Following his Paris arrest, Lil Baby is gearing up to hit the road at the top of September alongside his Voice of the Heroes collaborator Lil Durk as part of The Back Outside Tour.
Appearing on the Flagrant 2 podcast last week, Akademiks speculated about the tour’s weak ticket sales and while he gave respect to Baby as the hottest rapper out, he doesn’t think he and Durk have the mainstream appeal to sell out arenas across the country this fall.
“Lil Baby’s trying to do arenas about 10,000 to 15,000,” Ak said he heard from two people recently. “They said his tour’s doing bad. You’ll never see him post that his tour is sold out, they said it’s not selling that much.”
They compared his case to Jack Harlow, who is selling out much smaller 2,000 cap venues. Akademiks gave Lil Baby his props, comparing him to pre-Tha Carter III Lil Wayne. Co-host Andrew Schulz made the case that Lil Baby’s crossover appeal might not be there in the white community.
“I can’t speak on behalf of all whites, but I have a feeling that Lil Baby is massive amongst Black people and there’s a huge chasm between white and black people getting on board, and that’s your ticket sales slump,” Schulz added.
Lil Baby Is Free & On His Way Home Following Paris Drug Arrest
Lil Baby ran into some legal trouble while checking out France for Paris Fashion Week. Baby and his bodyguard were arrested by Paris authorities after police reportedly discovered 32 grams of marijuana in their vehicle. The Quality Control rapper was then released hours later after paying fines for the incident.
Listen to the discussion at the 2:22:30 mark below.
Akademiks is really just Grimace dressed up in a Sherman Klump costume…
Pocketwatching Akademiks. He’s a certified cuck.
Akademiks is a smart dude but hip hop is not for him. Why does a DJ who does not DJ hold so much clout? Akademiks do us all a favour go set up a record label of something you are wasting your talent
Lil baby is fucking trash. That’s why his shows ain’t selling. It’s not that deep.
He’s not though… he’s a talented dude with a lot of potential. His early work to now is why he is popular. Respect the growth.
He is trash though, and y’all scared to say it , cause they push him in your face constantly.
Who the fuckkk is lil turd?
I don’t care for Lil’ Durk, but your comment was wack and generic. Try again.
The fam base is either 1. “over-it” , 2. Broke as fuck and not spending $50 (if that) to go see someone who preaches the same shit…
Or 3. The fan-base is not giving to shows because it’s pointless, at the end of the night, the artist just made apparently 100,000 to 500,000 (da baby always talks about his price) and we as a fan base just paid for all that. The people should be smarter than that. Why give him money when he basically called anyone who makes less than 500,000 broke