{"id":2453708,"date":"2020-01-25T02:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319761"},"modified":"2020-01-25T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T09:44:30","slug":"rae-sremmurd-premieres-new-song-at-x-games-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/rae-sremmurd-premieres-new-song-at-x-games-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rae Sremmurd premieres new song at X Games Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.85346215781\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-319761-353\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/raesremmurd-atd-012520-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/raesremmurd-atd-012520-2-1024x696.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"raesremmurd-atd-012520-2 | Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/raesremmurd-atd-012520-8-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/raesremmurd-atd-012520-8-1024x693.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"raesremmurd-atd-012520-8 | Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>raesremmurd-atd-012520-10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/raesremmurd-atd-012520-10-1024x676.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xphotopage-atd-012520-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xphotopage-atd-012520-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"xphotopage-atd-012520-3 | Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>xphotopage-atd-012520-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/xphotopage-atd-012520-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rae-sremmurd-premieres-new-song-at-x-games-aspen\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rae-sremmurd-premieres-new-song-at-x-games-aspen\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Near the end of an hour-long set that opened three days of mountainside outdoor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/weekly\/x-games-music-what-to-expect-from-rae-sremmurd-alesso-illenium-and-bazzi-in-aspen\/\">concerts at X Games Aspen<\/a> on Friday night, Rae Sremmurd\u2019s Swae Lee announced he\u2019d be debuting a new solo song and asked the enthusiastic crowd, \u201cOnly in Aspen for X Games, can I do some exclusive shit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Making his way to the edge of the mosh pit, he said he\u2019d be watching his fans closely as they heard it for the first time: \u201cNobody here is going to know these words \u2014 I want to see some real reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hip-hop duo\u2019s DJ then spun a few minutes of the unreleased track, which features a trap beat and Swae repeating lines like \u201cI got it straight out my system\u201d and \u201cGet that hate out my system.\u201d Swae said he expected to release it by the end of February, with a full solo album to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The slopeside Buttermilk Ski Area venue roared for the premiere after Swae\u2019s build-up. And as the track played, he hyped up the spectators, dancing and pumping his arms and head-banging among them.<\/p>\n<p>The other half of the duo, Slxm Jimmi, also shared an unreleased solo song, a rowdy new collaboration with DaBaby called \u201cMic Check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As on those two songs, the duo leaned heavily on recorded tracks spun by D_JaySremm for most of the set, singing and rapping in short bursts over the recorded versions. The X Gamers were unfazed, though, happy to dance and sing along to a set list packed with the Atlanta-based siblings\u2019 string of hits as fans know them, following word-for-word as Rae Sremmurd opened with a party-starting run of \u201cNo Type,\u201d \u201cNo Flex Zone,\u201d \u201cPerplexing Pegasus\u201d and \u201cCome Get Her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The duo put a herculean effort into on-stage antics and fan interaction \u2013 both jumping into the crowd multiple times, Slim turning the microphone over to an audience member to freestyle, Swae doing the Batusi, playing air guitar and smashing pineapples, both brothers often lavishing praise on an fiery young audience that Swae called \u201cone of the littest crowds in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to be let down by a show with so much action (lasers and fog machines, strobe lights and a story-high video screen playing animations accompanying the Rae Sremmurd bangers) but it was a let-down. Swae and Slim are studio wizards who\u2019ve made some of the best hip-hop songs of the last decade, no doubt, but one of the things that\u2019s set them apart is the distinct and often surprising interplay of Swae\u2019s disarmingly gentle harmonies and high notes juxtaposed against Slim\u2019s rough-edged verses. Anybody hoping to see that play out live on the X Games stage left this show disappointed, though most of this crowd didn\u2019t seem to mind the pantomime and karaoke-style set.<\/p>\n<p>Several times at the beginning or end of songs \u2013 including \u201cSwang,\u201d \u201cBlack Beatles\u201d and \u201cSunflower\u201d \u2013 Swae did sing a verse a capella or he vamped, plugging references to Colorado, snowboarding, Aspen and X Games into the most familiar of Rae Sremmurd lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>The chilly midwinter air may have hampered the duo\u2019s vocals, of course. It was cold, with the temperatures in the 30s, though that\u2019s balmy by the standards of X Games nighttime concerts when single-digit temps have been a regular occurrence over the last six years.<\/p>\n<p>After closing the set with \u201cPowerglide,\u201d Swae did hint that the cold might have slowed him down: \u201cI got pneumonia or something f-ing with y\u2019all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rae-sremmurd-premieres-new-song-at-x-games-aspen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)raesremmurd-atd-012520-2 Rae Sremmurd performs at the first concert of the 2020 X Games Aspen on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. 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