Tyler, the Creator has pulled out of his headlining units at this yr’s Lollapalooza and Exterior Lands music festivals.
“i hate saying this however i’ve to cancel lollapalooza and out of doors lands,” he wrote on X, previously Twitter. “i made a dedication that i can now not maintain, and that bums me out realizing how excited of us had been. that’s not horny in any respect. please please forgive me or name me names while you see me in particular person. love.”
Lollapalooza changed Tyler with Megan Thee Stallion, and Exterior Lands swapped him with Sabrina Carpenter, each fests shortly introduced on X.
The “See You Once more” rapper didn’t present a particular cause for the cancellations.
Tyler was the first-billed artist on each lineups, set to co-headline the primary evening of Chicago’s Lollapalooza with Hozier and listed atop the Killers, Sturgill Simpson and the Postal Service on the lineup for San Francisco’s Exterior Lands.
Lollapalooza will happen Aug. 1-4 at Chicago’s Grant Park. Exterior Lands is ready one week later, from Aug. 11th of September, at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Tyler, the Creator final headlined Lollapalooza and Exterior Lands in 2021, in assist of his album “Name Me if You Get Misplaced.” In April, he headlined Coachella shortly after the discharge of the expanded “Name Me if You Get Misplaced: The Property Sale.” Throughout his headlining Coachella set, he introduced out Infantile Gambino, A$AP Rocky, Charlie Wilson and Kali Uchis.
“Tyler is a grasp conceptualizer, and is aware of the best way to toy with the varied frequencies of his stage, dimming the lights for reflective moments and dancing round capturing flames throughout extra electrified songs,” Selection‘s Steven J. Horowitz wrote of the efficiency. “However past all of the bells and whistles of the manufacturing, Tyler controls the highlight. It’s not possible to take your eyes off of him, and all through the 80-minute closing set of the day, the power — of each Tyler and the viewers — by no means waned, even when he took a couple of moments to pause and accumulate himself between songs (or, at one level, to eat a sandwich whereas sitting in entrance of a inexperienced tent halfway by way of ‘IFHY’).”