Rapper Jay Electronica quickly became the enemy of security at Philadelphia’s Made In America festival after he requested that fans help him collapse the stage, during his performance on Saturday (September 3).
According to Philly.com, concertgoers revealed that attention was diverted from Electronica after Lil Uzi Vert, who hails from Philly, was spotted by attendees.
To quickly get their attention back, Jay Electronica demanded, “If you ain’t scared, come up here…Yo, let’s try to collapse this mothafuckin’ stage. Let’s try to tear this bitch down.”
In a video of the incident, dozens of festival attendees can be seen making their way from the crowd to the stage, while security yells for them to “back up.”
Philly.com reports that police were ultimately called, and the on-stage crowd was broken up.
Jay Electronica doesn’t serve as the first Hip Hopper to let fans grace the stage. Last year, Travis Scott was charged with reckless conduct after he told fans at Lollapalooza to jump over security barricades, which they did.
Video of Jay Electronica encouraging fans to help him collapse the stage at Made In America can be found below.
Jay electronica??? This dude is the definition of a irrelevant has-been
Gtfoh
I don’t even care if it takes a DJ Snapchat feature, but I’d really like to hear “Jay Electronica Album is Done” after all these years of waiting.
What a moron.
Who is this guy? Do he got an album out?
UZI was no where around…. Jay Elect was being Jay Elect! He wanted to be surrounded by his people, and connected with them all. So he told us all to hop on stage with him. That was all!
Hi people? You know this nigga’s a 5 percenter right? He’s not tryin to invite the white devil up on stage just cuz its an act of endearment. Nah nigga. This motherfucker just wanted to do stupid shit. Fuck this nigga.
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I don’t want an album from this nigga anymore. He’s done. I aint even gonna illegally bootleg his album if it does come out. He’s playing with people like he’s the dopeman and we all dope fiends. I can’t say it enough. Fuck this nigga