Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DRAKE & 21 SAVAGE - IT'S ALL A BLUR TOUR"

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

Today, four time Grammy-award winning and multi-platinum selling artist Drake announced his long awaited return to the stage with the 2023 ‘It’s All A Blur’ Tour presented by Cash App, Visa and Sprite. Produced by Live Nation, Drake and 21 Savage will be going on a 29-date arena run with stops including Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and more before wrapping up in Glendale, AZ at Desert Diamond Arena on Tuesday, September 5.‘It’s All A Blur’ marks Drake’s return to touring since headlining Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour in 2018. The title, a celebration of the last decade, sums up Drake’s sentiment of the unprecedented run as he gets ready to hit the road. In the last five years, Drake has released four albums, including his most recent studio album Her Loss in collaboration with 21 Savage, which reached number one on the Billboard’s 200 chart and had all 16 songs debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 list.source: Drake Announces 2023 It’s All A Blur Tour With 21 Savage - Live Nation EntertainmentPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now, everybody stopped the presses because the goat has announced that he's going on tour. Now, know what you're probably saying. This is old news. We already know that the ghost's going on tour. And if you're saying that, let me tell you, you are a proud member of the OVO Foundation. Let me just say that. And for anybody who didn't know what I just said was a true statement as far as Drake going on tour, then you got some catching up to do because one of the most prominent artists in the music industry has announced he's going on tour.

and the prices are egregious. I mean, just straight outlandish, blasphemy, astronomically priced, you know, just not really considering the average day, hardworking man. So if you're going to go to a tour for Drake, hopefully you have a couple dollars stacked up because Drake's not really caring about the pandemic

affecting your bank account. So anyways, Drake's going on tour with none other than, Mr. UK Savage himself And, you know, they're going to U.S., Canada. I wonder if they're going to be touring in the UK. That's something that I think I'll probably have to ask 21.

But a lot of these different arenas, of course, in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Vancouver. I mean, the whole list of tour days is very interesting because you know, I felt like he's going to warm up a little bit, but no, straight out the gate, June 21st. He's coming to

Texas from June 21st to June 25th. And if you don't know, That's like he's doing four days. So 21st, 22nd, 24th, and 25th. So he's going to be down there for five days, but he's going to be doing four events. And I think that 23rd day is just the rest in between cities because he's going from Houston to Dallas.

But I'm looking at that to be the most lit Drake concert because you know every chance that Drake gets, he's rapping about Houston, Dallas, Austin, Texas. Like, I mean, he literally says it in every bar like, I think even on the 21 album, he has a lot of references to Texas. Like, I don't know the type of what they call them teens in Canada that Drake has in Houston or Texas in general. But let me just say that they got to be the cream of the crop because there ain't no way that one city, no, one state can have this man rapping about them so often. Like, no wonder KD went to Texas to play basketball.

I mean, imagine being the seven-footer shooting from 30. and you don't even consider Kentucky. Like the type of quality that's in Texas really needs to be studied by a fine young young gentleman. And yeah, I'm just going to leave it at that. Anyways, what else? Miami, of course. Miami is a nice place to go. I mean, that doesn't even need to be said.

Also going to Chicago, you know, probably has to, at this point, you know, I heard that him and Lil Durk might have a little static. So he may have to look out for that. you know, all I'm going to say is, uh, technically his, let me not to say. That's kind of messy, but let's just say, let's just say Drake is playing, playing a dangerous game. Let's just say that. And so Chicago may get a little sticky for him. Atlanta, I mean, 21 Savage could shut down Atlanta by himself. So I'm not really too concerned about that. Detroit, Boston, that's probably a stretch where he's probably going to cancel a lot for no reason. Montreal, I don't really know too much. Is that overseas? That's overseas, right?

right i'm not trying to be ignorant i think that's overseas coming back to new york i mean new york is just from july 17th to july 26th wow he's going to be in new york for a bunch of dates he's doing a barclays three times and madison square garden three times so he's doing the most amount of shows in new york which is understandable like understandable because um if you don't know I mean, while he's in New York, there's so much he could do as far as interviews, just content creation, just, there's a lot of different publication, I don't know, podcasts and just platforms, news outlets based in New York. So it kind of makes sense in that aspect. I wonder when the playoffs end. April, May.

Yeah, I think it, June, July. I think it'll probably end while he's in maybe Miami. I think July is like probably the end of the playoffs. I don't know. Don't quote me on that. But so, yeah, when he's in New York, it'll be well past the playoffs, I believe, and he can have all these stadiums to himself, well, arenas. Because that's another thing.

Apparently, when Bad Bunny and, who else, Taylor Swift, when they was touring, I guess baseball season wasn't going on, so stadiums was more available. That was the word around town right now is for why Drake just didn't do a, stadium tour because if you don't know stadium tour i mean has more people than has more capacity than an arena i think that goes without saying uh goes without saying you've seen a football game you've seen a basketball game you've seen the nosebleeds for a basketball game you've seen the nosebleeds for a football game i mean you might as well not be there but anyways you know

teach his own so anyways um yeah so he decided to just do a arena tour which interestingly enough, he's doing a 360 arena tour. So he's technically taking up both sides of the arena, which brings him in even more revenue. If you look it up on Ticketmaster and just go to any of the dates, the arena

is a, no, the stage is a 360 stage. So either side of either side you decide to go on. You're still going to be able to see Drake. Like, whenever most artists tour arenas, half of it is cut off because the backdrop and everything is to be faced a certain way so you can see the big monitor that they're plastering for the for the audience to see but drake is doing the 360 tour uh 360 stage which is making me think that he's going to have like a 360 screen it kind of like in the NBA game how you can see the jumbo tron maybe like that and having like um images plastered up through there but i'll be interested to see what he does with it but

At the end of the day, it's really a revenue play because with the baseball season, it may be harder to get stadiums nowadays because, of course, baseball plays the stadiums. And arenas at this point would be more accessible because the basketball season, well, the NBA season, basketball season in general, is about to come to an end. So what else? So, yeah, that's the basis. I know a lot of people was like, why is Drake not doing a stadium tour? Because they see Bad Bunny, they see Taylor Swift, Beyonce doing state.

stadium tours and they just think it's just the easiest thing in the world. And it takes a lot of planning for that ahead of time. So maybe he just ran out of time. But with the 360 stage, I don't think I understand. Like you're using the whole arena. So usually you're cutting off a certain portion of the arena. He's using the entire arena because he has the 360 stage. So I don't think he's losing down that much money because how much can you really enjoy the experience

in the nosebleed of a stadium for a singular artist? maybe a football game because it's a team game and you can see more people running around. But for one person, like you're literally just going to be watching the screen, like people at home. Like, I just, I don't understand it. But anyways, another thing that got fans very upset is that he's going on tour and these prices are outrageous. Now, granted, it is the first time in four years that Drake has even went on tour. I know this because I went to the last Drake tour. I think I went to Texas to watch him.

No, no, no, Kansas City. watch him perform and man he went crazy like i just wanted to hear back to back that's how petty i was it was back in that that day and age when drake was beefing with mickie mill beefing with joe budden i think the crowd started chan f joe button at one point i was like man i forgot that joe button was really that prominent in hip-hop before he started podcasting so uh yeah drake drake really had a lot of beef back then and nowadays is more even keels i can i can be i can understand while people are not as acceptable for these high price rate or high rates for these tickets because who's he beefing way?

I mean, if he ignites the Kanye beef again, maybe. But the whole thing that Kanye is going through right now, I mean, he may want to, he may want to leave Drake alone because all I'm going to say is I'm not trying to get canceled, but Drake is one of them. So I'm, and I don't know who them is. So don't try to cancel me. You know, I could be talking about anything. But all I'm saying is, Drake, you know, he does have his business in order.

so Kanye tries to pop out again you know Drake may just drop the bomb and just and just may be like you only saying that because I'm a hey and then that's the end of Kanye West so anyways I don't think he's gonna be for well I don't think Kanye is gonna be for him no more Drake already sent him a diss I think he said something like

what he said mob ties is why I squashed it or something like that on her loss he was throwing a whole lot of shots on her loss but basically he said he only squashed it because mob ties or something like that. I don't know. You have to look it up.

But basically, Drake just talked about how, I mean, even in the picture when Drake and Kanye was forced to take together, like beyond the wheel, is how you say it?

Without the wheel? I don't know. Y'all get what I'm saying. You know, they wasn't able to control that picture not happening. Like Jay Prince told them we're going to take this picture

and I'm going to hold up a gun sign while we take this picture because I'm that dude and I need to let the whole world know of that. So if you look up, Drake and Kanye West making up picture. That's why Jay Prince is sitting there because he's the one who made that happen. So there you go.

Yeah, so Drake and Kanye really not done beef and they just have to, for the sake of mob ties. And you see, I'm not going to speak too much on it, but you see in other situations what happens when you mess around with modtize. And that's why I'm going to leave it at, you know, yeah, y'all know what I'm referring to. Anyways, what else? So, yeah, 200, I think it's starting at $200 for nosebleeds for Drake tickets, which is,

insane honestly but um nosebleed tickets like i would pay i would easily pay 200 foot ticket of course but noseblee's like come on man like i'm trying to get down to the stage and they said like to even get close it's like 500 at least so you got to give a whole arm in the leg you may have to uh literally sacrifice to to to get uh court side you know what i mean so anyways uh what else i went to ticket master i couldn't even get a ticket they was like yeah please uh cue or sign in to to be in the line or something like that i was like yeah y'all got it man i can't look at the prices for myself i got to look at resale market like i'm hey let me tell you something it's kind of like the ps5 if you get a ticket from a reseller yeah i think if you get a resell ticket basically just know you're

paying two to ten times the amount that the original price was listed as and i'm just going to leave it at that which is why i'm not going to get into it right now but i'm going to touch on that a little bit Ticketmaster is being pressed by the government at all place. Yes, yes, TikTok type B. They're being pressed by the government to give over some of its powers because some of his power because it's dominant in the digital ticketing space. So Ticketmaster is the only place you can get tickets from, and that's a fact. And a lot of these lawyers are coming out and are telling them to give up some of its power.

because it's basically a monopoly over this whole ticket situation, digital ticket. And of course, they merged a lot of nation and that even added more to the monopoly rollout. I'm not getting too much into it. So that's basically all I'm going to talk about. Let me see. Yeah. So basically people are saying ticket master of monopoly, which is why when Ali acclaimed artists come out on tour, they're buying it themselves and reselling it. And that's the word on the street, allegedly, because I'm not trying to get sued.

But there's a reason why the government is pressing Ticketmaster, like they're pressing TikTok right now. So, yeah, let me just leave it at that. So anyways, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about the whole pressing of Ticketmaster and their power over the digital ticketing space? And also, will you be getting tickets or will you be going to one of the dates on Drake's? tour.