Kanye West, Erykah Badu, and massive lines at SXSW

I asked a few Texas teenagers who were standing on line in front and back of me if they read her Twitter posts about why she was running late for the show, which sounded like it started without her, but none of them knew anything about it. Since it was obviously going to be a while before they got inside the venue, they seemed more relieved that they weren't missing her performance than concerned about what happened to the singer.

With the line for Erykah's show still moving as slow as molasses at 7:45pm, I left and headed over to Kanye West's GOOD Music showcase at the Levi's Fader Fort only to find myself at the tail end of another massive line. (The organizers reportedly distributed 17,000 wristbands for the event!) I was still waiting to get in when I heard Kanye take the stage around 9:06pm. He opened with "Amazing" from 808s & Heartbreak before introducing rapper Consequence, who played a brief solo set. I finally got in some time around then and immediately ran into Dead Prez and Bazaar Royale, who were hanging out before their midnight show at the Austin Music Hall.