Kendrick Lamar Fans Literally Shed Tears Over His Astronomical Ticket Prices For SZA Tour

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Kendrick Lamar will astonish a lot of fans in attendance for his "Grand National" stadium tour with SZA across major North American cities, but the duo is going to leave a lot of people out in the process. Moreover, demand for these shows is incredibly high, and paired with Ticketmaster's price-inflating demand policies and CashApp presale exclusivity, this makes for a situation in which tickets are now very expensive. Fans have shared their reactions online, and there's a lot of pessimistic reality checks and literally teared-up disillusionment to talk about. We completely understand both sides, although this shouldn't really come as much surprise all things considered.

After all, we're right in the middle of the hype cycle for Kendrick Lamar's new album GNX, plus whatever SZA has on the horizon with Lana. The Drake battle this year also really amped up excitement for these shows, and fans are reading perhaps too deeply into the second Toronto show that they added to the schedule. So this was always going to be an impossible tour to snag tickets for, as much as we'd love to live in a different reality.

Kendrick Lamar & SZA Fans Are Crying Over Their Tour Ticket Prices And We Can't Blame Them

Still, it's amazing to see that Mr. "Taylor Made" and the singer who Taylor Swift snubbed last year at the Grammys are garnering Swiftie levels of demand and hype. Even if Kendrick Lamar and SZA can't really do much to make ticket-snagging easier for fans, we're confident that they will carry themselves with this responsibility in mind on stage. In the few months we have left until the "Grand National" trek kicks off, we have a Super Bowl halftime show to witness and probably more continued success for GNX – and hopefully Lana, if it does drop before or during the tour dates.

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Meanwhile, all this success and conversation resulted in a lot of negativity online, especially towards Kendrick Lamar. Andrew Schulz is currently reckoning with the culture's backlash to his comments about assaulting K.Dot in reaction to his GNX diss. OVO continues to rally against Kendrick's camp, and fans are in tears over these ticket prices. It's all a heavy burden, but one that these artists have almost always handled with grace all things considered.

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Megan Thee Stallion Producer LilJuMadeDaBeat Complains About Spotify Payouts

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LilJuMadeDaBeat, the producer best known for his work with Megan Thee Stallion, is apparently not happy with your Spotify Wrapped — or anyone’s, for that matter.

On Wednesday (December 4), the day that Spotify dropped its popular year-end summaries, the Texas beatmaker shared a message on X that explained why Spotify was his least-favorite streamer.

“I hate that yall actually use Spotify instead of literally ANY other streaming service. They pay us the least,” he wrote.

Check it out below.

 

Spotify dropped a number of year-end statistics this past week, including its most-streamed artists globally for the year — and the highest-ranking rapper on the list was Drake.

He was fourth overall, behind Taylor SwiftThe Weeknd and Bad Bunny. The other rappers in the top 10 were Travis Scott (no. 6) and Kanye West (no. 8).

Drake was also the service’s most-streamed rapper in the U.S., and second overall behind Swift. His rival Kendrick Lamar was seventh on that list, behind Swift, Drake, Zach Bryan, Morgan Wallen, Kanye and Future.

When it comes to Apple Music, Kendrick had a notable upper hand, as his Drake diss “Not Like Us” was the most-played track of the year worldwide.

The streaming service made the announcement on Tuesday (November 3), as it rolled out its “Top Songs of 2024: Global” playlistShaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was fourth, while Post Malone‘s duet with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help,” was in the number six slot.

Kendrick actually appeared in the top 10 for a second time, via his beef-starting feature on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That” (no. 8).

“Not Like Us” actually received even more attention in recent days following Drake’s bombshell legal filings against Universal Music Group.

The chart-topping diss song is at the heart of the dispute, with Drizzy accusing UMG of artifically boosting the track’s popularity through the use of streaming bots and payola.

He has also claimed that UMG — the parent company of his label Republic and Kendrick’s longtime home of Interscope — defamed him by knowlingly releasing a song that accuses him of being a pedophile.

Since he filed the petitions on November 25, sales of “Not Like Us” have increased by a staggering 440 percent, while streams of the song have jumped by 20 percent, according to Talk of the Charts.

“Not Like Us” has also zoomed back up the charts of both Apple Music and Spotify, enjoying a 16-place climb on the latter’s Global chart.

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