Tickets sold out Tuesday morning for rapper Wiz Khalifa’s December concert at Syracuse University after a long line led out the doors of Schine Student Center.

Nearly 1,500 tickets were purchased in two and a half hours for Khalifa’s show in Goldstein Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Dec. 4, said Joshua Anderson, president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, which is sponsoring the event. The doors will open at 6:15 p.m. for the concert, during which rap artist J. Cole will also perform.

Tickets for general admission were supposed to go on sale for a higher price on Friday, but the box office sold out of all available tickets on Tuesday.

Khalifa, who is known for his hit ‘Black and Yellow,’ was arrested Monday night on marijuana charges after he performed at East Carolina University, according to Yahoo! News.

He posted $300,000 bail and was released but wrote on his Twitter account that ‘jail sux,’ according to the article and MTV News.

Anderson said he was not concerned about the arrest affecting Khalifa’s performance at SU.

‘That’s something that we really can’t control, but we feel like it will be a great show,’ Anderson said.

Students were lined up out the door to purchase tickets at Schine 45 minutes before the box office opened at 9 a.m. on Monday, Anderson said. He said he did not expect a first-day turnout of that size.

‘We knew it’s pretty tough for students to get up that early for any type of event,’ he said.

His fraternity chose to bring Khalifa to SU after surveying students online about which performers they wanted to see most. There were about eight options on the survey, with two performers in each option, Anderson said. He said a substantial number of students voted on the survey, but he could not provide an exact number.

The proceeds from the ticket purchases will go to the nonprofit organization Home Headquarters, which helps create housing opportunities for underserved Central New Yorkers.

mcboren@syr.edu

Published on November 9, 2010 at 12:00 pm