Messina Touring Group, which promoted the tour, said that venues on the tour wouldn’t allow Macklemore to perform. “Ed was in a fucked up position,” the rapper said in a statement alleging Sheeran bowed to pressure from Robert Kraft Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Messina Touring Group, which promoted the tour, said that venues on the tour wouldn’t allow Macklemore to perform.S1

• “Ed was in a fucked up position,” the rapper said in a statement alleging Sheeran bowed to pressure from Robert KraftS2

• 'We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup'S3