Rod Wave’s authorized struggle together with his former live performance promoter, Grizzly Touring LLC, simply hit a brand new degree after Grizzly filed a 36-page rebuttal in federal court docket, accusing the chart-topping rapper of breaching his contract, canceling reveals, and pocketing hundreds of thousands in unreturned advances.

In its newest submitting, Grizzly fired again at Rod Wave and his firm, Hit House Entertainment, claiming the St. Petersburg native owes at the very least $27,243,146.86 from the failed Last Lap Tour.

The firm states that it has fronted greater than $57 million for the tour, together with a $20.1 million advance meant to cowl manufacturing, journey, and insurance coverage prices.

Grizzly’s attorneys allege that Rod Wave’s camp was chargeable for large manufacturing failures that derailed the second leg of the tour.

The doc references an August 5, 2024, manufacturing settlement signed by Rod Wave’s supervisor, Beau Williams, which Grizzly claims proves that the artist—not the promoter—was in control of stage logistics and crew operations.

The submitting accuses Rod Wave of approving a tour schedule that later grew to become “impossible to execute” as a result of his crew “failed to account for larger, more expensive production needs.”

Grizzly insists the rapper’s personal distributors—particularly 360 Production—couldn’t sustain with the speedy enviornment turnaround required for the multi-city schedule, forcing widespread cancellations and refunds.

The promoter additionally claims that regardless of Rod Wave’s social media blame-shifting in January, his firm “ratified” each manufacturing resolution, then “unilaterally ended” the tour whereas secretly getting ready to launch a brand new touring firm—allegedly violating an exclusivity clause.

Grizzly’s counterstrike consists of 11 affirmative defenses, starting from “ratification” and “unjust enrichment” to “unclean hands.”

The company claims that Rod Wave breached the covenant of good faith by accepting the money, rescheduling the dates, after which refusing to finish the remaining reveals.

The Last Lap Tour, which adopted the vastly profitable Nostalgia run, was designed as a blockbuster follow-up with an upgraded 360-degree stage setup. But solely 26 of the 40 agreed-upon reveals had been accomplished, based on Grizzly’s court docket submitting.

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