As the lights brightened and the people on the other side of the fence shrieked, LaQunda Kendricks pressed her mint green Chuck Taylors on top of a guardrail, lifted herself a couple feet higher off the ground and wrapped her right arm around the streetlight for balance.
She craned her neck. Then, she looked back at her friends.
“He’s here!” she said.
A couple hundred feet away, on a stage erected this week for a super secret concert that most people in town found out about by Tuesday, R&B singer Usher strutted toward the crowd.
“Yeah!” he yelled. “Yeah! How y’all feeling tonight? We come together because we’re stronger together.”