Hot97’s Summer Jam 2010 was an enjoyable show with no drama (well, at least, backstage), great weather, and big performances. I was especially interested to see how Drake would graduate from 2009 cameo to 2010 headliner, and Nicki Minaj rocked her first SJ like a true star (appearing in 4 different sets). I moved around from the new radio-broadcast room, to the side of the stage, and finally ended up at the corporate skybox with the suits but that’s where I watched what felt like the emotional high point of the night.
I didn’t even expect for Khaled’s set to get the crowd this hype but he was smart about the pacing (one verse and switch), and he played to the Tri-State crowd. It wasn’t about pushing his own acts or agenda. He had T-Pain and Busta come out. Then Rawse did “BMF” for the hood, Fat Joe repped the Bronx, Barrington Levy killed with his classic dancehall sing-a-long (was I the only one who thought Shyne was about to come out?)….and, of course, the building went bonkers when Cam’ron jumped out for his first Summer Jam appearance in years. Vado showed his potential with his “Speakin’ Tungs,” debut, and Khaled closed out with some good “All I do is Win” crowd participation.
(if you were at Summerjam, what did you think got the biggest crowd response of the night?)

Now, my coworker Peter Rosenberg was also running around backstage and also caught some funny flipcam footage of JCole, Talib Kweli, Drake, Rick Ross, Cam’ron, and, um, plenty of Rosenberg, himself.

Watch that and see all the related footage, after the jump


Peter Rosenberg’s SummerJam 2010 backstage recap

Previously:
Hot97 SummerJam 2010 Recap: Nicki Minaj, Drake, Usher, Cam’ron, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, Trey Songz and more
Live Backstage at Summerjam 2010…..(Updated: Saved clips)

Related:
Splash/Dajaz1’s SummerJam 2010 play by play
NowWhut’s footage of Cam and Vado onstage at SummerJam
Nahright’s SummerJam photo gallery (including a funny pic of JCole and me, with Lowkey/UHTN and JLaPuma/Complex cameos