Hip-hop star DaBaby has had a concert in New Orleans cancelled reportedly because of low ticket sales.

The controversial rapper, 30 — whose real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk — was due to perform at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans this Friday, September 2, alongside NoCap and Showtek.

A seating chart on ticketing agency, Ticketmaster, showed only a few hundred seats had been sold in the 14,000-capacity venue and that tickets weren't even on offer in the upper bowl due to lack of demand.

The webpage on Ticketmaster for the show now appears with a message that reads "unfortunately, the event organizer has had to cancel your event."

DaBaby's representatives and promoters are pointing fingers at each other as the reason for canceling the show, with the latter saying it was "likely" a replacement show with a bigger line-up was in the works.

Clear Bizness Entertainment and 70/30 were promoting the event, with Euell "7th Ward Shorty" Sylvester and Greg Pulver representing the respective companies.

The two men described the show as "postponed" rather than canceled due to "a number of business reasons why we saw best to do that. We decided to postpone, and that was in our best interest."

"We're working on a future date and possibly additional performers," Pulver told nola.com, adding DaBaby was "most likely" to be involved in the new lineup.

However, the booking agency that represents DaBaby said it was the rapper's team who canceled the show because the promoters were allegedly in breach of contract.

"DaBaby's New Orleans show was pulled by the artist's team due to the promoter being in breach of contract," said Andrew Lieber, CEO of the bookers MAC Agency.

"DaBaby will be back in New Orleans very soon to make it up to his fans." Lieber denied the postponement was due to low ticket sales.

The promoters also denied the claims they had breached their contract. "The public information being released is false, and we didn't authorize anyone to announce the cancellation of this event," Pulver said in a statement.

"Due to unforeseen circumstances, our intentions and actions have been to work with the Smoothie King Center and artist management to postpone this event. We are in the process of working with all parties involved to announce future dates and times."

Fans took to Twitter to point out that DaBaby was on a career trajectory to become one of the most popular rappers since his debut in 2019, but a string of controversial episodes has seen his star power decline.

"The rise and fall of DaBaby could be made into a Netflix special. Man went from the hottest rapper in 2019 to arguably the worst rapper alive," wrote one fan.

Another added: "Be careful out here 🙏 had two tickets to the dababy concert in my car, and someone broke in and left 3 more."

A third commented: "DaBaby not even a plant you can go back and watch his rise to fame and you can see him squander it in real time," while another wrote: "Kinda naive of the promoter to think he was gonna pack an arena at this point of his career. Maybe a smaller venue would have made sense."

DaBaby has been embroiled in a string of controversies including a fallout after his homophobic comments last year.

The "Masterpiece" rapper made offensive comments about gay people and people living with HIV at the Rolling Loud Miami music festival in July 2021.

He attempted to salvage his career after being widely condemned and dropped from festival lineups by meeting with nine advocacy groups in a virtual, private meeting to discuss HIV facts and share personal stories of living and thriving with the disease.

Around 125 organizations had written an open letter condemning the rapper's comments.

"At a time when HIV continues to disproportionately impact Black Americans and queer and transgender people of color, a dialogue is critical," the HIV advocates wrote in the letter. "We must address the miseducation about HIV expressed in your comments, and the impact it has on various communities."

Then, only a few months after that controversy, DaBaby came under fire for calling the police on the mother of his then-3-month-old daughter, Velour, as she fed the newborn.

Singer DaniLeigh and DaBaby both posted their argument on Instagram Live after he ordered her to leave the apartment they shared in the middle of the night.

DaBaby released a lengthy statement after the exchange, telling fans: "Based on my reputation, with multiple threats of setting up an internet scheme & a person refusing to not let me go. Me and somebody else here knew to record her. I done been beat on and yelled at and chased around like one of them fatal love attraction type girls."

He said that he didn't want to press charges but to have "her peacefully removed."

Following DaBaby's statement, DaniLeigh released one of her own, telling her side of the story, how the rapper was annoyed at her for having emergency contraception sent to his home.

"Since Baby want put up a "statement" with his cap a*s, I'll put mine up ... so we have been living with each other for the past three months since our baby been born. Tonight he wanna come in the room talking bout 'I need to go' don't matter where I go...mind u...I have a newborn child," DaniLeigh wrote.

"This man is mad because I had a plan B sent to his condo." The statements were all posted on Instagram Stories and can be read on The Shade Room's Instagram.

Then, earlier this year, police were called to DaBaby's North Carolina home following reports of a shooting.

The Troutman Police Department stated on Facebook that officers were called at around 7:45 p.m., where they found "one subject suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound."

DaBaby was also involved in a deadly shooting inside a Walmart in Huntersville, North Carolina, a suburb outside of Charlotte.

Police arriving on the scene on November 5, 2018, discovered the body of 19-year-old Jalyn Domonique Craig. DaBaby was one of four people detained for questioning.

Later taking to his Instagram account to address the incident, DaBaby said that he was shopping in the store with his children when Craig and another man, who was carrying a weapon, robbed him and threatened his family.

At the time, DaBaby insisted that he didn't pull the trigger in the subsequent fight that occurred inside the store.

While DaBaby was initially charged with murder, the charges were lowered to a misdemeanor of carrying a concealed weapon.

The charges were adjusted after Walmart's security footage corroborated DaBaby's account of events. He was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and 12 months of unsupervised probation. No one was charged for Craig's death.

His other legal troubles also included being detained in Miami in 2020 over an alleged robbery from a promoter he said owed him money.

DaBaby was arrested while in Miami police custody after they found a warrant out for his arrest in Texas over a battery charge.

The rapper was also booed off stage without performing any songs in Tampa after he slapped a female fan. DaBaby claimed her camera was too close to his face with the flash on. He wrote on Instagram: "I think by this time, you know it's a well known fact that male or female, I would've responded the same exact way."

In February this year, a video showed DaBaby and his crew allegedly assaulting his ex DaniLeigh's brother at a bowling alley in Los Angeles.

DaBaby shot to fame in 2019 when he was signed to Interscope Records and started his own imprint, Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment.

He finished out that year with 22 entries on the Billboard Top 100 chart, the most of any artist that year.

Newsweek has reached out to DaBaby's representatives for comment.

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