Rod Wave’s Legal Battle Over $27 Million Tour Problems Escalates

In September, Rod Wave was hit with an enormous $27 million lawsuit by his former live performance promoter, Grizzly Touring LLC. In it, the promoter alleges that the performer has breached his contract and did not return his advance cash.

Just a few weeks later, Rod Wave filed a countersuit towards Grizzly. He alleged that the promoter was attempting to power him to work with them once more regardless of the intense points they encountered on his “Final Lap” tour in 2024. Furthermore, he alleged that the promoter made it “logistically inconceivable” for him to satisfy his obligations. He requested the choose to make his contract with Grizzly null.

“Grizzly will not be entitled to this improperly requested particular efficiency or equal injunctive aid, which successfully quantities to an indentured servitude,” Rod Wave’s lawyer, James Sammataro, alleged. “Defendants have misplaced confidence in Grizzly as their tour promoter and now not want to carry out companies for Grizzly or obtain Grizzly’s companies.”

“Rod Wave steadily discovered solely on the final minute that [they] rescheduled [a show], typically solely after seeing tickets for these rescheduled reveals obtainable on-line,” the swimsuit additionally alleges. “Solely 12 of the 35 scheduled [shows] occurred on the date and venue initially introduced.”

Now, AllHipHop’s Grouchy Greg Watkins completely reviews that Grizzly has filed a 36-page rebuttal in federal courtroom. In it, they allege that Rod Wave owes at the least $27 million from the tour, which they allege they fronted over $57 million for.

Grizzly blames his crew for the problems that occurred through the second leg of the tour, alleging that they have been accountable for each stage logistics and crew operations. Based on them, the artist’s camp allegedly authorized a tour schedule that was in the end “inconceivable to execute” as a result of they “did not account for bigger, costlier manufacturing wants.”