This year was the first time the Miami based music festival "Rolling Loud" came to New York City. It was held at Citifield from 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM on October 12th and 13th, and this two day festival featured ASAP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert, Juice Wrld, A Boogie, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Gunna, Lil Tecca and more well known hip-hop artists. The first day was fairly unorganized: the water refill stations ran out, the only exit was flooded with people at 10 PM making it extremely time consuming to get home, and the owners of the event interrupted several performances to make announcements.

Despite all this, the owners did seem to organize themselves more the second day, and the artists performing made up for the lack of preparedness. Travis Scott gave an incredible performance that closed the first night, and seeing him live for the second time was even better since he hadn't dropped Astroworld yet when he performed at Gov Ball two years ago. Seeing Juice Wrld live after years of loving his music was a life changing experience, and ASAP's closing performance was definitely an iconic moment in Rolling Loud history.

The small four dollar water bottles, 20$ meals, and inefficient exit plan weren't enough to take away from these artists and the energy they produced in the crowds surrounding the stage. Hordes of people bunched together at night, groups larger than I've ever seen at any other festival, everyone dancing, moshing, and taking in the music of their favorite artists. Maybe Rolling Loud New York City was all over the place, but at the end of the day it came down to the crowd and the music, and New York City came with an intensity like no other. I may have left banged up and exhausted, but I would do it all over again in an instant.