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Kendrick Lamar Announces good kid, m.A.A.d. city World Tour Dates

music-kendrick-lamar_jpeg-1280x960Kendrick Lamar, the acclaimed Top Dawg Entertainment artist, is taking his gold, #1 R&B/Hip-Hop good kid, m.A.A.d city album on the road across America and around the globe with the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour.  Hot on the heels of his 30+ performance Verge Campus Tour which kicked off March 29 and runs through mid-May, the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour launches May 21st and spans 16 U.S. dates from coast to coast plus 30 festivals in more than a dozen European countries and Japan.  Accompanying Lamar on all of the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour U.S. dates will be ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock.  

Throw in several additional U.S. festivals–SUNFEST in West Palm Beach, FL (May 5), Sweetlife Festival in Columbia, MD (May 11), Sungod Festival in La Jolla, CA (May 17), Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL (May 18), Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall’s Island, NY (June 8), Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN (June 16), Firefly Music Festival in Dover, DE (June 22), Del Mar Fair in San Diego, CA (June 28), Kanrocksas Music Festival in Kansas City, KS (June 29) and Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL (August 3)–and Lamar will be one of the busiest rappers performing this year.  

Lamar’s debut major label album, good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope), released October 22, 2012, debuted at #1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts and #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Date

City

Venue

May 5

West Palm Beach, FL SUNFEST *

11

Columbia, MD Sweetlife Festival*

17

La Jolla, CA Sungod Festival*

18

Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Festival*

22

Las Vegas, NV Cosmopolitan

23

Salt Lake City, UT The Great Saltair

29

Portland, ME The Waterfront At Ocean Gateway

30

Albany, NY Armory

Jun 1

Junction, VT Champion Valley Exposition     

3

Belle Vernon, PA Ice Garden

4

Cleveland, OH Jacob Pavilion at Nautica

5

Detroit, MI Chene Park

6

Indianapolis, IN Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn

8

Randall’s Island, NY Govenors Ball*

10

Baton Rouge, LA Baton Rouge River Center

11

Houston, TX Reliant Arena

12

Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre

13

New Braunfels, TX Whitewater Amphitheatre

16

Manchester, TN Bonnaroo*   

19

St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre

20

Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle

21

Simpsonville, SC Charter Amphitheatre

22

Dover, DE Firefly Music Festival*

23

Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheatre

26

Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre

28

San Diego, CA Del Mar Fair*

29

Kansas City, KS Kanrocksas*

29

Los Angeles, CA BET Experience

Jul  3

Gdynia, PL Heineken Open’er Festival

4

Roskilde, DK Roskilde Festival

5

Zurich, SE Touch the Lake Festival

6

Haachtsesteenweg, BE Rock Werchter Festival

7

Arras, FR Main Square Festival

8

Birmingham, UK Academy

9

Manchester, UK Apollo

10

Leeds, UK Academy

11

Grafenhainichen, DE Splash Festival

12

Kinross-shire, UK T in the Park Festival

13

London, UK Wireless Festival

14

Rotterdam, NL North Sea Jazz Festival

17

Montreaux, CH Montreaux Jazz Festival

18

Molde, NO Molde Jazz Festival

19

Tonsberg, NO Slottsfjell                           

20

Pori, FI Pori Jazz Festival

27

Naeba, JP Fuji Rock Festival

Aug  2

Toronto, CA Sound Academy

3

Chicago, IL Lollapalooza* 

4

Montreal, CA Osheaga Music Festival

8

Oslo, NO Oya Festival

9

Helsinki, FI Flow Festival    

10

Gothenburg, SE Way Out West    

15

Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop Festival

16

Biddinghuizen, NL Lowlands Festival

17

Chelmsford, UK V Festival

18

South Staffordshire, UK V Festival

20

Glasgow, UK Bellahouston Park

22

Paris, FR Stade de France              

23

Paris, FR Rock En Seine Festival  

24

Hradec Kralove, CZ Hip Hop Kemp Festival
     
* Denotes Festival