🎶 2022-08-31 00:19:04 – Paris/France.
A concert by controversial rapper DaBaby scheduled for Friday, September 2 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans has been canceled.
Before Ticketmaster's seating chart for the concert went down on Tuesday, it showed virtually no advance tickets had been sold, even though they were priced as low as $35.
The number of tickets sold appeared to be less than 500 for an arena with a concert capacity of 14 or more.
Faced with the prospect of potentially losing hundreds of thousands of dollars if DaBaby performed in a nearly empty arena, the show's promoter apparently decided to cut its losses and cancel the show.
Jonathan Kirk, better known as DaBaby, broke out with two full albums in 2019. His debut, “Baby on Baby,” yielded the hit “Suge,” while the follow-up, “Kirk,” contained “Intro.” and “Bop. 2020's "Blame It On Baby" contained the No. 1 single "Rockstar," a collaboration with Roddy Ridch.
But even though DaBaby achieved chart success, he also shot himself in the foot. He was involved in a few actual shootings, one of which resulted in death.
Then, in the summer of 2021, he made comments on stage at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami that were widely seen as homophobic. As a result, DaBaby was delisted from several other festivals last year, including Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and Governors Ball. His apologies without apologies didn't help much.
He has since embarked on his own headlining tour. But if what happened in New Orleans is any indication, his live performing career is at a tough time.
The now-canceled show's bill also included Dutch electronic music duo Showtek and Alabama-born rapper NoCap, who released his first full-length album, "Mr. Crawford," in April through the Baton-based label. NBA Youngboy Red, Never Broke Again.
In the video for DaBaby's recent single "Tough Skin," the rapper is shown hanging from a cross while being pelted with bricks and attacked with a flamethrower, while remaining unharmed.
DaBaby's cancellation follows the last-minute postponement of Lil Wayne's Lil WeezyAna Fest at Champions Square from August 27 to October 29.
But unlike DaBaby's show, Lil WeezyAna Fest was sold out.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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