{"id":172892,"date":"2025-09-27T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:39:07","slug":"the-king-of-dancehall-vybz-kartel-is-set-to-hit-the-stage-in-toronto-for-the-first-time-at-ovo-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172892\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Dancehall, Vybz Kartel, is set to hit the stage in Toronto for the first time at OVO Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drake has announced that for the first time ever, the King of Dancehall, Vybz Kartel, will be performing in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena in October at OVO Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Since his release from prison in July 2024, Kartel has shown up for dancehall fans around the world performing in sold-out arenas, including New York\u2019s Barclays Centre, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, and the 02 Arena in London.<\/p>\n<p>This surprise announcement debuted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPFG9pDDjEd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">collab post<\/a> between the 6ix God himself and Kartel, with Drake announcing that Vybz Kartel will be headlining in Drake\u2019s hometown in celebration of his birthday for OVO Fest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nt-read-more__title no-margin-top\">Read More<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vybzkartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@vybzkartel<\/a> DI TEACHA LIVE IN TORONTO FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER CHAMPAGNE BDAY CELEBRATIONS \ud83e\udd2f,\u201d Drake said in his Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>While no information about ticket sales has been released yet, fans are already buzzing online about the historic performance by the king of dancehall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scotiabank Arena holds up to 19,800 fans, and based on online reaction, both nights in Toronto are set to be sold out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cR.i.p to my child\u2019s college fund \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffe this show can\u2019t miss me,\u201d one user said on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorld Boss touch downnnnnnnn,\u201d another said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen do the tickets drop???? Gyal haffi start starve and save from now,\u201d one user joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need this at rogers CENTRE,\u201d another stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake has announced that for the first time ever, the King of Dancehall, Vybz Kartel, will be performing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,5320,75,88569,88570],"class_list":["post-172892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drake","tag-entertainment","tag-ovo","tag-vybz-kartel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}