I was in the crowd and the people came to see Messy. Even the Crips were showing love to Messy. People were actually talking shit about Guce for some reason. The show was a problem from the beginning. Niggaz was on that bangin shit. It reminded of the early 90's in Seattle and Tacoma.
The Security was not doing their jobs and niggaz was on some reppin' their hood shit. I was set to perform and I was stopping fights between different groups, security, etc. trying to calm the situation down. The MC for the night had no control of the stage, no security to help him. Niggaz just hopped on stage reppin their sets. Messy didn't even hit the stage until 1:20am and the club starts to shutdown @ 1:30am. So basically Messy got paid for an appearance not a performance.
But the police had to escort Messy out the building and out of Everett. People were driving by his Stretch Hummer and screaming "Fuck Messy". I think it's unfortunate because the Northwest has a lot of love for Bay Area/California Rappers. Even more than their own region. We have no problem spending money with the Bay.
I use to love Messy's music. But when he started doing that Blood shit, I thought it was corny. I stop listening to his music. I got respect for Bloods as a whole. But to be a grown ass man, joining a gang. That ain't Boss Shit. I can see if you was on that from jump. But I remember when the nigga use to say "Cuzzin".