ScHoolboy Q’s Toronto Concert Cancelled, Blames Drake’s Beef with Kendrick Lamar
In a series of posts on X, Q implied that the show was cancelled due to Drake's feud with Lamar, writing: "CANADIAN POLICE DONT WANT NOBODY FROM TDE PERFORMING.."
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A cancelled show is seemingly connected to the year's biggest story in rap music: the heated beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
ScHoolboy Q was supposed to perform a sold-out show at Toronto venue History today (July 18). But Q took to X last night to announce that the show had been cancelled, supposedly due to the feud: "CANADIAN POLICE DONT WANT NOBODY FROM TDE [Lamar's label] PERFORMING.." he wrote.
ScHoolboy Q used to be in the group Black Hippy with Kendrick Lamar and is a former labelmate on Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). Lamar left the label last year. The venue History is a partnership between Live Nation and Drake.
Q went on to post several times about the cancelled show, referencing PartyNextDoor's recent performance at the Hollywood Palladium in Lamar and ScHoolboy's hometown of L.A.: "if we wanted to get yall we would’ve just did it.. now wHen sumbody get Hurt don’t cry…"
Q later clarified that he found the cancellation funny and didn't mean his post as a threat, but as advice: "I neva said “ ima kill sumbody” im saying if we wanted to crack it off we could’ve smH," he wrote, "ima soccer dad."
ScHoolboy Q, who performed at Lamar's June 14 Pop Out Concert, is also briefly featured in Lamar's video for the Drake diss track "Not Like Us," which has added some fire back to a fight that was on the verge of dying down. Q and Lamar go back a long way, as former collaborators in Black Hippy alongside Jay Rock and Ab-Soul.
Drake posted an Instagram story following Q's posts on X, leading some to speculate that he was trolling the rapper. In the shared story, Drake is seemingly sporting blue slides, possibly referencing ScHoolboy's single of the same name.
He's also wearing a shirt that reads "Free Yayo," a reference to hip hop artist Tony Yayo who in a recent interview spoke about not wanting to get caught up in the Drake/Kendrick beef.
"You don’t wanna say something about Drake and f--ckin can’t go to Canada,” he told VladTV.
Though no official explanation for the cancellation has been revealed, the event page for the concert on Ticketmaster states that it was cancelled by the event organizer.
“The decision to cancel this event was made by the venue, not by the Toronto Police Service;” says a spokesperson from the Toronto Police Service.
Billboard Canada has reached out to Live Nation for comment.
The cancellation follows a recent attack on Rick Ross — who previously released Drake diss track "Champagne Moments" — in Vancouver, while "Not Like Us" played at the concert.
Drake liked a post about the attack, prompting criticism from rapper Uncle Luke: “When there is violence, you don’t condone it."
