Pitbull Sets Guinness Record With 22,141 Bald-Capped Fans in Hyde Park

On a sweltering Friday in London's Hyde Park, more than twenty-two thousand people chose to become, for an afternoon, the same person — bald cap, aviators, goatee — and in doing so, wrote themselves into the record books alongside the artist they came to celebrate. Pitbull, the Miami rapper who has long inspired a peculiar and joyful tradition of fan imitation, stood before this mirror-image crowd and received the first-ever Guinness World Record for the largest assembly of people wearing bald caps. It is a small and luminous thing: the human desire not merely to witness an artist, but to inha