Kendrick Lamar tickets

It's been five years since Kendrick Lamar released his last album, DAMN. Since then, he's won a Pulitzer Prize, been nominated for an Oscar, ...

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The 34-year-old singer crashed streaming websites with the launch of his new album and has received rave reviews from fans and even rapper Eminem, leading to ...

- November 4– Newcastle, UK – Utilita Arena Prices start from £64.20 for the events not including the £2.95 admin fee also charged. The tour will be supported by Baby Keem and Tanna Leone, with the nearest gig to Liverpool in Manchester's AO Arena or Birmingham's Utilita Arena.

Kendrick Lamar has announced a new Rod Laver Arena show in Melbourne and Qudos Bank Arena show in Sydney for his 2022 Australian tour.

Featuring guest spots from Dr. Dre and Jay Rock amongst others, the record has most certainly remained a favourite among Lamar’s fanbase even as he ventured into Pulitzer Prize winning territory. Lamar’s sophomore album, the follow up to 2011’s Section 80, saw the Compton rapper flex his rhythmic flow in a gritty and brilliantly entertaining manner. Lamar’s fifth studio album, marking over a decade since he debuted with Section.80, was released to essentially universal acclaim, and features some of his most challenging and spirited work yet.

Five years after the release of his previous album, Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” on May 13.

The title track of Lamar’s “m.A.A.d. city” album was especially well-received. Wearing black jeans and what appeared to be a flannel pajama top, he launched his 2016 Essence set with the pronouncement, “Let’s get it.” “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” is not, in any sense, a party album, something that should come as no surprise to Lamar fans. Five years after the release of his previous album, Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” on May 13. The Big Steppers Tour currently spans a total of 65 dates on three different continents. “Y’all know y’all’s s***!” he enthused. During the 2016 Grammys, he presided over a highly theatrical performance on a jailhouse set surrounded by African-inspired dancers. A winning smile accompanied an endearing habit of engaging individual fans as brethren. He generally rises to the occasion for high-profile media appearances. Will Lamar roll out elaborate, eye-popping technology to enhance his rapping, as Drake has done on recent tours? Mixed reviews are not something to which he is accustomed. It contains moments of sublime beauty and frustrating tediousness….There’s little here that screams out for obvious radio play.”

“Sorry I didn't save the world,” Kendrick Lamar says in the final moments of Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his new double album.

A verse in “Die Hard” that asks, “Can I open up?”—a question implicitly pitched both to a lover and to the listening public—is a lot less interesting than the moments when Lamar simply opens up. “See, I was taught words was nothing more than a sound,” Lamar says late on “Auntie Diaries,” by way of explaining what he came to figure out: that words, in fact, do have power. When the album culminates in a chronicle of traumas on the trembling “Mother I Sober,” Lamar seems convinced that speaking the unspeakable can heal. Perhaps the number of listeners who will have their mind changed for the better outweighs the number of people who will feel emboldened to rap along with slurs (or worse). But remember, this is Lamar’s “I am not your savior” album. When Lamar delves into his sexual history with white women on “Worldwide Steppers,” it is one of a few passages that will have audiences asking, What the hell am I listening to? “Take off the fake deep, take off the fake woke,” Lamar raps on “N95,” a catalog of things people use to cover up the truths about themselves. He has supposedly stripped off the mantle of social responsibility to humbly share his truth, in the language that feels natural to him. Expressed in curling, vivid rhymes—“I fought like a pitbull terrier, blood I shed could fill up aquariums,” goes one line from the monumental “Count Me Out”—this is the sort of virtuosic analysis that Lamar is known for. The track is inarguably excellent—fierce, hilarious, memorable—until the beat drops out and Lamar asks, “What the fuck is cancel culture, dawg?” Here is the asterisk, the prickle. But the Mr. Morale opener, “United in Grief,” pushes that fun-house sensibility further as it careens between luminous chants, tart piano stabs, and jackhammering drum solos. He compares this story line with the Black experience in America more broadly, illustrating how racism instills a sense of loss that festers dangerously within the communities it wounds. Movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo both fed into, and fed off of, celebrity art-slash-activism, but so did the media’s merchants of backlash and division.

Kendrick Lamar's Big Steppers tour will kick off this July - here are the dates, tickets and prices.

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