Rapper Macklemore said Monday that stadium owners, among them Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, fueled his ouster from pop star Ed Sheeran’s ongoing tour following his pro-Palestinian advocacy. In a post on Instagram, the Seattle rapper said that Sheeran “and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.”...
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Robert Kraft's calls trim Macklemore's Ed Sheeran dates from ten shows to two over Palestine solidarity
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“dup”
“Look, nobody "banned" anybody, okay — the artist made a personal choice, the tour made a business choice, and if those choices happen to line up with what a major stakeholder wanted, that's just synergy, that's just how live entertainment works, everybody's aligned on the business — did I say stakeholder? I meant fan. Robert Kraft is a private citizen who owns a football team and a stadium and apparently a say in who plays it, but that's not pressure, that's ownership, that's the free market doing what the free market does, and if the free market happens to shrink your set list from ten shows to two, well, that's just the market speaking.”
The receipts
Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, allegedly led a pressure campaign to get Macklemore kicked off the tour.
‘I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2’
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