Drake scheduled to perform on campus

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Up-and-coming Canadian rapper Drake is scheduled to perform at MSU in April, although details about the rapper’s performance remain uncertain.

Tour dates for Drake’s The Away from Home Tour indicate the rapper is scheduled to perform at MSU on April 14. His Web site does not specify a venue.

Bob Hoffman, communications director of MSU’s Performing Arts Facilities and Programs, said he had no record of Drake being booked at the Auditorium, Wharton Center or Fairchild Theatre.

Breslin Center staff said they could not confirm whether Drake is scheduled to perform; however, according to Breslin Center’s event calendar, country singer Carrie Underwood is scheduled to perform April 14.

Hoffman did say, however, that ASMSU has booked the Auditorium for April 14.

ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.

Eric Branoff, Student
Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, confirmed ASMSU has booked the Auditorium for that date; however, he could not confirm whether Drake was the artist scheduled to perform.

“We’re in a process of working on a contract with the artist we’re bringing,” Branoff said. “We are bringing an artist on (April 14) but I can’t confirm who.”

Branoff said ASMSU is finalizing plans in the next two weeks. Tickets currently are not listed for sale on ticket vendor Web sites.

Drake’s tour starts April 9 and runs until May 8, according to the rapper’s Web site.

Drake will visit 12 universities with opening acts Canadian rapper/singer K-OS and New York synth-pop group Francis and the Lights. Additional dates have yet to be confirmed.

The tour’s sponsor, Reverb, said Drake’s tour is part of the Campus Consciousness Tour that promotes environmentally friendly concert tours on college campuses.

Reverb spokeswoman Amy Makowiecki said the company sponsors a few artists each year, and will sponsor Drake’s tour and singer Ben Harper’s tour this spring.

The company creates a “green tour” for the artist, as well as providing onsite environmental information for concertgoers, Makowiecki said.

“Generally artists have been coming to us for the greening that we do,” Makowiecki said. “They’re really excited to learn how they can have less of an environmental impact.”

Premedical sophomore Leslie Rabaut said she is a fan of Drake and plans to purchase tickets for the show once they go on sale.

“I am definitely going to get tickets,” she said. “I am really excited. He is up and coming and people really like his songs. It will be a really good concert.”

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