Stage Struggles: Strange Fan Encounters at Shows
Action Bronson defends his personal space once again.
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Mr. Wonderful Strikes Again - Some of Action Bronson's fans will never learn. In what appears to be life goals for some of his supporters, getting the ceremonial body slam and boot off the stage is a desired act of stupidity by stage crashers at his live shows. This time Bam Bam delivered the stage left during The Lovebox Festival in England as the the concert goer found out that love hurts.While Bronson continues to destroy the mic and his pesky trolls at the same damn time, check out a few more awkward encounters between artists and their fans. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)
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The Sideline Story - A overzealous fan tried to give J. Cole a crooked smile while he was performing in San Diego. Not content with sitting on the sideline and enjoying the show, Cole's troll decided to throw a cell phone at the North Carolina MC. Keeping his cool, Jermaine laughed it off and pocketed his new gift, then proceeded to rock the mic. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for ESPN)
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Goon Affiliated - A fan got too close for comfort with Plies this weekend after he let a supporter on stage in Tallahassee, Fla. Staring face-to-face with one another, Plies told the man, "We too close to be two n****s," before the fan body slammed the unsuspecting rapper. A beatdown by security ensued and Plies went back to rocking his set. The fan later released a clip explaining his side: that he was merely trying to shake his favorite rapper's hand when "he started talking that boss s**t and I dropped him like any real n***a." (Photo: Aaron Davidson/Getty Images)
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Posed to Be in Love - Kevin Gates literally had women trying to get at him last month during his show in Flint, Mich. Security had to intervene and words were exchanged after a few female fans tried to grab the Louisiana MC off of the stage. Later in that same show, Gates allegedly threw an elbow during another altercation with a female fan, but the show still went on and Luca Brasi still did his thing. (Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Lights Out - Lil Wayne has a pause button but his fans sure don't. Before his performance on his Release Partiez club tour, someone threw a beer at the Young Money boss. Weezy heckled back on the mic, but another one of his fans played vigilante, delivering several blows to the one who spilled the drink.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BET)
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Monster - Run the Jewels showed just what they were about at SXSW 2015 after a concertgoer tried to attack El-P onstage. Fortunately, Killer Mike intervened and their Grind Time squad was there to take care of business. El-P later tweeted, "We are about peace but don't make the mistake of thinking we are alone."(Photo: Alli Harvey/Getty Images for Spotify)
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Iron Man - Ghost and Raekwon recently performed in Texas at a tattoo convention and had to stop the show for one concertgoer who kept heckling. "He was keeping the middle finger up all night telling me to eat a d**k," he said. The crowd wasn't feeling it either and several fans wound up rocking the interrupter before security escorted him out.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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IStillLoveTuesdays - Someone tried to steal all of the greatness of "Tuesday" away from ILoveMakonnen. The OVO-signee was at the club — yes, on a Tuesday — performing his hit remix featuring Drake when a front-row concert-goer grabbed him, slammed him on the stage and punched him until he was pulled away.No word yet on why the unidentified "fan" was so upset (was it his girl in the cut?). Mak simply got up and continued with his song. (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)
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Who Do You Love? - The audience didn't get the memo to bick back and be bool at YG's performance in Canada in August. Fans tossed water bottles and he cut his set short.(Photo: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Some Type of Way - While performing and giving dap to the front rows at 3 Monkeys in Rancine, Wis., one fan held onto Rich Homie Quan a little too long. "I thought he was trying to shake my hand," Rich explained to the audience, "n***a tried to get on stage!" His scolding came with one final thought: a slap upside the fan's head.(Photo: Christopher Polk/BET/Getty Images for BET)
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Bam Bam Goes Bam - During an Action Bronson show in Seattle, a fan decided to rush the stage mid-set. It's unclear if he was doing anything malicious — more than likely, he was just excited and wanted to get close to Bam Bam — but that didn't alter the Queens rappers' reaction. In a split second, Action picked up the rusher, tossed him into the crowd like a rag doll, then returned to his rhymes.(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)
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Bottles Toss - Azealia Banks exited mid-song at the Listen Out 2013 festival in Australia. She was performing her Pharrell-assisted "ATM Jam," when someone in the audience tossed a full beer can at her. Banks later apologized via Twitter. A statement from her rep added that she and the crew felt "unsafe" — artists don't want to be ducking and dodging when they're in the zone. (Photo: Simone Joyner/Getty Images)
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Body Snatcher - When Beyoncé reached into the audience to touch someone in the crowd in Sao Paulo, Brazil, she got more than she bargained for. One overzealous, shirtless fanatic took hold of her with a two-armed hug and pulled her off the stage. (She never stopped singing, though.)(Photo: Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
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Glow Stick It to 'Em - Lupe Fiasco decided to stop his show and announce that he has four black belts — four — after a fan threw a glow stick on stage and it hit him in the head.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Tear the Club Up - Fisticuffs shut down A$AP's SXSW show after one member of the Harlem crew did a crowd surf and a fan got him for his du-rag. A$AP Rocky tried to calm the scuffle, but beer cans were thrown on stage and it escalated.(Photo: Roger Kisby/Getty Images)
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No Soda Pop Artist - A Tyler, The Creator fan served him some Mountain Dew during a "Sandwitches" performance at SXSW. The Odd Future rapper took pause when the soda was thrown on stage and said, simply, "Man the f**k up."(Photo: EPA/STEVE C. MITCHELL /LANDOV)
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The Hand of God - Maino was performing "Hi Hater" when he got embroiled in a discussion about hood-reppin' with a fan. It ended with Maino delivering a slap that set off a floor-clearing melee.(Photo: Jeffrey Ufberg/Getty Images)
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Whoop That Trick - In the midst of a performance, K. Michelle threatened to take off her lace-front wig and "whoop" a fan who was "talking s**t" on her Twitter account. Yes, she was checking Twitter while on stage.(Photo: Greg Campbell/Getty Images for The Get Schooled Foundation)
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What's Tweef? - Joe Budden put a concert-goer out of her misery when he refused to perform until she left the venue. The VIP attendee was live-tweeting her displeasure in, first of all, having to go to the show (she was accompanying her boyfriend); her disdain for being there (she tweeted that the venue was "dead"), and finally, her delight in leaving. ("I feel flattered though..." she wrote.)(Photo: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images)
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Capo and the Solo Cup - After someone threw one of those iconic red Solo cups on stage at a Jim Jones show, Jimmy stopped the show and his crew jumped into the crowd to confront the missile launcher. Security intervened. Fan ejected.(Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
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Ain't Playing No Games - Game stopped a show in Oslo, Norway, after a fan threw a bottle on stage. The rapper demanded that the house lights be turned back on and jumped into the crowd to face off with the fan, saying, "Not so tough now, boy."(Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images)