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Rapper Young Thug Sued After New York Concert No-Show
2/8/2017
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Associated Press
An upstate New York event organizer says he lost $360,000 when the Atlanta rapper Young Thug did not show up at a concert he was supposed to headline.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that organizer Nicholas Fitts filed a lawsuit last month in a Cobb County, Georgia court against the rapper and his Smyrna-based company YSL Enterprises.
The lawsuit says Young Thug, whose, name is Jeffrey Williams, had signed a $55,000 contract to play an August concert at Sahlens Stadium in Rochester, New York and “did not have a valid legal reason” for skipping the show.
Fitts says he lost more than $200,000 in lost tickets sales, in addition to about $57,000 in promotional costs.
Young Thug’s record label didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
