[Tablo] For me, I mean all of the shows were amazing, but there there are certain cities that like will stick with me
[Tablo] I think one of them is Brussels, in Europe.
[Tablo] You remember Brussels?
[Eddie] Yeah. Oh, I remember Brussels
[Tablo] Okay. Well Brussels,
[Tablo] Thank you to everyone that came. Uh,
[Eddie] Thank you so much
[Tablo] Thank you so so much
*everyone chuckles*
[Tablo] Um, there was an issue, okay
[Tablo] So what happened with the Europe tour is that we originally planned only to do Paris, London, and
[Eddie] Amsterdam [Tablo] Amsterdam.
[Tablo] Those were the only three cities that we were gonna do
[Eddie] Sold out like this
[Tablo] Yeah, and we announced and the cities were selling just like crazy.
[Eddie] hotcakes.
[Tablo] Yeah, and they were big venues and
[Tablo] So I guess um, the promoter was like "Dude! Europe loves Epik High"
[Tablo] "let's add more cities" because you know, that's usually what you do
[Tablo] and um
[Tablo] You know
[Tablo] So we decided to add certain cities and usually when you add cities later on it's very hard to get the word out
[Tablo] Because people assume that um, people like pay attention during the first, you know, announcement
[Eddie] shebang [Tablo] yeah, so it's hard to get the word out and uhm
[Tablo] Brussels was one of those cities that was added on and
[Tablo] So we get there, um
[Tablo] We get to the venue and the venue is amazing
[Eddie] Sick [Tablo] okay, we get there for rehearsals
[Tablo] and this is like one of the most beautiful cities
[Tablo] and one of the most beautiful stages I have ever seen, they
[Tablo] They went overboard with the stage
[Tablo] like
[Tablo] Production here 'cause first of all, it's not just a big stage
[Tablo] There are stairs!
[Tablo] Right? To each side of the stage. It's like on the stage
[Tablo] there's these beautiful like, Disney Princess like
[Tablo] coronation like, you know like, Scarface is
[Tablo] the movie Scarface and the
[Tablo] Final scene with the stairs like, that kind of setting, where there are stairs that lead from the second floor down
[Tablo] So the stage is like a two floor stage, right? It's amazing
[Eddie] It's one of those stages that like when you guys scouted the venue
[Eddie] Everyone was like high-fiving like it's gonna be lit *chuckles* [Eddie] We're like dude. Dude, check out those stairs!
[Tablo] imagine us coming down those stairs at the beginning, right?
[Tablo] And every artist, like every performer loves stairs
[Tablo] Because they can make the big intro like coming down the stairs. Like imagine a Beyonce show, right? *boom*
[Tablo] Starts and she's like slowly walking down the stairs and everyone's like loving it, right?
[Tablo] And obviously we're gonna use it
[Tablo] uh and then
[Tablo] the problem was that um
[Tablo] when this show was starting we had to wait on the second floor to come down the stairs once the music starts
[Tablo] and when you're up there, um, there's a wall so that the audience can't see you and vice versa. You can't see the audience
[Tablo] so
[Tablo] Yeah, so right before the show Eddie's like okay it's time for you guys to go up
[Tablo] And I'm like, how's the crowd? How's the crowd and he's like, dude
[Tablo] He say "it's it's amazing. The crowd is great!" He's like "it's gonna be a great show". So we're like, "oh yeah!"
[Tablo] Even though we added this city late and couldn't get the word out
[Tablo] people came
[Tablo] Awesome, Brussels. Yeah, and then we get up there. We, the security takes us upstairs.
[Tablo] Um. We get to the second floor. We're behind the wall the stairs on our side
[Tablo] so Mithra and I are supposed to walk down
[Tablo] A set of stairs each as soon as the music starts right? Tukutz is down there already, and I'm, we're like behind the wall
[Tablo] I'm like "Mithra this is gonna be awesome" because we can hear the, we can hear the crowd
[Eddie] super loud [Tablo] and they're super loud
[Tablo] Like they're pumped and we're like "oh man it's gonna be awesome"
[Tablo] Tukutz starts the music and
[Tablo] It's, it's our song called 'In Seoul' and it's a very like moody, cool kind of song where like you can kind of like
[Tablo] you know strut down the stairs
[Tablo] and
[Tablo] Right before my rap part, I start walking down, Mithra starts walking now
[Tablo] We leave the wall
[Tablo] step on our first couple steps and then look over very cool, like
[Tablo] at the audience
[Tablo] and
[Tablo] In front of my eyes
[Tablo] Big venue and uh
[Tablo] There's about like four rows in front of the stage
[Tablo] just packed and
[Tablo] behind them this huge empty space
[Tablo] that is
[Tablo] Even more visible because I am way up there
[Diane] *laughs*
[Tablo] Way up there on, on this huge flight of steps, right?
[Eddie] it's a lot of carpet you can see
[Tablo] And uh, I'm like, "yes, sir. No King. No, Queen, no court jester", and I'm like walking down the stairs and it's a long walk down
[Tablo] and I'm just like
[Tablo] oh, it was
[Tablo] It was devastating [Diane] *laughs*
[Tablo] I can't really describe the shock
[Tablo] because when, because not only was I, you know, just, just
[Tablo] looking at this, I was trying to look as cool as possible
[Tablo] and I turn and I see this, and I had to see that for like 33 steps down
[Tablo] and uh
[Tablo] I, I have to say thank you to all the people that showed up like, we love you, and
[Eddie] Right. Thank you so much
[Tablo] and Brussels and they made up for for the empty space because
[Tablo] that crowd that was actually there, they were amazing. [Eddie] it was lit
[Tablo] Yeah, it was really fun but um, just the shock and also the thought in my mind like, "what??"
[Tablo] "wh- Eddie"
[Tablo] "What??" He made it sound like it was packed
[Eddie] That's right. [Tablo] Uh, what happened there dude?
[Eddie] So that was just one of those moments that uh, I didn't know what to say, right because you asked me specifically
[Eddie] How is it? And I said yeah, you know, they're super loud like, they're amazing and that's true
[Tablo] Mm-hmm. They were! They were amazing
[Eddie] So, right right, so I didn't say oh it's a full house or anything like that. You know, I was just
[Eddie] sTrAteGicAlly aMbiGuOus
[Diane] *laughs*
[Tablo] Yeah
[Eddie] and you know I just
[Eddie] I can't tell you that
[Eddie] you know, it's
[Eddie] It's not packed.
[Tablo] Eric went there to perform
[Tablo] Uh
[Tablo] After we did right and he sent me a picture of the stairs. He's like "Tablo thinking of you".
[Eddie] *chuckles* [Diane] *laughs*
[Tablo] I will never forget the set of stairs dude, it's a great venue.
[Eddie] Oh, it's beautiful [Tablo] Beautiful venue
[Tablo] It was a great show too! Brussels, we love you. [Eddie] it was a great show, yeah
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