Kendrick Lamar is taking his latest album GNX on the road next year with help from close collaborator and former TDE labelmate SZA.
Keeping his foot on the gas, the Compton rap star announced the Grand National Tour on Tuesday (December 3), a North American trek in support of his surprise project, which features multiple appearances from the SOS singer.
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The 21-city arena tour kicks off on April 19 in Minneapolis, MN and wraps up on June 18 in Landover, MD, with stops in cities such as Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Chicago along the way.
The roadshow will also swing through Kendrick’s native Los Angeles and SZA’s birthplace of St. Louis, as well as the hometown of Kendrick’s fierce rival Drake, Toronto.
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Presale for the Grand National Tour begins on Wednesday (December 4) at 10 a.m. via Cash App, while general tickets go on sale at the same time on Friday (December 6) through the tour’s official website.
Check out the tour poster and full dates below.
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Kendrick Lamar & SZA — Grand National Tour:
Apr 19 — Minneapolis, MN & U.S. Bank Stadium
Apr 23 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
Apr 26 — Dallas, TX @ AT&T Stadium
Apr 29 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium
May 3 — Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium
May 5 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field
May 8 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
May 9 — East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
May 12 — Foxboro, MA @ Gillette Stadium
May 17 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
May 21 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
May 23 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
May 27 — Glendale, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
May 29 — San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park
May 31 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
Jun 4 — St. Louis, MO @ The Dome at America’s Center
Jun 6 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
Jun 10 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
Jun 12 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
Jun 16 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
Jun 18 — Landover, MD @ Northwest Stadium
The news comes hot on the heels of GNX debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with 319,000 equivalent units in its first week.
It marks Kendrick Lamar’s sixth consecutive chart-topping album following To Pimp a Butterfly, untitled unmastered., DAMN., Black Panther: The Album and Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
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The project’s sales tally is the biggest of any new rap album this year, eclipsing Tyler, The Creator‘s Chromakopia (299,500), Eminem‘s The Death of Slim Shady (281,000) and Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Don’t Trust You (251,000).
King Kendrick also reigns supreme on the Billboard Hot 100, occupying seven of the top 10 spots on this week’s singles chart.
“Squabble Up” sits in pole position to become Kendrick’s third number one single this year — after “Not Like Us” and “Like That” — and fifth overall.
The remaining top five spots also belong to the Pulitzer Prize winner in fellow GNX cuts “TV Off,” “Luther” with SZA, “Wacced Out Murals” and “Hey Now.”
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The 2Pac-sampling “Reincarnated” and Nas-inspired “Man at the Garden” trail closely behind at number eight and nine, respectively, bringing Kendrick’s career total of Hot 100 hits to 22.
A deluxe edition of GNX has been teased by “TV Off” co-star Lefty Gunplay, who recently told Bootleg Kev: “He has some stuff in the chamber […] I know he’s got a deluxe version coming out.”
