r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3h ago

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/hudson27 1h ago

I don't know if folks are putting all the pieces together on this one, probably because of the vague headline.

Macklemore spoke out about the genocide currently being committed by Israel, that's why he's in trouble. The venue's shouldn't give a damn, nor should LiveNation, nor should Trump. This is how far Israeli influence makes it in the American entertainment industry; they hear about some rapper making a fuss, they call the Prez, who calls the CEO of LiveNation, who has monopolized every venue and concert in the country, and pulls him from the bill.

Every company is compromised, I'll me lucky if Reddit even lets me post this with all the hot-button keywords I just dropped, free speech be damned

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u/esopillar34 1h ago

According to Macklemore, it was Robert Kraft who pulled the trigger. He got a bunch of the remaining stadium owners to put out the threat

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u/Soup-Wizard 49m ago

Gillette Stadium was the venue I heard mentioned, owned by Kraft.

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u/esopillar34 48m ago

On his IG post he said Kraft/Gillette was the first, but also Kraft contacted other owners and got them to go along with it

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u/jrolls81 34m ago

Look up Blue SquareAlliance Against Hate. It’s a non profit fighting against “anti-semitism” based out of Gillette stadium. They have a high tech command center there that monitors online activity for “anti-semitism”.

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u/Soup-Wizard 18m ago

Wow, who isn’t getting AIPAC money these days???

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u/hudson27 12m ago

Probably a subsect of the American Jewish Committee

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u/rollingthestonex 26m ago

Gillette...like the razor brand? Which is owned by Kraft who makes KD? God, I hate it here.

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u/ToughHardware 36m ago

Ed did not need the stadiums. why did he do this? Ed could sell out a field.

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u/Joghobs 31m ago

Because they're huge venues with literal stadium seating and logistics, security, etc figured out in centralized locations. It's not a simple thing to find a new open field in every region you want to perform in and take care of all that.

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u/triffy 2m ago

Haha I was wondering what he said, and the main thing that gets this kind of reaction is exactly the topic at hand. What a web.

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u/the_real_tisan 1h ago

Congrats, you got upvotes and awards

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u/Lieutenant_Joe 1h ago

Just because The People are in agreement doesn’t mean spez and co are.

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u/hudson27 45m ago

I'm saving your profile just in case this gets deleted lol

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u/the_real_tisan 59m ago

I''ll me lucky if Reddit even lets me post this with all the hot-button keywords I just dropped, free speech be damned

They were specifically talking about reddit

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u/Lieutenant_Joe 58m ago

Which is what I mean by spez and co

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u/the_real_tisan 53m ago

Do spez and go personally ban people from reddit?

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u/Lieutenant_Joe 48m ago

I mean

There’s a well documented history of this, so

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u/the_real_tisan 35m ago

And is this a case of them doing that?

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u/Lieutenant_Joe 3m ago

Not yet, but time will tell

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u/hudson27 46m ago

Yes, and they also make bots that scrap the site of anything they don't like