Rappers Vs. Concert Promoters: A History Of Struggle
Rappers Vs. Concert Promoters: A History Of Struggle [Photos]
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Rappers and concert promoters have an interesting relationship. Both kinda’ need each other to survive, yet they always seem to clash.
If everything runs smoothly all parties end up satisfied. The concert promoter makes some money, the rapper makes money, the fans are happy, all is right with the rap world. But that’s not how it always goes down.
Promoters and rappers tend to be embroiled in struggle more often than not. And those discrepancies usually end up details in a lawsuit, or maybe a fight.
Take Sean Kingston for example. According to a promoter in L.A, he was roughed up by Kingston’s entourage because he didn’t pay up fast enough. If the story is true, Kingston’s situation is one of a bunch of business deals gone bad, and the promoter isn’t always the victim.
Check the gallery for a history of rapper vs. promoter struggles.
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Photos: WENN.com, Instagram
Check One-Two
Over a decade ago Trick Daddy and Petey Pablo got mixed up with a shady concert promoter by the name of John Moore. In January 2003, Moore was arrested for writing $100,000 in bad checks to Trick, Petey, promoters, and other people who were supposed to get paid from the “Thug Holiday” concert in Canton, Miss.
Dirty Mo
In 2010 a promoter claimed Nelly’s road manager threatened him and kidnapped his bodyguard. Nelly’s side is that the promoter didn’t keep his word. He later sued Dunn to get the extra $37,000 he was supposed to receive for the show.
Trouble In The Motherland
Back in 2011 negotations for a Nas New Year’s Eve gig in Angola fell through. The Queen MC didn’t make the trek to Africa and promoter Patrick Alloco claim that he and his son were kidnapped and held at gunpoint because he was a no-show.
Nas has been trying to get the lawsuit dismissed.
Double Up
Gucci booked two shows in two different states in one night. Last year, Empire Entertainment sued La Flare to recoup the $22,500 they paid him to perform in Arkansas and he never showed. They say he never showed up because he was at another show, in Tennessee.
The Chair
Don’t make Xzibit mad, if there’s disposable furniture around. In April “X to the Z” threw a chair at a promoter in Australia for treating his crew badly.
Duck & Dodge
Rick Ross has a lot of promoter troubles under his belt. Most recently, a promoter in London has been having trouble getting a hold of Rozay and MMG to serve him with a lawsuit stemming from a failed show across the pond.
Not So Much
Wiz Khalifa’s legal bout against a concert promoter did not go in his favor. Last August, he filed a $1 million lawsuit against It’s My Party Inc. for canceeling his performance at the last minute.
The “We Dem Boyz” rapper claimed the company owed him lost wages (he was supposed to get paid $85,000) and damaged his reputation, but there was one problem: he never signed a contract.
A judge threw the suit out.
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