Rapper Busta Rhymes appears to have canceled his entire Blockbusta 2024 tour, which was due to kick off in San Francisco on March 13.
All 24 dates of the rapper's upcoming release “I Know What You Want” were listed as canceled Friday on Ticketmaster's website and Rhymes' official website, including his March 15 show at the Hollywood Palladium and a stop at the March 16 at House of Blues in Anaheim. Shows in San Diego and Chicago were listed on Rhymes' official website, but tickets were not available.
“Unfortunately, the event organizer had to cancel their event,” a notice on Ticketmaster's website said Friday. “No action is necessary to obtain a refund. It will be processed based on the original payment method used at the time of purchase, once funds are received from the Event Organizer, which is generally completed within 30 days.”
No reason was given for the change, and representatives for the “Break Ya Neck” rapper, his label, Epic Records and Live Nation did not immediately respond Friday to The Times' requests for comment.
However, the 51-year-old emcee is still scheduled to headline his off-tour stop at Yaamava' Resort & Casino in San Manuel on April 27. Rhymes last performed on February 1 when he opened the Black Music Collective Honors event in Los Angeles. Angeles during the lead-up to the Grammy Awards.
Co-producer Live Nation announced Rhymes' North American tour in November, marking the rapper's first headlining run in support of his 11th studio album, “Blockbusta,” released in 2023. The tour was scheduled to last five weeks before ending with Rhymes' Brooklyn Homecoming on April 21.
“He keeps the momentum from his triumphant performance supporting 50 Cent this year on the historic sold-out global Final Lap Tour. As always, expect a supernova-level set night after night from Busta as he delivers transcendent classics and select cuts from 'BLOCKBUSTA!',” Live Nation said in the November announcement.
Although Rhymes has yet to address the cancellation, he took to Instagram on Thursday to announce a new album from Flipmode Squad, the hip-hop collective he led from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Rhymes appeared to be in a recording studio in the video announcement and played a snippet of the album, which arrives “26 years later.” It's unclear which artists will appear on the new project, but Rhymes was joined at various times by Rampage, Spliff Starr, Baby Sham, Rah Digga and Meka.
