It sells out every single year, so I don’t get how they’d be losing money unless they’re drastically undercharging for tickets based on the production budget

He must not feel like it have power without him performing

Wonder if there’s trouble in dreamville tbh

He turns 40 next month

Him retiring wouldnt be the craziest thing but rappers never retire fr

Joe Budden the only one i can think of

the cole miners would def spin it that way 💀💀

got his ass king

Might delete later is a curse

JID said he don’t hang w them

Ari asked to be dropped because she said she was being treated like a joke

I remember this and i think i remember earthgang having similar problems

Whatever this meant

festival business is struggling across the board. rising costs in things like equipment, lower demand for ticket sales than there was in the late 2010s festival craze and the immediate post pandemic “we’re back outside” boom

pitchfork fest chicago just announced they’re done. coachella sales down. gov ball sales down. nyc festivals like meadows and panorama never returned. wouldn’t surprise me if this decision was a mix of genuine financial concern, and exhaustion

Like you said though, those festivals were having trouble selling tickets.

Dreamville sells out every single year, so I’m confused as to how financial concern would be the reason for ending it

they’re probably getting corporate investments and those investors are lowering what they’re putting up just based on the climate of festivals, regardless of their past history. there was a boom in demand for festivals and its cooled off

artists could also be raising their prices to go along with rising costs in equipment and manpower (basically the reason we see arena concert ticket prices go up, just getting put on to the festival runners instead of the attendees)

it’s true dreamville fest has done well and so has camp flog gnaw for example but still could be some outside factors

it also could just be that organizing a festival is exhausting and cole doesn’t want to do it anymore, but I think that even if this particular smaller festival is selling out, if the market is struggling as a whole, they’re gonna see some of the effects of that

but this is also just spitballing i dont rly know any of this for sure its just my gut feeling. industry is reeling rn

literally just fell to my knees at the gym. is this a sign he’s retiring?

I used to pray for times like these

Why is this dude retiring lol

We’ll see

Niggas just added some extra, says that nowhere

That being said next year prolly is his last year rapping contractually or competitively frfr I can see it, its 2025 niggas been at it almost 20 yrs now and done reached the pinnacle of this s***!

Inevitable might be the build up to It’s A Boy this whole time cause I think fall off is gonna have its own focused era away from everything

Damn he really the boogeyman fr
One nigga got a classic diss record dropped on his head top

The other is expediting his farewell tour due to the damages suffered

i don't take s*** Cole say seriously unless it's about going to the NBA.

i wish more people knew his humble soul s*** is a gimmick

Nigga was on stage holding himself nervously asking us “is it alright if I do this next song? It means a lot to me, but if ya’ll not ready for it I can do something else.”

Crowd cheers

“Oh okay, let’s see how ya’ll feel about it”

Nigga plays a classic Cole song

Going to my first festival with Dreamville

F***ing $170 tickets got snatched quick but I got the next tier up so it’s all good

yo, sometimes it's just time for some s*** to be over whether he feels like that's his career after a certain album, or this fest

it's amazing he was able to hold something like this for his city at all, salute to Cole