{"id":899906,"date":"2026-09-18T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899906\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:24:12","slug":"heres-everything-thats-happened-since-macklemore-was-dropped-from-ed-sheerans-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899906\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s everything that&#8217;s happened since Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran&#8217;s tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, news broke that Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran\u2019s North American tour. The decision came after multiple venues hosting future tour dates refused to platform the rapper after he made pro-Palestinian comments on stage during his set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdT-6KGAtuI\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a statement<\/a>, Sheeran said he is &#8220;appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine,&#8221; calling the suffering on &#8220;both sides&#8221; a &#8220;human tragedy,&#8221; but defended his choice not to take a public stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In response, every other musician on the tour \u2014 including Sheeran\u2019s backing band \u2014 have pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>Today on Commotion, culture critics Jay Smooth, Sara Yasin and Niko Stratis join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to break down what happened, and what it tells us about this moment in politics and culture.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Today&#8217;s episode on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full discussion from today&#8217;s show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-1349-commotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC Listen<\/a> or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.mgln.ai\/KEXoVG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">available wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Panel produced by Nikky Manfredi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-899906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899906","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=899906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}