{"id":269323,"date":"2025-10-01T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269323\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:00:36","slug":"amine-reminds-us-to-take-it-day-by-day-in-uplifting-dallas-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269323\/","title":{"rendered":"Amin\u00e9 Reminds Us to Take It Day by Day in Uplifting Dallas Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can start your work week off by going about your usual routine and counting down the days until the weekend<\/a>. Or you can hit Amin\u00e9\u2019s show on Monday to dance the night away.<\/p>\n

On an otherwise sleepy school night in Dallas, South Side Ballroom<\/a> was modestly full with plenty of room for the Portland, Oregon, rapper\u2019s fans to chill and take in the easygoing sounds of opening DJ, Lido. Many of them bought tour merch from Amin\u00e9\u2019s Tour de Dance, a 40-show run he\u2019s doing to support 13 Months of Sunshine, his new album drawing from a 1970s tourism slogan in Ethiopia, where a year lasts 13 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TwoLido and MadisonLST warmed up fans with a set that skewed towards early 2000s hip-hop and R&B.<\/p>\n

The blue hoodie was the most copped item, with an encouraging message written on the back that speaks to the seriousness and lighthearted humor of Amin\u00e9\u2019s feel-good personality.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt feels like the world is burning and nothing really matters right now but I hope you remember to take it day by day. Life is not easy and you dictate how you want to live it. Your job and follower count will not be what people remember you for. The empathy and grace you show others, your family, and friends should always be on top of mind. Please don\u2019t forget that. I hope your heart is filled with love and appreciation for yourself. I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll see you again but until then\u2026you\u2019re beautiful (but I\u2019m sure you know that). PS. Watch Cast Away even if you have already. The crab leg scene might be one of my favorite depictions of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amin\u00e9 is best known for his creativity and vibrant style. He has a lot of hometown pride for Portland, repping Rip City in his music videos whenever he can. He climbed the Billboard Hot 100 charts for his infectious song \u201cCaroline,\u201d which you couldn\u2019t escape in 2016-2017. A few projects later, he released the album of the summer in 2023, which he teamed up with Kaytranada for on Kaytramin\u00e9, a collaboration that had been brewing since his mixtape days.<\/p>\n

When you think of Amin\u00e9, you appreciate that he stays out of the way and has his own metric for success. He doesn\u2019t necessarily have to chase fame for clout, involve himself in any rap beefs, or start becoming a streamer to build up his brand. People like his music and the messages in it because he\u2019s honest, not shy to share his roots as a son of Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants, or spill out his emotions.<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 comes out to greet his fans.<\/p>\n

Once Amin\u00e9 arrived on stage, the next hour was him rapping every word and giving fans the much-needed energy to go from zero to 60 to 100. This was a festival-quality set brought together by a three-sided video screen with narration, immersive animations and colorfully radiant palettes matching his songs with art that kept the show in constant movement. He has stacked up a nice catalogue of songs, pulling from Good for You, OnePointFive, Limbo and 13 Months of Sunshine. The first set of songs was insanely fun, opening with \u201cVacay,\u201d \u201cRiri,\u201d \u201cRaspberry Kisses\u201d and \u201cWoodlawn,\u201d his tribute to the late Kobe Bryant, who was his idol growing up.<\/p>\n

Amin\u00e9 is not a political rapper, but he has openly criticized President Donald Trump in the past<\/a>. Recently, he was one of the initial 400 artists and record labels to remove his music from Israel, a \u201ccultural boycott\u201d to protest the ongoing violence against Palestinians. \u201cFree Palestine!\u201d Amin\u00e9 chanted after a few songs, sending a poignant message.<\/p>\n

Before you realize all the fucked up shit happening in the world, Amin\u00e9 provides us the light to escape. His shows began with telling us that \u201cwe\u2019re beautiful.\u201d Our response is simply to say \u201cI know.\u201d Songs like \u201cArc De Triomphe\u201d and \u201cNew Flower\u201d are a joy to hear live, the latter featuring his father\u2019s voice in a gesture to put him on the album to show parents are humans too.<\/p>\n

\"TwoFans wearing banana head costumes as an ode to Amin\u00e9\u2019s hit song \u201cCaroline.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shared that his first Buc-ee\u2019s trip was this week, trying out the brisket sandwich. He loved it so much that he\u2019s willing to kick his healthy tour diet for it. He complimented two groups of people who were \u201creally fucking fly\u201d: two girls wearing robes from the \u201cVacay\u201d video and four others wearing banana head costumes. He led the crowd to sing Happy Birthday to one of his fans. He brought someone up to sign his tour pants and write personal words on the theme, a tradition where they design a patch for every city and attach it to the pants at every show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 is doing the tour pants again.<\/p>\n

\"WomanOur Dallas fan that got to sign the tour pants.<\/p>\n

You can feel his enjoyment as he performs, dancing freely and smiling all the time. This is the same rapper who appeared on the 2017 XXL Freshman cover with the cover line \u201cGeneration Next.\u201d His peers on that cover were guys like A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Playboi Carti<\/a> and the late XXXTentacion, who make trendsetting music that\u2019s been microwavable and overcooked by their imitators. Amin\u00e9 is not like them, creating his own lane by continuing to express his Pan-African identity through textured introspection, who occasionally delivers swagger-filled bangers like \u201cCharmander,\u201d \u201cBurden\u201d and \u201cShimmy\u201d like he did Monday night.<\/p>\n

His last set of songs stretched deep into fan favorites. He did \u201cFamiliar,\u201d \u201cRedmercedes,\u201d \u201cCompensating\u201d and \u201cHeebiejeebies,\u201d a reminder that artists like Young Thug and Kehlani co-signed him early. He did \u201cReel It In,\u201d \u201cSpice Girl\u201d and \u201cFeels So Good.\u201d <\/p>\n

We were impressed by how the newer songs seamlessly flowed from sunny, party records to the early hits that made him a critical darling. Some of these songs are several years old. Instead of sounding dated when performed back-to-back, it unlocked memories of summers, drink in hand, with little worries.<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 would take on the role of a videographer and director throughout the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaroline\u201d was the grand finale. Taking a camera from one of his camera guys, the gifted director put back on the yellow shades he was wearing at the start of the show. He would point it at himself and the crowd, doing an almost acapella version of \u201cCaroline\u201d with minimal beat. The crowd projected on the screens, a cool shot with the camera phones recording him. He modified the lyrics too, telling people, as the \u201cKilla\u201d line came up, not to say it if they\u2019re not Black.<\/p>\n

Before the encore, Amin\u00e9 did another \u201cFree Palestine!\u201d chant just in case we didn\u2019t hear him the first time. While \u201cCaroline\u201d would\u2019ve been a better ending, he brought out Fort Worth\u2019s own Leon Bridges<\/a>. Bridges famously made a cameo in the \u201cRedmercedes\u201d so to see him come through was big for local artists supporting our fellow out-of-towners.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody say thank you Leon,\u201d Amin\u00e9 said. \u201cMake some noise for everybody who put this tour together. Make some noise for everybody who put the merch together. Make some noise for the banana heads. Make some noise for the robes. Make some noise for Buc-ee\u2019s! Love y\u2019all man.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the cover of 13 Months of Sunshine, there\u2019s a sloth. It\u2019s what came to mind as we made our way to the exit, another message by Amin\u00e9 to not rush things and live a slow-paced lifestyle. It\u2019s nice to know that these fans chose the importance of work-life balance over staying in.<\/p>\n

See more photos from Monday\u2019s show:<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 is rocking his forthcoming New Balance Biblioteca 2000.<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 wants to go on vacay. So do we.<\/p>\n

\"\"Amin\u00e9 wasn\u2019t kidding about his love for Buc-ee\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 delivered positive vibes for a good night.<\/p>\n

\"ManAmin\u00e9 is showing us love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can start your work week off by going about your usual routine and counting down the days…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,14839,14838,12079,2136,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-269323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-hip-hop","11":"tag-local-music","12":"tag-nightlife","13":"tag-photos","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-touring-artists","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115299275990426631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}