Rod Wave Countersues After $27M Tour Lawsuit: Promoter Is Trying to Force ‘Indentured Servitude’

Rod Wave has fired backmost astatine a suit implicit his unfinished Last Lap tour, saying successful counterclaims that promoter Grizzly Touring is trying to trap him into moving with the institution again aft monolithic scheduling and accumulation issues forced him to cancel shows.

The countersuit is Rod’s archetypal effect since being sued past month by Grizzly, a associated task betwixt AG Entertainment, Mammoth Touring and CTS Eventim. Grizzly’s suit claims the vocalist and rapper is obligated to instrumentality $27 cardinal successful advances from the Last Lap circuit and that he’s nether declaration to enactment with the promoter for aboriginal tours.

Rod contends successful counterclaims filed Sunday (Oct. 12) that Grizzly’s accumulation failures and routing issues made it “logistically impossible” for him to implicit the tour. The vocalist wants a justice to teardrop up his declaration with Grizzly truthful helium tin self-promote a caller headlining circuit called The Redemption Experience.

“Grizzly is not entitled to this improperly requested circumstantial show oregon equivalent injunctive relief, which efficaciously amounts to an indentured servitude,” writes Rod’s lawyer James Sammataro. “Defendants person mislaid assurance successful Grizzly arsenic their circuit promoter and nary longer privation to execute services for Grizzly oregon person Grizzly’s services.”

The quality centers connected Rod’s circuit supporting his Last Lap album, which debuted astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 successful October 2024. The arena trek was primitively scheduled to tally from October to December 2024, but galore shows were postponed done February 2025. In January, however, Rod announced connected societal media that helium was canceling the remaining dates.

Grizzly claims Rod’s cancellation violated their touring declaration and that the vocalist is present improperly holding onto $27 cardinal worthy of advances. But Rod says he’s entitled to support this wealth nether their woody — and helium argues that Grizzly really breached the declaration by failing to decently load his touring instrumentality successful and retired of arenas and “making unilateral, onerous and inexplicable routing and booking decisions.”

“Rod Wave often learned lone astatine the past infinitesimal that a amusement had been rescheduled, often lone aft seeing tickets for these rescheduled shows disposable online,” reads the countersuit. “Only 12 of the 35 scheduled [shows] occurred astatine the day and venue primitively announced.”

Rod alleges that due to the fact that of these monolithic accumulation and scheduling problems, helium “was near with nary enactment but to cancel the remaining circuit dates.” He wants Grizzly to wage him fiscal damages for breach of contract, arsenic good arsenic for the reputational harm that arose from his “understandably outraged” fanbase.

The countersuit besides claims that Rod’s declaration with the promoter is voided by these breaches. The vocalist wants a judge’s blessing to embark connected his caller Redemption Experience tour, which is acceptable to statesman successful December astatine Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, without immoderate engagement from Grizzly.

“Grizzly’s suit represents an improper effort to unit Rod Wave to specifically execute a idiosyncratic services declaration for Grizzly against his will,” writes Rod’s ineligible team.

In summation to these halfway claims, Rod’s countersuit besides makes the eyebrow-raising allegation that Grizzly subordinate institution AG Entertainment bribed the singer’s erstwhile agent, Beau Williams.

1. Homepage
2. Entertainment
3. Rod Wave Countersues After $27M Tour Lawsuit: Promoter Is Trying to Force ‘Indentured Servitude’