To the individuals who thought Doja Cat ought to’ve been an opener, to the individuals who accused her of not being a rapper, Doja Cat opened up the Barclays Center cease of The Scarlet Tour with a ‘fuck you.’ She took the stage by herself in a getup that pushed androgyny to its limits, with brief hair, an open jacket, a nude physique swimsuit, and dishevelled cargo pant legs that took typical concepts of feminity and masculinity and smashed them collectively. Then she grabbed a mic that hung down from the ceiling and went into “WYM Freestyle,” the freestyle that closes her new 17-song album Scarlet. It was a packed enviornment in Brooklyn, Doja was rapping her ass off, and she or he already had the screaming crowd within the palms of her arms. Consider her critics silenced.
Doja break up her present into 5 acts, and for the primary act, she primarily stayed in hard-edged rap territory, with three different tracks from Scarlet and an particularly menacing rendition of her 2019 Rico Nasty collab “Tia Tamera.” She was backed by stay musicians, backup singers, and a DJ, and she or he had dancers and pyro that made for a creative spectacle as Doja gave it her all. On each degree–sonically, visually, energy-wise, setlist-wise–this present was a winner with nary a boring second.
As a lot as she proved herself (for the upteenth time) as a rapper, she additionally performed a really stable choice of her poppier songs. Planet Her highlights “Woman,” “Ain’t Shit,” “Get Into It (Yuh),” “Need To Know,” and “Kiss Me More” have been all enormous standouts, as was her Latin funk-tinged rework of “Say So.” She’s an ideal singer and an ideal rapper, and–regardless of telling the gang close to the tip of the set that she had been sick for your complete present–she actually placed on a efficiency to recollect.
Doja Cat alone would’ve been sufficient to make this live performance one for the books, but it surely was made even higher by the opening set from Ice Spice. Opening an enviornment present can usually be a tossup–even if you happen to’re quickly rising by yourself, generally it is nonetheless exhausting to interrupt by means of to a crowd who’s getting their snacks and drinks and discovering their seats. But Ice Spice had folks operating as far up as safety would permit them and screaming on the tops of their lungs. Opening this tour could not have appeared like a extra good transfer for her.
Ice Spice would not have that many songs but, however she principally performed each one that you could possibly consider, from her personal immediate classics like “Munch (Feelin’ U),” “In Ha Mood,” “Gangsta Boo,” “Princess Diana,” and “Deli” to her PinkPantheress collab “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2” to her Barbie track to her On The Radar freestyle that she devoted to her day ones. She had her producer RIOTUSA on the 1s and 2s, 4 dancers, and a graffiti-covered backdrop, and she or he sounded genuinely nice on each single track. She’s already probably the most thrilling new artists on this planet, however seeing it stay actually seals the deal.
Check out some movies from Barclays beneath, together with setlists through Setlist.fm (technically from different cities, however I’m fairly positive they have been the identical in Brooklyn). The tour’s subsequent cease is at Newark’s Prudential Center on Thursday (11/30) and it continues by means of mid-December. All remaining tour dates are listed beneath.
Doja Cat Setlist (via)
Act I
WYM Freestyle
Demons
Tia Tamera
Shutcho
Agora Hills
Act II
Attention
Often
Red Room
(Hiatus Kaiyote cowl)
Balut
Gun
Ain’t Shit
Act III
Woman
Say So
Get Into It (Yuh)
Need to Know
Kiss Me More
Act IV
Paint the Town Red
Streets (Contains components of “Freak”)
Fuck the Girls (FTG)
Act V
97
Can’t Wait
Go Off
Ouchies
Wet Vagina
Ice Spice Setlist (via)
Deli
Princess Diana
Gangsta Boo
Butterfly Ku
Actin a Smoochie
On the Radar
Pretty Girl
Barbie World (Nicki Minaj & Ice spice track)
Boy’s a liar Pt. 2 (PinkPantheress & Ice Spice track)
Bikini Bottom
In Ha Mood
Munch (Feelin’ U)
Doja Cat / Ice Spice — 2023 Tour Dates
Thu Nov 30 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Sat Dec 02 Boston, MA TD Garden
Mon Dec 04 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
Thu Dec 07 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Fri Dec 08 Omaha, NE CHI Health Center
Sun Dec 10 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
Mon Dec 11 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena
Wed Dec 13 Chicago, IL United Center
