Before the pandemic, Yung Baby Tate was a consummate performer. Before she was putting immersive summer camp-inspired concerts with Red Bull or doing splits at Rolling Loud Miami 2019, the singer-rapper-songwriter-producer had been honing her live performance skills since the third grade and attended the 38th annual Grammy Award in 1996 in the stomach of her pregnant mother, singer Dionne Farris, who was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance nomination for her hit “I Know.” Being outside on stage has been part of Tate's life for as long as she can remember, a reality she seldom got to revisit prior to her performance at Lyrical Lemonade's Summer Smash festival on August 22, her first festival performance in nearly two years. While she is anxious to return to normal, she is not disregarding how COVID-19 is still prevalent and should be taken seriously.
"I love to perform, so going a year, almost two without performing was definitely kinda sad. I kinda want things to go back to normal, but I know it’s not that easy. Niggas got to get vaccinated and all types of shit for shows. I understand because it’s for safety precautions we have to take because this is our reality right now," Tate told Mic.
