Yung Joc uses other artists’ music to fill his performance

Apparently Yung Joc forgot that he should perform his own music.

For the majority of the concert in Friday’s Finch Fieldhouse performance, the 2007 Grammy-nominated rapper sang karaoke on hits from a variety of other artists.

It was obvious before the concert Yung Joc simply doesn’t have enough well-known songs to fill an entire show. But rather than performing his lesser-known work, he decided to sing 30-second clips of songs from Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, M.I.A., Jibbs and others.

Luckily he did perform solid renditions of his hit singles “It’s Goin’ Down,” and “I Know You See It.”

With a high-energy performance of two hits, the crowd was eager for more, thinking he had an arsenal of songs to pull from his career as a rapper.

The rest of the performance couldn’t have been more of a let down.

But then he deflated the audience’s energy by only playing 10 seconds of his single, “Coffee Shop.”

The performance had too many similarities to T-Pain’s disastrous performance last year, a show that couldn’t live up to its hype because of songs being cut too short.

He seemed to receive more cheers simply for his celebrity status rather than for putting on a good show.

The lowest point of the concert was when he played the theme song from the Jefferson’s and “I Love Rock and Roll” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

Closing the show abruptly with a booty shaking contest was a classless way to end a disappointing performance.

Although the concert wasn’t a complete let-down.

Opener, Kardinall Offishall, delivered a high-energy show and was able to keep the crowd involved the whole way through.

He even spit an impressive freestyle rap just going off objects people in the crowd were holding up.

Call me old school, but I like it when people play their own songs, and furthermore, the entire length of those songs.

Maybe Yung Joc’s karaoke performance was punishment to CMU for not selling out his show or maybe he just wasn’t prepared enough to fill an hour of music.

Whatever the reason, Yung Joc needs to put more thought into his future performances or he will continue to get upstaged by his openers.

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