The I Love the '90s Tour is the latest in a wave of nostalgia-based entertainment that is so on trend right now. Stopping in Kalamazoo at the Wings Event Center last night, it raised the actual roof and made a few more of my childhood dreams come true (and then today I learned that they're coming here to Grand Rapids in October!).

With performances from Young MC, Tone Loc, Coolio, Color Me Badd, All-4-One and the incomparable Salt-N-Pepa, it was literally 1993 for about three hours on a Thursday night. It was a real life throwback Thursday that I’ll relive through 30-second snapchat videos for all of eternity.

I was only 6-years-old when the '90s began, so my knowledge of rappers like Tone Loc and Young MC is limited to the chorus of “Funky Cold Medina” and “Bust a Move” (that one song Young MC does) that are actually from the late '80s, if you want to split decade-authenticity hairs. Aside from enthusiastically sing-shouting the aforementioned choruses, these first two acts were a bit of a blur to me.

Coolio took the stage after one of the smoothest and quickest transitions I’ve ever seen at a big-ticket concert and jumped right into “Fantastic Voyage”, “1-2-3-4” and the reason I almost became an inner-city high school English teacher, “Gangsta’s Paradise”. I was shocked and confused to see that he no longer had his signature “Crazy Eyes from ‘Orange is the New Black’” hairdo, but delighted to see him Crip-walking all over the stage with reckless abandon. Took me back to a time when I never learned how to Crip-walk.

Color Me Badd and All-4-One were a smorgasbord of formulaically smooth R&B crooners, and like the others, stuck to the hits they were sure the audience would know.  “I Wanna Sex You Up” got the crowd bumping and grinding just like they did in middle school and All-4-One’s “I Swear” made me start swaying romantically against my will. I was halfway to the bathroom when I heard the first notes of “I Can Love You Like That”, so I re-absorbed the need to pee and ran back to my seat to revel in memories of being 11-years-old and forming cliques for the first time.

After the foreplay of sultry R&B songs, we were ready for the queens to hit the stage. Salt-N-Pepa (and Spinderella, of course) burst into action with such energy that I googled their ages right there. They’re my parents’ age. Which is just…unreal.

They absolutely slayed with back to back (to front, to front) high-energy and high-sexuality hits like “Shoop”, “Whatta Man” and “Let’s Talk About Sex”, and by the time “Push It” came out of their mouths, I was dropping it like it was lukewarm and pulling muscles I was not aware of. Usually I just do that “Jump! Jump!” thing where I pretend to jump but it’s mostly just arms and light bouncing. But Salt-N-Pepa made me jump. They made me Shoop. And they certainly made me Push It. P-Push it real good.

If you missed the Kalamazoo show, do not fear. Like I said before, they're coming to Van Andel Arena on October 8, and it's a whole new lineup! Salt-N-Pepa, All For One, and Tone Loc will still be part of the lineup, but Vanilla Ice, Kid N Play, and Rob Base will be joining them for their GR stop.

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