In 2022, New Orleans rapper Rob49 was a special guest at Lil Wayne’s annual Lil WeezyAna Fest. That same year, he launched his own multiartist event, the Vulture Island Experience, at The Fillmore.
As Rob49’s career took off, he moved the 2024 Vulture Island Experience to the Smoothie King Center. Filling that particular venue held special meaning for him.
Back when he was a boy named Robert Thomas, he and an uncle would walk from the Iberville housing development to sell water outside the Smoothie King Center before Pelicans games…