It was a MASSIVE crowd for Essence 2018 but I met ...

It was a MASSIVE crowd for Essence 2018 but I met Mary J Blige and Vivica Fox here!
The was a lot of activity and plenty of space to accommodate it all... massive amounts of vendors with booths set up everywhere... the drawback was the food.
The vendor we went to sold BAD seafood and we all threw up. The "soft shell crabs" were hard! And when we ate them, it tasted like ammonia inside! The conch was disgusting and dough-like and the shrimp were the only saving grace. Poor uber driver... I let her car have it! That's not the convention centers fault tho, but it was my experience here.