Tyler the Creator Cancels Lollapalooza and Outside Lands Headlining Sets

Tyler, the Creator has pulled out of his headlining units at this yr’s Lollapalooza and Outdoors Lands music festivals.

“i hate saying this however i’ve to cancel lollapalooza and outdoors lands,” he wrote on X, previously Twitter. “i made a dedication that i can now not hold, and that bums me out understanding how excited people have been. that’s not horny in any respect. please please forgive me or name me names whenever you see me in individual. love.”

Lollapalooza changed Tyler with Megan Thee Stallion, and Outdoors Lands swapped him with Sabrina Carpenter, each fests shortly introduced on X.

The “See You Once more” rapper didn’t present a particular motive for the cancellations.

Tyler was the first-billed artist on each lineups, set to co-headline the primary night time of Chicago’s Lollapalooza with Hozier and listed atop the Killers, Sturgill Simpson and the Postal Service on the lineup for San Francisco’s Outdoors Lands.

Lollapalooza will happen Aug. 1-4 at Chicago’s Grant Park. Outdoors Lands is about one week later, from Aug. 11th of September, at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

Tyler, the Creator final headlined Lollapalooza and Outdoors 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 learn how to toy with the varied frequencies of his stage, dimming the lights for reflective moments and dancing round taking pictures 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 unimaginable 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 just a few moments to pause and gather himself between songs (or, at one level, to eat a sandwich whereas sitting in entrance of a inexperienced tent halfway by means of ‘IFHY’).”