Key Takeaways:

• Grizzly Touring is suing Rod Wave for $27 million after he canceled tour dates and allegedly saved advance funds.
• The lawsuit claims he spent tour funds on personal jets and luxurious houses as an alternative of finishing the 35-show contract.
• Grizzly Touring can be searching for a courtroom order to dam Rod Wave from launching new excursions with out their involvement.

Rod Wave is going through a lawsuit over his abruptly canceled “Last Lap Tour.” On Tuesday (Sept. 30), Grizzly Touring sued the rapper for allegedly failing to fulfill his contractual obligations.

According to authorized filings obtained by TMZ, the touring firm is searching for $27 million to recuperate unearned advances, plus extra damages tied to misplaced earnings. Rod Wave was initially contracted for 35 reveals with a payout of $40,250,000, half of which they declare was paid up entrance to cowl manufacturing prices and different bills.

In whole, Grizzly Touring claims they gave him $57 million when factoring in extra prices. However, the Nostalgia rapper reportedly solely carried out 26 stops and pulled in simply shy of $30 million. On high of that, the corporate’s legal professional, Pravin Patel, alleges Rod Wave selected to spend parts of the advance on “private jets and lavish second homes.”

Why Rod Wave Canceled His “Last Lap Tour”

Rod Wave introduced that he was canceling the remaining dates of his “Last Lap Tour” on the finish of January. The rapper mentioned the trek had been tormented by manufacturing issues “from the beginning” that prolonged into its second leg.

To make issues worse, the “Heart On Ice” artist was coping with a foot damage on the time. “My foot and ankle injury [have] been killin’ me the whole tour, but this is what I had to do to continue,” he wrote alongside a photograph of a number of tablets in a transparent Ziploc bag. “I [have] been mentally [whacked] out, so [please] excuse me.”

It’s value mentioning that Rod Wave did promise followers he’d return to the stage “bigger and better” just a few months after canceling the “Last Lap Tour.” So far, no new reveals have been introduced.

Grizzly Touring is making an attempt to stop that anyway, AllHipHop famous. The firm reportedly filed a courtroom order to dam Rod Wave from launching any new excursions with out their involvement, citing a violation of the “exclusivity provision” of their deal.

Rod Wave Launched His Own Touring Company Afterward

Meanwhile, Rod Wave introduced the launch of his personal Mainstay Touring firm final month. “What even pushed me to want to be more hands-on with touring is just the fact that my last tour had to get taken down because of the routing,” he informed music/rb-hip-hop/rod-wave-interview-2025-sinners-touring-album-1236057705/”>Billboard. “I’m saying putting it in people’s hands and promoters. I just wanted to be more in control.”