SAN FRANCISCO — “Not Like Us,” it's like them — Kendrick Lamar and SZA will hit the road together in 2025.
On Tuesday morning, Lamar and SZA announced the Grand National Tour, which will hit 19 stadiums across North America next spring and summer, including a stop in Atlanta.
The co-headlined tour will be in San Francisco on May 29 at Oracle Park.
Tickets go on sale Friday. A pre-sale for Cash App Visa Card holders will launch a day earlier.
Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album.
The Grammy winner's 12-track “GNX” is his first release since 2022's “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” and his sixth studio album overall. It also comes just months after his rap battle with Drake.
Lamar first teased the album with a cover art and video snippet of “GNX,” which features multi-instrumentalist Jack Antonoff as a co-producer on every track except for “Peekaboo.” Other notable producers include Sounwave and DJ Mustard, who both contributed production on the hit “Not Like Us,” the ubiquitous diss track emanating from the Drake feud.
Lamar's former Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate SZA appears on a couple songs including “Gloria” and “Luther,” which also features sampled vocals from Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn through “If This World Were Mine."
On the opening track “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar raps about cruising in his Buick GNX (Grand National Experimental) car while listening to Anita Baker. He brings up Snoop Dogg posting Drake's AI-assisted “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss track on social media and Nas congratulating Lamar for being selected to headline February's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans.
Lamar also shows admiration for Lil Wayne, who expressed his hurt feelings after being passed over as the headliner in his hometown.
Lamar, 37, has experienced massive success since his debut album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” in 2012. Since then, he’s accumulated 17 Grammy wins and became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album “DAMN.”
The surprise release caps a big year for Lamar, who was featured on the song “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin — a track that spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year.
Lamar is up for seven Grammys, fueled by “Not Like Us,” which earned nods for record and song of the year, rap song, music video as well as best rap performance. He has two simultaneous entries in the latter category, a career first: “Like That” is up for best rap performance and best rap song, too.
Full list of tour stops is below:
- Apr 19 - Minneapolis, MN - U.S. Bank Stadium
- Apr 23 - Houston, TX - NRG Stadium
- Apr 26 - Arlington, TX - AT&T Stadium
- Apr 29 - Atlanta, GA - Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- May 03 - Charlotte, NC - Bank of America Stadium
- May 05 - Philadelphia, PA - Lincoln Financial Field
- May 08 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
- May 09 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
- May 12 - Foxborough, 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 04 - St. Louis, MO - The Dome at America's Center
- Jun 06 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
- Jun 10 - Detroit, MI - Ford Field
- Jun 12 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre
- Jun 16 - Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium
- Jun 18 - Washington, D.C. - Northwest Stadium
