Fans of Drake, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj have voiced their annoyance at how deep they’re going to have to dig into their pockets in order to get tickets for this year’s OVO Fest.
Drizzy announced the return of his beloved Toronto festival in May and fans were abuzz with excitement following the news Weezy and Nicki would be on board for a Young Money reunion.
However, excitement quickly tempered once fans saw the price tag for entering the festival as tickets went on sale Friday (July 15).
Some fans have posted screenshots of the Ticketmaster webpage, highlighting how lawn seats for the festival ran upwards of $750 in Canadian dollars, or $575 USD. The prices jumped under the platinum level of ticketing as those who wanted to catch Wayne, Drake and Nicki on the floor would have to pay almost $2,100 Canadian.
“Charging $750 for tickets to sit on the grass at OVO fest is fucking wild. #ovofest,” Twitter user @danicaSnelson wrote.
The outrage continued from there as fans wagered between paying their mortgage over catching the likes of Lil Baby, Chris Brown and other surprise guests throughout the three-day extravaganza.
The reactions ranged from one fan proclaiming Drake and company better perform on their lawn due to the cost of lawn ticket prices to another using a meme of Drake checking his phone and musing about whether he should continue to wait in line for tickets as 2,000 people were waiting ahead of them.
The news of Young Money’s return to OVO Fest was teased as a “major announcement” by Drizzy on Wednesday (July 13) and marks the first time since 2019 that the festival will be taking place. The All Canadian Northstars will open the festivities on July 28 before Brown and Lil Baby take to the stage on July 29. The YM Reunion is set to close out OVO Fest on August 1st.
“OCTOBER WORLD WEEKEND,” Drizzy wrote on Instagram Wednesday. “I am currently working on bringing OVO FEST around the world in 2023 for the 10th anniversary but of course we wanted to turn the city up for the summer!!!! More event announcements to come. Tickets on sale Friday on @ticketmaster.”
Drizzy’s kept busy in the lead-up to OVO Fest. In June, he released his surprise electronic music album Honestly, Nevermind which quickly went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — even after dividing fans.
The Toronto rapper recently found himself in the rumor mill as fans believed he was arrested in Sweden on drug charges on Thursday (July 14). Swedish authorities and his camp have since confirmed he wasn’t arrested and was instead at his hotel in the Scandanavian country.
“FYI: I talked to Swedish police and they told me Drake is not currently in their custody. (That was the only info they would give),” HuffPost senior editor Philip Lewis tweeted at midnight on Friday (July 15).
Drake Announces Young Money Reunion At October World Weekend
He later added, “From Drake’s team: ‘Drake is at his hotel and has not been arrested.’” XXL and The Hollywood Reporter also confirmed the news.
You can see more OVO Fest reactions below:
H0M0Fest 2022….It will cost you your ass!; You will pay dearly!
It’d be amazing if everyone just said fuck it and didn’t go. What a strong message that would send as consumers. But we all know that ain’t gonna happen. So, we’re gonna have fools falling behind on rent with empty refrigerators all so they can drop 2Gs on this bullshit.
You obviously don’t know Ovo fans then. They would sacrifice their first born (straight fans….yes those exist lol)or slave themselves out (if they’re gay) just to see or hear Drake live for a couple seconds.
What is wrong with rich people lately? I’m not talking about successful people, I’m talking people worth 100m plus (which is nobody reading this) putting prices up and up, squeezing profit a little more. Drake is worth 250million. Why is he charging over $1000 to go to a shitty festival? Glastonbury tickets are 10x less expensive and it’s way more iconic and vastly superior. People should boycott this and not turn up. Send a message to these greedy pieces of garbage
Pay that much money just too be bored out of your mind and put to sleep by Drake. There’s a word for people like that and they’re called retarded.
Rap is about 95% of the music I listen to but I have no interest in rap concerts. They don’t look fun at all lol. It seems Almost every other music genre has better concerts and put on a better show.
They do
These fools would give their life’s savings just to be within 1000 yards of Drake.
I’d be ashamed to call myself a fan of his but then again don’t most you rainbow mafia warriors got money anyways? That’s probably who he’s catering to, not poor low level paupers which is messed up cuz they’re the ones who stream it the most.
Last Year Price,It’s Todays price
You mean “Yesterday’s price is not Today’s price!!!”
This is what y’all deserve for supporting this J3W!$H Canadian Culture Vulture. He’s taking all y’all money lol.
Drake sucks ass
Didn’t know Ambien was that expensive.
Well, he does have a song called “Fucking Fans.”
They charge this much because you idiots will pay this much. Speak with your wallets.
This is reverse prostitution at it’s finest at work here. Now get to work,bitches cuz daddy needs his money.
Drake is corny as shit. So sad what hip hop is now. All these pop stars now and bubble gum rappers. Lgbtlmnop agendas with Kid Cudi and Uzi Vert, even westside Gunn was wearing a skirt the other day. Dre been ghey, youg thug, gunna, playboi carti ghey ghey ghey
HIGH PRICE SMALL REWARD