonics, Wiz Khalifa came on. Starting out his setlist with “Ass Drop” and working through favorites like “Black and Yellow”, “Roll Up”, “We Dem Boyz”, and “Young, Wild, & Free”, Khalifa jumped around the smoky (in more ways than one) stage while performing for his hometown crowd.
His set was full of surprises for the hyped-up audience. He rolled around on an Oxboard (a sort of handleless Segway) and surprisingly managed to keep his balance! All smiles and laughs, Khalifa ran towards the lawn crowd and jumped on the b-stage to perform an energetic rendition of Cabin Fever‘s “Taylor Gang” and was joined by fellow Pittsburgh rapper and friend, Chevy Woods. After returning to the main stage, Khalifa, joined by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, sang “Stayin’ Out All Night” from his latest album, Blacc Hollywood. The explosions of confetti during this track only helped to make the crowd even louder.
Khalifa wrapped up his set with the number one song in the world, “See You Again”, joined by a haunting chorus from the audience.
Bringing it back to the early 2000’s, Fall Out Boy kicked off their set with all-time favorite, “Sugar, We’re Going Down”. It was an energetic way to start off the show and was met with deafening screams from everyone in attendance. Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz wore matching jackets that bore the phrase “This Is Our Culture”, a reference to their 2015 song “Novocaine” which was left out of the setlist.
After tearing through a percussion filled list of songs including “The Phoenix”, “A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More ‘Touch Me'”, and “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”; Stump, Wentz, and guitarist Joe Trohman left drummer Andy Hurley to head to the b-stage. There they pumped out a couple of acoustic songs. This version of “Young Volcanoes” may have been the crowd’s favorite, as they seemed to let themselves go as they sang along with the band.
A skateboarding Wiz Khalifa joined FOB for his verse on the remix of “Uma Thurman”, after which the band headed toward a close. The finished their set with “Centuries” and returned for a much-deserved encore of “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” and 2003’s “Saturday”.
Though some may have been concerned or confused about the combination of Wiz Khalifa’s rap and Fall Out Boy’s rock on a full summer tour, we don’t think that anything else could have possibly work more perfectly! It was flawless. Check out more of our images from the show, below!
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