2025 Essence Festival Technical Difficulties

[ProfD]

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/stephanie-mills-slams-2025-essence-fest-for-technical-issues/article_4ecee8b0-0bd0-4775-8aaa-3c0e1aadcde1.html

 

https://people.com/lauryn-hill-speaks-out-against-misconception-after-essence-festival-11768754

 

Both Stephanie Mills and Lauryn Hill performed at the Essence Festival this year amid technical difficulties. 

 

The festival *organizers* took ownership in dropping the ball leading to technical issues and late start times for performers.

 

Lauryn Hill was supposed to start around 12:30 a.m. Delays through no fault or her own pushed start time to 2:30 a.m. She finished performing an hour later to a nearly empty audience. 

 

In other Essence festival news, it's being reported that they didn't do any type of tribute to the recently departed Frankie Beverly.

 

 The city of New Orleans and most every Black person who's ever attended the Essence festival  knows Frankie Beverly and Maze were a permanent fixture there.

 

I have no idea of who owns and/or organizes the Essence festival nowadays. Reads like they need to tighten up or sell the brand to people who truly give a d8mn about it.

[Pioneer1]

On 7/10/2025 at 10:32 PM, ProfD said:

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/stephanie-mills-slams-2025-essence-fest-for-technical-issues/article_4ecee8b0-0bd0-4775-8aaa-3c0e1aadcde1.html

 

https://people.com/lauryn-hill-speaks-out-against-misconception-after-essence-festival-11768754

 

Both Stephanie Mills and Lauryn Hill performed at the Essence Festival this year amid technical difficulties. 

 

The festival *organizers* took ownership in dropping the ball leading to technical issues and late start times for performers.

 

Lauryn Hill was supposed to start around 12:30 a.m. Delays through no fault or her own pushed start time to 2:30 a.m. She finished performing an hour later to a nearly empty audience. 

 

In other Essence festival news, it's being reported that they didn't do any type of tribute to the recently departed Frankie Beverly.

 

 The city of New Orleans and most every Black person who's ever attended the Essence festival  knows Frankie Beverly and Maze were a permanent fixture there.

 

I have no idea of who owns and/or organizes the Essence festival nowadays. Reads like they need to tighten up or sell the brand to people who truly give a d8mn about it.

How can niggaz run a nation if they can't even manage an entertainment event?
.....and entertainment is where we shine!


I remember in earlier Nation of Islam days some of the Ministers, including Minister Farrakhan would PUBLICALLY scold the operators if the conditions at an event weren't coordinated properly.
If the microphone wasn't working properly.
If the air conditioning wasn't working properly.
If the power-point system wasn't keeping up with the Minister's lecture.

They would be PUBLICALLY scolded in front of the audience.
Their competence would be in question.

Some may think that's too harsh, but as I got older I realize what THEY already knew.....
They knew and understood many of our people have a laziness and sloppiness problem where they didn't take their work seriously and knew that FORCE and THREAT are the only ways to get some people to do the right thing.

If you don't show up to the White man's job on time or don't show up at all....the most he'll do is fire you.
You don't have your ass here on time to secure THIS event and we'll take you in a back room somewhere and have that head bouncing between the floor and a boot.

Sometimes you gotta MAKE a nigga act right or his laziness will get the best of him and he'll fuck up the program.

That's why a lot of our people do so good in the military.
The rules are crystal clear and so are the consequences for breaking them.
So you are FORCED to do what you're supposed to do.
....and guess what?
Black folks when they actually do what they're supposed to do actually do it BETTER than anybody else.

I think in North Korea the dictator has people killed over not doing their jobs properly and making events operate smoothly.
The Asians HAD a laziness problem but they solved a lot of it 100 or 200 years ago which is one of the reasons they are so advanced.
We could learn a lesson from them.

[ProfD]

4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

How can niggaz run a nation if they can't even manage an entertainment event?
.....and entertainment is where we shine!

Actually, it's Tethers who own and run the Essence festival now.