Befitting the world’s most popular purveyor of so-called “emo rap”,a few of those tears were shed by Laroi himself,hard as they were to see amid the sweat pouring off him and the bass drops hammering everybody’s skulls.
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Sure he has 3 billion streams and a couple of US Top 10 singles to be happy about. But as the land council chief who introduced Laroi reminded us,this was National Sorry Day,and The Kid’s great-great-grandfather was a member of the stolen generations.
Selling out this stadium for two nights had also clearly overwhelmed Laroi. He told us that only three years ago,he thought he’d made it when 150 people came to see him play a room on Crown Street.
“I’ve had at least 500 people tell me they were there,” he said.