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The day is young

Voices from the early arrivals

A few moments after the gates opened, Matt Rego and his roommate Jack Abrams were standing in the front-row by the Rocky stage. They expected to be in that spot wel into the night. The Temple students wound up about 200th in line Saturday morning, which required that they show up about 11:30 a.m.

"Matt loves Kanye West and I'm here to support him," Abrams  offered.

The roomies have a poster of Kanye hanging in their dorn room. Over Rego's bed.

"Kanye is my influence," said Rego, who is 19 and from Providence, like Abrams. "I look up to him. People think he's dumb, but he's inspiring."

A bonus that came with admission to Temple, they said, was the fact the Made in America festival is held Labor Days in Philadelphia.

They hit the big shows - Beyonce and Jay-Z in Foxboro, Tyler the Creator at the House of Blues in Boston. That last one was special.

"He used my inhaler," Rego said. "We're both asthmatic. It was awesome. The best moment of my life."

The day is young.