Kendrick Lamar is embarking upon a massive tour in support of his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
On Friday (May 13), Kendrick announced the dates for The Big Steppers Tour, which will make 65 stops across three continents and also feature Baby Keem and Tanna Leone on selected dates. The tour kicks off on July 19, in Oklahoma City, before cross-crossing North America. On Oct. 7, Kendrick takes the show across The Pond for several shows in the U.K. including multiple stops at the 02 Arena. From there, the five-month tour makes stop five stops in Australia before closing out on Dec. 16, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Tickets go on sale starting Fri., May 20 at noon PST on oklama.com.
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The tour announcement comes hours after Kendrick Lamar released his fifth studio album. The two-disk LP features 18 songs with guest appearances from Kodak Black, Ghostface Killah, Baby Keem, Summer Walker and more. The album is already breaking records for Kendrick, having reportedly achieved his biggest streaming day of all time on Spotify.
See the tour dates for Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming jaunt below.
Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers Tour Dates
July 19 – Oklahoma City, Olka. – Paycom Center July 21 – Austin, Texas – Moody Center July 22 – Houston, Texas – Toyota Center July 23 – Dallas, Texas – American Airlines Center July 24 – Miami, Fla. – Rolling Loud July 27 – Tampa, Fla. – Amalie Arena July 29 – New Orleans, La. – Smoothie King Center July 30 – Atlanta, Ga. – State Farm Arena July 31 – Nashville, Tenn. – Bridgestone Arena Aug. 2 – Charlotte, N.C. – Spectrum Center Aug. 4 – Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena Aug. 5 – Brooklyn, N.Y. – Barclays Center Aug. 6 – Brooklyn, N.Y. – Barclays Center Aug. 7 – Long Island, N.Y. – UBS Arena Aug. 9 – Philadelphia, Penn. – Wells Fargo Center Aug. 10 – Boston, Mass. – TD Garden Aug. 12 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena Aug. 13 – Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena Aug. 14 – Detroit, Mich – Little Caesars Arena Aug. 16 – Columbus, Ohio – Schottenstein Center Aug. 18 – Milwaukee, Wis. – Fiserv Forum Aug. 19 – Chicago, Ill. – United Center Aug. 20 – Minneapolis, Minn. – Xcel Energy Center Aug. 21 – Kansas City, Mo. – T-Mobile Center Aug. 23 – Denver, Colo. – Ball Arena Aug. 24 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Vivint Smart Home Arena Aug. 26 – Portland, Ore. – Moda Center Aug. 27 – Seattle, Wash. – Climate Pledge Arena Aug. 28 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena Aug. 30 – Sacramento, Calif. – Golden 1 Center Aug. 31 – Oakland, Calif. – Oakland Arena Sept. 1 – Oakland, Calif. – Oakland Arena Sept. 6 – San Diego, Calif. – Viejas Arena at San Diego State University Sept. 7 – Anaheim, Calif. – Honda Center Sept. 9 – Las Vegas, Nev. – T-Mobile Arena Sept. 10 – Phoenix, Ariz. – Footprint Center Sept. 14 – Los Angeles, Calif. – Crypto.com Arena Sept. 15 – Los Angeles, Calif. – Crypto.com Arena Oct. 7 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome Oct. 10 – Prague, CZ – O2 Arena Oct. 11 – Berlin, DE – Mercedes-Benz Arena Oct. 13 – Hamburg, DE – Barclays Arena Oct. 15 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena Oct. 17 – Stockholm, SE – Avicii Arena Oct. 19 – Oslo, NO – Telenor Arena Oct. 21 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena Oct. 24 – Stuttgart, DE – Scheleyerhalle Oct. 25 – Zurich, CH – Hallenstadion Oct. 26 – Laussane, CH – Vaudoise Aréna Oct. 28 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis Oct. 30 – Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena Oct. 31 – Frankfurt, DE – Festhalle Nov. 2– Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Nov. 3 – Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena Nov. 4 – Newcastle, UK – Utilita Arena Nov. 5 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena Nov. 7 – London, UK – The O2 Nov. 8 – London, UK – The O2 Nov. 13 – Dublin, IE – 3Arena Nov. 16 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena Dec. 1 – Perth, AUS – RAC Arena Dec. 4 – Melbourne, AUS – Rod Laver Arena Dec. 8 – Sydney, AUS – Qudos Bank Arena Dec. 12 – Brisbane, AUS – Entertainment Center Dec. 16 – Auckland, NZ – Spark Arena
Read 10 Wild Stories That Took Place During Hip-Hop Tours
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“We did this show in Atlanta on Ty [Dolla $ign]’s tour. We was all on the tour bus and it was a bunch of people I didn’t meet. Ty’s tour bus was like the fuckin’ Source Awards. But everybody was on there—Trouble, Migos, everybody. I’m going to introduce myself to everybody and everybody would be like, ‘Come on, dog, we know who you are. When we workin’? What we doin’?’ That was crazy, but I brought Jermaine [Dupri] out. I brought Hoodrich Pablo Juan out and he did a song; I brought [Lil] Scrappy out and he did ‘Head Bussa.’ And then I closed my set with Jermaine and he did ‘Welcome to Atlanta’ in Atlanta and the whole crowd went crazy. Like, no one really brings JD out to do that, so I’m thinking that’s Jay-Z level. That’s crazy. Do we have footage? I need that.”
“I had a room, right? So I go in my hotel room and it was a girl that worked there. I don’t know if she got drunk and got bold to do it, but when I go back in the room, she came out the drawer. She hid in my room until I got back and came out of the drawer. I think we were in Houston. I put her out—you gotta roll.”
“We were on the road with Dizzy Wright. I think it was like, Albuquerque, N.M. Or it might have been El Paso—one of those fuckin’ places. There were a bunch of fans arguing and screaming in the parking lot. Our security—his name is DJ—came and got me and was like, ‘Yo, you gotta check this out.’
My first reaction is to jump in between them and try to make sure that everything’s cool, you know? Didn’t realize these kids were heavily gang-affiliated. Have you have ever seen that movie, Only the Strong, where they sing, ‘Ba, na, na, weh,’ and they’re kinda stabbing at each other with knives and shit? It was some shit like that and I was in between them. They were trying to poke each other so I was like, ‘Y’all wanna keep having hip-hop shows? Y’all gotta stop this shit right now,’ so the crowd kinda dispersed. I foolishly thought it dispersed because I made an impact and I was like, ‘Yeah, I fuckin’ killed this shit, brought the peace in.’ Two seconds later, you hear tires screeching—one of the kids who was involved in the tussle, his people had pulled up. Crowd scatters. I’m not a street dude, like, fuck that shit. So I was like fuck it, I booked it to the merch, behind the merch truck. I was duckin’ and then the fighting still kept ongoing.
Have you ever seen a hockey fight where they pull the shirt over? So these kids, one of them pulled the shirt over, he finally cut the other kid and he was just laying, bleeding in the parking lot. It was crazy. The police were on their own schedule. It was a good five, six minutes that passed. At a Dizzy Wright show, too. We’re like, peaceful; everybody’s chillin’.”
“I was fuckin’ performing and I just see something fly on the stage. This huge-ass item fly on the stage. Boom! I stopped the show. ‘Yo, what the fuck? Who the fuck threw this shit on the stage?’ I see a group of dudes ganged up in the corner. I’m like, ‘Yo listen, I’ma fuck yall niggas up!’ I continue the show, go home. I go in my Instagram messages, Some girl hits me up. She goes ‘Did you get the cookie, filled with gelato, that I threw on the stage?’ I’m like, ‘Why would you throw some shit on the stage? You threw a cookie of all things. You had niggas in the crowd like, ‘Ohhh,’ why you do that shit?’ I followed her right after though. We’re friends now. I just hit her up the other day like, ‘Yo, you good?'”
“I’ve had crazy things happen. I’ve had a man ask me do I wanna have sex with his wife. Sometimes it won’t be they wife. A muhfucka just be [like], ‘This my gal, you can have her tonight Ke!’ I be like, ‘Nah’. I’m scared of that move really—that’s too strong right there. I don’t want that one. As far as like an autograph, women take they bra off, took they titty out: ‘I want it on here!’ I be like damn! Boy, I’ve had some women go far. They’ll say any goddamn thing.”
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“A whole show getting shut down because I guess it was getting too crazy. They pepper sprayed everyone in the crowd. It was an all-ages show. I had to sneak everyone out the back; it was getting too wild and people were climbing on the stage. It was crazy. It was in [Greater] Sudbury, Canada.”
“My first tour, I went on the road with Tip. I’ve seen people fake pass out so he could run to their aide and try to save them. Then when he come over, they’re perfectly fine. Somebody peed on our tour bus before [laughs]. That’s probably the top two moments.”
“When I was in Sweden, I stayed an extra day to two days. We were like, ‘Fuck it, I’ma just see how many fans I have out here.’ I was like, ‘Yo, meet me here.’ About 80 kids pulled up to my hotel. They’re waiting to just take a picture with me and then dip. Some stayed, brought me weed, smoked it with me.”
