Chip Tha Ripper

There’s a nice dichotomy to Chip tha Ripper’s stage name - something innocent about the first part, and downright sinister about the latter - but, in truth, nothing about Charles Worth’s career in the rap game - which has spanned more than a decade to date - has really played off of that idea of light and shade; instead, for an artist who has always been on the mainstream side of the genre as far as the promotion and commercial success of his releases have been concerned, he’s actually often veered very close to what I’d classically consider to be alternative hip hop territory - consider, for example, the fact that his lyrics can go from being stark to downright funny in the blink of an eye, and that he’s worked hard to incorporate certain southern rap stylings - bearing in mind that particular scene was all the rage when his career began in 2002 - like the chopped and screwed remixing approach into his music. In more recent years, he’s probably been most notable for his hookups with his friend Kid Cudi, appearing prominently on his Man on the Moon: The End of Day LP as well as its sequel and A Kid Named Cudi, the mixtape that launched him into the big time.

So the time advertised for the show was 9 PM at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, OH. We got to the venue at 9:30 PM to find that there were just a bunch of local (amateur) openers that were not advertised.

The local openers lasted until 12:30 AM when the advertised opener (Quentin Miller) appeared at about 12:36 AM. We had to leave at 12:45 AM because the headliner, Chip, still hadn't preformed yet. I imagine that Chip came on after Quentin Miller between 12:46 AM - 1 AM, so it took 3+ hours for the headliner to come on after the advertised time.

Extremely disappointed with both the venue and the artist. It was false advertising so people could buy more drinks from the venue to maximize their capital while the crowd waited over 3 hours for the headliner to even come on. This was a weekday we're talking about and they expect people to wait until 1 AM for the real concert to begin? Not going back to the Grog Shop in Cleveland, OH.