The cancelations continue to mount for the five-time Grammy award winner.
Singer-songwriter CeeLo Green has been dropped as the headliner for the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana, according to ABC News.
Organizers for the Gretna, La.-based festival issued a statement announcing the rapper’s departure from the festival. He will be replaced by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
According to a local New Orleans newspaper, Green was dropped from the Oct. 5 festival for his recent spell of negative publicity, specifically the rapper’s comments in regard to rape allegations on Twitter.
“Our community does not condone these disparaging remarks delivered by Cee Lo Green, and we feel this entertainer does not represent what our festival is about and has achieved over the past 20 years,” said Ricky Templet, the Jefferson Parish councilman and festival co-chair.
Just last week the performer plead no contest to slipping ecstasy to a former girlfriend at a Los Angeles dinner that occurred in 2012. The woman claimed that she later woke up next to Green in bed. She told police that she woke up naked and believed that she had been raped.
Although pleading no contest in court, Green went took to Twitter to plead his case to the masses.
“Women who have really been raped REMEMBER,” tweeted the rapper. He also tweeted that “if someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously so WITH Implies consent.”
He later deleted his comments.
However, his actions proved irreversible.
Not only has he been dropped from his hosting gig on the hit show The Voice following his criminal charges — and later dropped from the Gretna Heritage Festival for his Twitter comments — but Green’s TBS show has also been canceled after one season for the same reasons.
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