r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 14 '26

article Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage Statements

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-pro-palestine-statements-1235625967/
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u/dange616 Sep 14 '26

Not to mention actually operate and book many of the concert venues they play.

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u/LumpyPhilosopher8 Sep 14 '26

I really want them to release the venues that forced this. Was it the ones owned by Ticketmaster or independents?
Yes Ticketmaster is evil - but were they actually behind this. Then we know who to boycott

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u/BussyPalace Sep 14 '26

Macklemore's IG statement provides more details.

TLDR: Robert Kraft (of the Patriots and owner of Gillette Stadium) personally told Ed that he would not be allowed to perform at his stadium if Macklemore was part of the tour. Kraft also rounded up his other stadium owning billionaires to prohibit Macklemore from performing at their venues as well for the remainder of Ed's tour. Keep Macklemore and Ed's tour dates at those venues would be cancelled.

So Ed bent the knee to Kraft and Co.

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u/sumptin_wierd Sep 14 '26

money corrupts everything

and I am listening to dirty money by clipse haha

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u/sumptin_wierd Sep 14 '26

that guy that gets happy endings at massage parlors.

fuck Kraft

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u/Knotted_Hole69 Sep 14 '26

Yeah, ill be avoiding them for this.

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u/BBC-dont-show-BBC Sep 15 '26

So Craft will go after Mackelmore for a statement but he bends over and let's Putin steal one of his Super Bowl rings as he watches.

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u/shaqwillonill Sep 14 '26

The venues that allegedly objected to the rapper include: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta; Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

The article blames Robert Kraft who would definitely have sway over all these venues as they are all NFL stadiums

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u/mschley2 Sep 15 '26

Lol so it was specifically all of the NFL owners

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u/excellentforcongress Sep 15 '26

it would be very unfortunate if there was a mass boycott of all major privately owned stadiums, the nfl, livenation, ticketmaster, private equity, and anything owned by any billionaires, and people abandoned all sports leagues controlled by billionaires, and allowed all of those stadiums to go bankrupt and get claimed by their respective local communities, where teams who are cooperatively owned could play, in leagues that are owned by the general public, and refused corporate advertising dollars, and ticket master live nation went bankrupt and everyone had to go to venues owned by cooperatives, with ticket sales handled by cooperatives, and all of those cooperatives actually cared about protecting human life

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Sep 15 '26

Boycotting Ticketmaster would be like boycotting most live music. They even run many small shows

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u/sumptin_wierd Sep 16 '26

billionaires is who you boycott

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u/sumptin_wierd Sep 14 '26

you don't have to be a shill

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u/LumpyPhilosopher8 Sep 14 '26

How am I being a shill?

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u/CasperTheHomosexualF Sep 15 '26

And manage the artists. Vertical integration, baby.