Skillibeng brings Bad Man She Love tour to Oakland with Moliy

Skillibeng’s Bad Man She Love Tour reached Oakland on June 24 with Moliy attached, and the Cry Baby Oakland stop stood out because Skillibeng said it marked the first-ever live performance of Shake It to the Max in the city. Tickets were already live through his tour site, but the real draw was the Bay-first version of a record that had already crossed over.

That made the booking feel bigger than a standard club night in Oakland, where Caribbean music and culture already have a deep local lane. Oakland Carnival at Mosswood Park has drawn Oakland’s African diaspora and other communities for music, dance, capoeira and elaborate costumes, and the city’s Uptown nightlife corridor has long been a fit for shows that mix dancehall and Afrobeats energy.

The record behind the booking had already hit a major milestone. The Moliy and Silent Addy remix of Shake It to the Max (Fly), featuring Shenseea and Skillibeng, was certified Gold in the U.S. on Feb. 23, 2026 after passing 500,000 units in sales and streaming-equivalent units. That gave the Oakland stop the feel of a crossover celebration as much as a tour date, with Moliy’s presence tying the live show directly to the track that helped push both artists further into the wider market.

Crybaby matched the scale of the moment. The 400-capacity nightclub opened in March 2021 inside the former Uptown Nightclub building as a 21-and-up independent venue, a close-room setup that kept the crowd on top of the set and made the first Oakland Shake It to the Max performance feel like a scene, not a stop. In a room that size, Skillibeng and Moliy did not need a theater to make the point: this was the kind of Bay Area booking that lands because the song already did the work.