Speaking to the subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy, the rap-rocker-turned-country-singer said Live Nation and Ticketmaster "fooled" the government into approving their 2010 merger, Billboard reports. Dan Wall, Live Nation's VP for legal affairs, also testified at the hearing. Wall denied that Live Nation and Ticketmaster have a monopoly, arguing that the FTC has overstated their market share. In his own opening statement, Rock told the subcommittee, "Independent venues have been crushed. He described the Live Nation/Ticketmaster arrangement as a "cartel" and suggested that even if Live Nation and Ticketmaster are broken up, the government would also need to institute a 10% limit on resale ticket pricing to truly solve the problem.