Saturday night was full of amazing shows, but the late night HipHop went above & beyond my expectations … and no, I’m not talking about Kanye West.

At 1:30am Lupe Fiasco hit that stage in ‘The Other Tent.’ If anyone in that audience was losing steam and getting sleepy they were jolted back into action the moment Lupe stepped on stage. His performance of ‘Daydream’ had everyone singing along and the crowd went nuts as he and his back up singers slowly laid down on stage to enhance the mood.

He went out in style with his hit ‘SuperStar’ and had me fooled when a mohawk-ed Adam Levine look alike stepped on stage and sang the chorus!

And then it was time for Talib, who kept it simple with a DJ and some incredibly talented back up singers. His performance was the perfect compliment to Lupe’s fiasco.

OurStage camera man, Andrew Bertino, was willing to lose a little sleep to grab the money shot of Talib’s performance.

After I had my ears (happily) blown out by Talib and Lupe, I joined Press Project pals Cap and Iyeoka for the Chali 2na show. Above is a blurry but cool shot of Cap as we were chillin behind the sound booth.

While I would have loved to see Kanye’s set (which was scheduled for 2:45am) he hadn’t even gone on by FOUR in the morning. I’m not sure if he was waiting for more fans to come over or what – but from what I heard he performed a pretty short set to a pretty sparse crowd. This little ‘typically Kayne’ stunt landed him on the bad side of a LOT of Bonnaroo fans, several of whom walked around with Kanye ‘Sux’ signs during the day on Sunday. While I don’t approve of his shifting the schedules to get the main stage OR his late night push out – I still got love for my man Mr. West and hope he makes a future attempt to set it right at Bonnaroo.

All in all it was a LONG but great night. With a full day looming for Sunday we headed back to the hotel and passed out the moment our heads hit the pillow.