At one show, Hodgy threw himself from the roof of the venue and Tyler broke a fan’s nose after leaping from a speaker stack into the crowd. In their early years, the then-adolescent group were eager to disrespect the elder generation’s rules, and their skater-punk aesthetic swept up audiences at the 2011 outing of the SXSW industry showcase.
This latest evolution of rap’s relationship with moshing and stage diving arguably began with Odd Future – the rebellious DIY rap crew that birthed Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean, Hodgy Beats, Earl Sweatshirt and Syd and Matt Martians of The Internet. While hip-hop gigs used to see fans casually nod their heads, in recent years acts like Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Danny Brown, A$AP Mob, and Migos have been at the vanguard of a cultural shift that’s seen rap acts adopting performance styles more commonly associated with punk and metal bands – and they’ve often embraced the rockstar aesthetic too.
It’s probably no coincidence that the rise of moshpits at rap shows has coincided with the genre’s shift away from the slick boom-bap style beat that underpinned most hip-hop songs for decades, and towards the more intense, bass-driven trap sound. While the presence of moshpits at hip-hop gigs can be traced back as far as the late ’80s, with acts like Beastie Boys stage-diving while playing to crossover crowds of rap and rock fans, and Onyx celebrating slam dancing (an early name for moshing) back in ’93, it’s only in this decade that moshing has become a constituent part of nearly any rap event you go to.
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The film’s opening scenes are a seemingly endless reel of fans throwing themselves from the stage to the crowd, surfing on top of one another, and opening up circle pits before charging into each other at full pelt.
It only takes a few minutes of Look Mom I Can Fly – the Travis Scott-produced documentary about his own rise to fame – to realise where the inspiration for the title came from.
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