“You’re giving me Soundset vibes.”

So said Slug to a crowd of 12,306 at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Saturday night. And that stood to reason, for the Minneapolis-reared rapper born Sean Daley – half of the duo, Atmosphere – was standing mere blocks from where the hip-hop festival he helped found spent many a Memorial Day weekend: The State Fairgrounds’ Midway area.

One could say that Saturday’s show was something like a smaller-scale Soundset, which usually hosted dozens of acts and about 30,000 people and was last presented in 2019. Atmosphere was a Soundset constant, and the acts that preceded them to the stage had all played that festival at least once: Their fellow act from local label Rhymesayers, DJ Abilities, the reunited and perpetually light-hearted Pharcyde, charismatic

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