Sexyy Red‘s upcoming tour is getting a re-shuffle. The “Pound Town” rapper was originally slated to kick-off the U.S. outing in Seattle tonight (August 22), but according to Ticketmaster listings, the planned first gig at the WAMU Theater has been cancelled, with a note advising, “unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event.”
At press time no additional information was available about the cause of the cancellation and a spokesperson for the rapper had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment.
The tour is now slated to kick off on Saturday (August 24) at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The tour announced in June also initially included a gig on Friday (August 23) in Portland, OR, as well as as one on August 26 in Oakland, CA, neither of which are on the current roster of dates listed on the TM site. A gig in New Orleans on August 29 is also not currently on the schedule. According to Ticketmaster, a planned Sept. 30 appearance by Sexyy at the FedExForum in Memphis on Moneybagg Yo’s Larger Than Life tour has also been dropped from her tour routing.
Sexyy’s arena tour is slated to feature support from Hunxho, Loe Shimmy and fellow St. Louis native BlakeIANA.
At press time it did not appear that the rapper had acknowledged the tour kick-off switch-up on her socials, but a month ago she threw cold water on reports that her first arena tour was on the verge of cancellation due to reported low ticket sales. “My fans are buying tickets we’re doin just fine. We not cancelling no tour,” she wrote in response to a post suggesting her tour was in jeopardy after Touring Data said that as of July 3 less than 38% of tickets for the 24-date outing had been sold, with more than 85,000 reportedly still available at that time.
“Dis how Dey try to do u wen u go wit an independent promoter n the bigger companies try to sabotage u,” Red added in another post, in reference to her partnership with AG Entertainment. “We not cancelling sht.”
After breaking through last summer with the “Pound Town 2” remix with Tay Keith and Nicki Minaj — which hit No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100, Sexyy continued her chart run this year, with “Get It Sexyy” peaking at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.
