LOS ANGELES (AP) — Recent off their Tremendous Bowl halftime spectacle, Kendrick Lamar and SZA are increasing their upcoming tour to make stops in Europe.
The extra stops introduced Monday embody a July 4 present in Frankfurt, Germany.
Lamar and SZA are set to kick off their Grand Nationwide Tour in Minneapolis on April 19 and wrap the North American leg in Washington on June 18.
They’ll begin a 13-stop European tour on July 2 in Cologne, Germany, and conclude it on Aug. 9 in Stockholm.
Lamar’s groundbreaking halftime present — he was the primary solo hip-hop performer to headline the coveted halftime slot — was awash in patriotic imagery with dancers in pink, white and blue. Samuel L. Jackson, enjoying Uncle Sam, guided Lamar and viewers by way of the efficiency. SZA joined Lamar onstage for a part of his efficiency.
Jackson’s interjections — labeling components of the efficiency “too loud, too reckless, too ghetto” and at one level reminding Lamar to “play the game” — had been in step with Lamar’s acknowledged intent to infuse storytelling into his halftime present and likewise in step with the Pulitzer Prize winner’s historical past of layering of messages all through his music.
Different European cities that Lamar and SZA plan to go to embody Amsterdam, Paris, London, Rome and Barcelona.
Presales for the exhibits will start Wednesday with common admission ticket gross sales beginning on Friday. Extra data is on the market on the web site www.grandnationaltour.com.