People crawled up out the corn fields for Katt Williams

Last night, a co-worker invited me to see Katt Williams at Veterans Memorial in Columbus.  I obliged since it’s essentially the weekend for me and excited to get out of the house for the eve.  Whoo chile!  The crowd itself could rival Katt in terms of entertainment.  I was excited and shocked to have my first sighting of the Ohio ghetto crowd.  Ghetto!  I mean tore up from the floor up!  It was beautiful.  Big butts in tight jeans, rhinestones, gold tones, stacked hair, boots, shiny bags.  The men, too!  Those damn velour blazers folks keep sportin’ like they think they’re Heff (Hugh Heffner) himself.

I don’t believe this many folk could surface from Columbus itself, so I can only imagine they came from the corn fields.  Yep, Springfield, Chillicothe, Circleville, Reynoldsburg…  They dismounted their tractors, jumped into their gigantic pickup trucks, and had a night out with the family.  I must say there were no crying babies, though.  I guess folks have just enough sense to know this was probably not a kids crowd, or the opportunity to drink and act a fool was enough to have them hunt down a babysitter for the night.

Now, throw in a bar, the fact that the show started at 8pm, and Katt didn’t take the stage until after 10pm, and you can only imagine the night we had.  One guy had enough time to get so drunk that he got on Katt regarding a joke.  He stumbled out of the audience, down the aisle, and towards the stage yelling something like “talk to a real nigga!”  Needless to say, nobody was claiming him, he was booed by the audience, Katt had a field day with him before asking security to escort him out.  Escorting took the form of him facing the stage stumbling backwards back up the aisle as security kept herding him back.  And he was STILL mouthing off “talk to a real nigga!”  Whoo!  Y’all missed out.  Or maybe you didn’t.  You gotta post if you were there for this spectacle.  All on a Wednesday night, people!  Don’t these folks have to go to work tomorrow, or they all like me working weekend nights?

Katt was good.  The opening act right before him was good, too, but she was on too long.  Was it worth 70 bucks (taxes, tags, and title…you know how ticketmaster be pimpin’ us)?  Probably not.  The people watching?  Priceless!