Drake finally cancels his already twice-postponed Xcel Center show

The rapper's Nov. 11 stop in St. Paul was originally slated for August.

October 10, 2018 at 5:36PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Drake has cancelled a few other stops on his tour besides St. Paul. / Tamir Kalifa, New York Times
Drake has cancelled a few other stops on his tour besides St. Paul. / Tamir Kalifa, New York Times (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

No press release was sent from the arena this time. No apology tweet came out from one of Twitter's most-followed users. No explanation was offered from anyone. It's as if everyone was too embarrassed to own up to the fact that Drake has royally screwed over his Twin Cities fans.

The Toronto rapper with the biggest album of the year quietly cancelled his Xcel Energy Center date over the weekend, a show that had already been postponed twice from August to a Nov. 11 date. Fans who adjusted their plans three different times to suit Drake's erratic tour schedule were finally alerted by Ticketmaster that the show was off entirely. Xcel Center's page for the concert simply reads, "Refunds at Point of Purchase only. Internet and phone orders will automatically be canceled & refunded."

Originally slated to be the second stop on his Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour, the St. Paul show was first shrugged off along with the opening Kansas City date, due to delays in the tour's preparations. A press release then read, "In order to deliver the high standard tour experience our fans expect and deserve, we have made the necessary decision to slightly adjust the beginning of the (tour)."

So much for setting a "high standard." Drake did make good on the Kansas City date, but other stops on the tour were also shuffled and then eventually cancelled, including ones in Denver and Salt Lake City.

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Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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