Polo G has settled a legal dispute over a planned European tour he cancelled in 2023, ending dueling contract and intellectual property theft claims between the Chicago rapper and a Dutch concert booking agency.
The rapper (Taurus Bartlett) was in the middle of exchanging evidence via the legal discovery process with booking agency J. Noah B.V. when the two sides reached a settlement, according to a Friday (June 20) order from a federal judge in New York.
“The court having been advised that all claims asserted herein have been settled in principle, it is ordered that the above-entitled action be and is hereby dismissed,” writes Judge Jesse M. Furman.
Settlement terms have not been disclosed in court filings. Lawyers for Polo G and J. Noah did not immediately return Billboard’s requests for details on the agreement.
The litigation stemmed from a planned 11-city European tour that Polo G hired J. Noah to book and promote. Under the agreement, the rapper was supposed to perform shows in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and Denmark in November and December 2023.
But the tour never happened. In his 2023 lawsuit, Polo G alleged that he canceled the shows due to an injury, and he accused J. Noah of violating intellectual property law by continuing to promote the dates using his name and image after their deal was terminated.
J. Noah told a different story, however, in a counter-lawsuit it filed against the rapper earlier this year. The touring agency said Polo G’s “excuses” for canceling the shows were false, and that he therefore did not have a right to abandon their contract.
The agency sought through its countersuit to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars it supposedly spent preparing for Polo G’s cancelled tour, including money deposited to secure venues and production staffers for the shows.
