Rick Ross scraps the final North Carolina dates of his Port of Miami tour

Rick Ross has lost the last two dates of his Port of Miami 20th anniversary tour, and the cancellations landed without much of an explanation. The Greensboro show, booked for Friday at the Tanger Center, and the Charlotte date the following night were both pulled. AllHipHop reported that the Tanger Center said the Friday performance would not be rescheduled, while Blumenthal Arts in Charlotte blamed unforeseen circumstances and told ticket holders their refunds would be issued automatically.

The run was built around the album that made him, the 2006 debut Port of Miami, and it was staged as a formal affair rather than a club show. Ross toured the record with the Renaissance Orchestra and the Sainted Trap Choir behind him, reworking two decades of catalog for strings and voices. Most of the dates went off without trouble; the North Carolina weekend was where it stopped. He still has separate concerts listed for September, so the cancellations closed the anniversary production rather than his year.

50 Cent, who has been circling Ross for the better part of two decades, treated the news as an opening. Sharing the cancellation notice on Instagram, he wrote: "Oh my goodness cancelled, things not going well?" and followed it with a crack at the Wingstop franchises Ross owns. A second jab was aimed at his rival's drinks business. That Grape Juice noted the reason for the cancellations has still not been publicly confirmed, which did nothing to slow the commentary.

The exchange sits on top of a longer argument about numbers. Set In Stone, the first solo studio album Ross has released since 2021, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 39, the lowest chart position a solo studio record of his has ever managed, as we covered when the album missed the Top 20. Ross has pushed back on the framing, telling listeners to judge what they hear rather than the figures moving around the business: "Go to the product. Test it. How amazing is the music?"

Ross has landed his own shots. He questioned whether the revived G-Unit sneakers had really sold the way 50 claimed, saying the sneaker people he knows had never seen a pair. The $130 G-Unit G6, a rerelease on August 20 of the white, blue and red model from G-Unit's commercial peak, sold out of Reebok's website inside two hours. "We sold out within two hours, and our design held up," 50 said afterwards.

The feud itself dates to 2009, when Ross took aim at 50 on Mafia Music and got the Officer Ricky campaign in return, and it has since taken in diss records, cartoons, lawsuits and repeated attacks on each other's businesses. It has outlasted several eras of hip-hop. Ross had spent the summer marking the anniversary in friendlier settings, including a first-pitch appearance for Port of Miami at a Reds game, and more of his dates are listed in the tour guide.