UPDATED 10/21, 11:45Â a.m. ET:Â Fivio Foreign claims that his subpar performance at Barclays earlier this week wasnât his fault.
âThatâs not really my production team. That was a different team I donât use all the time,â he told TMZ. âI did the soundcheck, shit was good at soundcheck. I just gotta use my production team from now on.â
When asked if it was Barclaysâ fault, Fivio replied, âYeah, it wasnât mine. ⌠I fuck with Barclays andâŚI wouldnât want to let Brooklyn down. Iâma have to redo that shit.â He explained that while he did have in-ear monitors, they were âlower than the crowdâ so he couldnât hear.
In response to people criticizing his performance, Fivio said that people came for him when he didnât perform well at one of Kanye Westâs Donda listening events. âSome same type of shit happenedâŚshit was off. So I wasnât really tripping. ⌠The sound was just off. I was hearing it at one time and it was coming out at another time.â
See original story from 10/20/22 below.
Fivio Foreignâs performance at the Brooklyn Netsâ home opener on Tuesday left something to be desired.Â
The Brooklyn native took to center court during halftime to perform a medley of his songs âSay My Name,â âCity of Gods,â and âBig Drip.â But thanks to some obvious technical difficulties, his delivery was delayed and he was rapping off-cue.Â
As TMZ points out, some fans blamed the audio crew at Barclays, while others said the rapper needs to step his game up.
T.I. pointed out in a comment that Fivio should have been using in-ear monitors rather than house speakers because the room was âtoo big.â
Unfortunately, to add insult to injury, the Nets ended up losing to the New Orleans Pelicans 130-108.
This wasnât the first time Fivio experienced technical difficulties during a performance. When he performed during Kanyeâs Donda show, his mic was out of sync as well.Â
Fivio recently released a freestyle over the beat for DJ Khaledâs âGod Did,â lamenting how he was left off of Khaledâs latest album. âKhaled ainât call me for the album, that hurt me inside/On my album he did a skit called âGod Did,â then dropped an album called God Did.â Fivio also hopped on FNF Chopâs new song and accompanying video for âRepeatâ in late September.