I didn’t know what to expect when I headed to Hollywood Casino Amphitheater Wednesday night for The High Road Tour starring Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa. I am still washing the smell of “strange clouds” of my hair a whole week later, but I must say that I had a good little time. I’m just so glad that the show was outdoors – or there might be a class action suit against the tour for permanent lung and sinus damage from breathing in all that second hand smoke. After seeing the headliners get topless over the course of the show, I had the epiphany that Snoop and Wiz are both built like Swisher Sweets, which actually complimented the theme of the concert. I don’t see how they were still standing after the way they puffed and passed all night. But unlike their show, I’m not about to make this Partyline item a marijuana commercial, so I’ll go ahead and get on with it. The chemistry between those two was so seamless that I actually considered watching “Mac and Devin Go to High School” while on an accidental Netflix binge this weekend. Before Snoop and Wiz closed things out with a tag team style show, Kevin Gates, Jhene Aiko, Casey Veggies and DJ Drama warmed the stage up. He sounded okay, but I realized that I can’t all the way be down with a rapper whose name sounds like programming from a television network aimed at toddlers. Jhene Aiko hit the stage in full “I’m stuck at my granny’s for the night so I have to sleep in her bedclothes” swag. She looked cute, but I know somewhere in the world there is a pair of wedge leather slippers to match that 2X silk house shawl. Her voice was as wispy as her wardrobe, but she made it work for me. I don’t see what all the fuss is about Kevin Gates, but y’all clearly do – and he seemed to live up to the expectations of his growing fan base. I’m not gonna lie, he went hard with “I Don’t Get Tired.” As I was waiting for the main attraction, it hit me that I had never seen Snoop Dogg live before Wednesday. He was understandably in mellow mode, but I was impressed. I wish Wiz Khalifa would’ve kicked it up a notch like he normally does instead of keeping pace with Snoop, but all in all it was a really good show. Blind item: Did anyone else see the certain mover and shaker in the creative community of a certain age that was the last person you’d expect to get their life from “Gin and Juice?” I won’t put you on blast, but it was so much fun watching you “turn it up (their words, not mine)!”
