Donnell Rawlings

Recently I did lights for Donnell Rawlings and some ripped tall guy showed up in a Rolls Royce wearing the Chappelle chain they all wear. He must have been Rawling’s manager or TM or something.

The guy approached me and the sound guy and made it sound like he would give us a flashy amount of money as a tip. People do tip at this job periodically, sometimes before the show sometimes after. He was saying like “I’ll really make it worth yalls while” kinda stuff clearly to make us think we were getting paid. We both separately understood we were gonna get tipped out big.

So I went above and beyond, Donnell went 30 minutes over ranting about nothing, afterwards the sound guy and I wait around onstage while the Rawlings guys party in the green room. We wait for a while, the manager finally walks past us clearly waiting for him and just ices us out. We go out to smoke, watch him get in his Rolls right next to us, Donnell gets in the passenger seat and they drive off without a word.

Nothing like that has ever happened to me - What a scumbag!

Edit: this one really brought out the most sane and sensible of the Donnell Rawlings fans. It is not that big of a deal I just thought it was funny, but no we did not fuck up, I’m perfectly aware when I’ve fucked up