Kat Lane and Snoop Dogg Tag Team Sakred On A Tuesday

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Snoop Dogg came to kick off the grand opening of Sakred nightclub in Boca Raton last night. The place soft opened a few weeks back and if you’ve never heard of it, it’s because their marketing has been practically non-existent. It’s tucked away on the first floor of a professional office building (which also houses my old orthodontist) at the intersection of Powerline and Palmetto, with no visible signage from the road or parking lot. The website is lackluster in stark contrast to the lavish and elegant description it attempts to convey and the club’s address can only be found obscured in the text on the “News” page – you’d think the owners were trying to keep the place hidden.

After spotting the valet and managing to find the entrance, we made a b-line for the patio to grab some drinks. Except there was no tender for the outside bar that already had a dozen people gathered around it. The website claimed the club could host up to 1,000 and the early turnout was pretty sparse, which probably had something to do with the fact that game 6 of the NBA finals was also on. There were a couple of girls on stage painting portraits of Snoop and Tupac, who would have been celebrating his 44th birthday.

Kat Lane took the decks at 10. She’s a DJ out of Miami and has recently played shows alongside Dash Berlin, Steve Aoki and Dada Life at Passion out at the Hard Rock and holds mix spots on several South and Central Florida radio stations. She picked a solid track selection of old school and west coast rap, from Dre’s “The Watcher” to O.T. Genesis’ “CoCo” that went well with the theme of the night.

Kat Lane & Snoop Dogg
Kat Lane & Snoop Dogg

Kat has a residency at Sakred, spinning there two nights per month and would be a reason to go back. Her set was the best of the night and was followed by DJ Epps of 103.5 The Beat, but not before one of the bottle girls got on stage and butchered Rihanna’s “Where have you been”. Epps would play a song for 15-20 seconds, cut it off, shout if everyone was ready for Snoop Dogg and start another song. He killed an hour doing this while Snoop finished watching the game backstage and more people trickled into the club.

The doggfather, coming to us as DJ Snoopadelic (on the 1’s and 2’s), strolled out in a pair of shades with a blunt tucked behind his ear, flanked by a pair of security guards that could have passed for the black versions of The Hound and The Mountain as he took the decks around 12:30. He started off with “Still D.R.E.” and promptly sparked his blunt as everyone’s phones came out to document the rare instance of Snoop Dogg smoking weed. He cut in and out of newer songs like Fetty Wop’s “Trap Queen” and Kendrick’s “Swimming Pools” and classics like Too Short’s “Blow The Whistle”. It was entertaining for what it was, but anyone expecting an actual Snoop Dogg performance would have left disappointed. At one point he invited some sexy ladies up on stage to dance and about a half dozen accepted the invitation, including one very well-put together Boca mom who relished every second she spent shaking her stuff on stage.

Everyone shooting Snoop smoking
Everyone shooting Snoop smoking

Like some of the people there, one of whom picked out his finest tank top to wear that night, the club suffers from an identity crisis and lack of originality. The general approach, from the outfits to the layout and setup, rips a page from the Miami playbook: fishnet and leotard-clad bartenders served overpriced drinks and delivered champagne bottles with sparklers to crowded VIP areas. There’s just that little je ne sais quoi that’s lost to the fact you have to walk into the lobby of an office building before entering the club. Still, if you’re looking for a suitable alternative to Blue Martini to turn up in Boca, Sakred might be up your alley.

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