Eminem Rocks New Orleans' Voodoo Fest With First Full Concert of 2009

Rapper sounded strong as crowd braved the mud-soaked elements. By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting Matthew Bowes Eminem performs in New Orleans on Friday Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images Eminem fans braved mud, rain and high winds over the weekend to catch the rapper's only full concert of 2009 thus far. (He played a 35-minute set in Detroit in May.) Taking the stage at the Voodoo Festival on Friday night — nine years after his first appearance at the gathering — Slim Shady played with a full band (dressed in glow-in-the-dark skeleton costumes) for most of the set, hitting fans with a bevy of his biggest hits, opening with the homicidal "3 A.M." and asking fans, "Did you miss me? I missed you too, man. It's been a minute, huh, New Orleans?" The kind words likely did little to warm the crowd, which was standing in a mud bog created by an earlier downpour that afternoon, as well as temperatures that dipped below freezing by showtime, which ... (link)