Last night, the Young & Sexy Back to School Tour swept through Baltimore's First Mariner Arena, bringing such artists like Young Berg, Ray J, Trey Songz, Lloyd and The Dream. With a hardly filled arena (blame the weather or the economy), many of the young artists took their shirts off and tried to make adolescent girls in the audience out scream each other...
During the middle of the concert, we slid backstage to talk to some of our favorite artists (Shout out to Kim who got me the hookup!). Trey Songz had his entire entourage in his dressing room when we went to chat with him; not to mention his room smelled like old butt with dudes smoking up across the room and an empty bottle of Patron on the table.
Not the warmest kid, Trey seemed to have an attitude with just about everyone, even yelling to the dressing room, "Can't y'all see I'm doing an interview?", when it got too loud. However, when the interview was over he did warm up by flirting...badly. He tells me, "You know, you smell like champagne." Okay...
We also spotted The Dream backstage who had the most thorough security guard ever...but he did let me snag a pic! :)
Lloyd was the most professional and humble of them all. Complete with a cute kid sidekick, Lloyd shared how he was voting for Obama because after checking out both sides, Obama seemed the most sincere about changing the country. He told of Michael Jackson being a musical influence and that he'd never cut his braids...at least not in the near future.
Kim, a freelance writer, Lloyd and DC Fab! Girl Joi-Marie
The Young & Sexy Back to School Tour needed a couple of things: more people, less roadies (like Can Do of "I Want to Work for Diddy" who was spotted backstage) and more artists like Lloyd. :)
Stay fab!
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