TDE rapper ScHoolboy Q believes the opening night time of his “Blue Lips Weekend” tour — a 18-date trek in assist of his sixth studio LP — in Toronto was purposefully canceled as a consequence of his allegiance to Kendrick Lamar in his public battle with Drake.
Schoolboy has been part of TDE and Lamar’s camp for years, and naturally, he appeared in Lamar’s latest video for his broadly standard Drake diss observe, “Not Like Us.” Not solely that, Schoolboy additionally appeared as a particular visitor for Lamar’s Juneteenth live performance — dubbed “The Pop Out” and headlined by “Ken & Friends.”
The TDE rapper was scheduled to carry out in Drake’s hometown in Toronto on July 18 with a sold-out live performance at Historical past, a 2553-capacity membership that Drake helped design with world promoter Stay Nation.
After the present was abruptly canceled, Schoolboy urged the present was cancelled by Canadian Police who “don’t need no one from TDE performing.” “They only cancelled my present in Toronto,” he wrote on X on July 17. “Canadian police don’t need no one from TDE performing.”
The Toronto Police Division denies the live performance was cancelled as a consequence of security issues. In a press release shared with Selection, a spokesperson for division mentioned, “the choice to cancel this occasion was made by the venue, not by the Toronto Police Service.”
Representatives for Schoolboy, Drake and Historical past in Toronto didn’t instantly return Selection‘s requests for remark.
Regardless of expressing a transparent frustration over the scenario, Schoolboy’s messaging carried a light-hearted tone as he poked enjoyable at his function within the “Not Like Us” video. “Really I get it,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Nvm tHis sHit [lowkey] Hilarious… Iono wHy dot [Lamar] put me in tHat fucking video.”
Schoolboy didn’t dwell on the subject for lengthy, however concluded by revealing Anthony “Prime Dawg” Tiffith, CEO of the indie label TDE, had met up with Lil Wayne on the YouTube Leaders & Legends Gala, and that OVO artist Partynextdoor had simply carried out in Los Angeles — the homebase for all TDE artists. “If we needed to get y’all we’d’ve simply did it,” he wrote. “Now when someone will get harm, don’t cry.”
