I decided it would be a good idea to combine both Waka Flocka Flame and Machine Gun Kelly’s Gathering of the Juggalos galleries into one post. They played back to back before ICP on Saturday but they also played a song together to open MGK’s set so it just makes sense.

Let’s start with Waka Flocka because he put on one of the greatest sets I have ever seen. When he first came out on stage most of the juggalos gave him a huge cheer, but some of the juggalos started throwing stuff at him. First it was the standard Faygo bottles but I started to see rocks and glass and even fireworks thrown on the stage. Waka Flocka looked pissed as he performed and I couldn’t tell if he was about to walk off stage.

Instead as one bottle came particularly close to his face he just jumped in the crowd. I thought he was about to fight someone but instead he performed the next few songs of his set while in the mosh pit. I saw a juggalo pass him a bottle of vodka and he just chugged it. Juggalos were taking selfies with him mid song and he was actually posing for them while rapping. The whole thing was honestly fucking amazing and probably the best set I have seen in 6 years of photographing the Gathering and maybe one of the top five sets I have seen in 20 years of shooting live music. He must have agreed cause he commented on my Instagram photo of him with “best show ever”.

– Click here to see the story I did for Noisey on his Gathering set. – Click here to see a slightly blurry photo of him on a golf cart that I shot for Rolling Stone. –

After his set Machine Gun Kelly went on. As I mentioned before I have seen him at the AVN Awards and photographed him backstage at the Woodie Awards but this was the first time I had seen his full set and he put on a great show. I don’t love his music but it was fun to watch and the juggalos loved it. He came out with Waka Flocka on a golf cart and they performed a song together and then he did his own thing. Good show.

More photos coming later tonight. In the mean time check out full galleries from both artists.

Click here to see Waka Flocka Flame performing in the crowd at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Click here to see photos of Machine Gun Kelly at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

 

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