In March, Pharrell's 25-year-old cousin Donovan Lynch was shot and killed by police in Virginia Beach. Now, blaming "toxic energy" from city officials in the wake of his relative's death, Pharrell has announced that his music festival Something In The Water will not return to the city in 2022, and possibly ever again, according to WAVY.
Pharrell wrote a letter to Virginia Beach City Manager Patrick Duhaney outling his decision and drawing a line between the city's responses to Lynch's death and a 2019 shooting. "I love my city," he wrote, "but for far too long it has been run by and with toxic energy.
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