Kendrick Lamar and SZA have announced a co-headlining 2025 stadium trek billed as the Grand National Tour. The 21-date tour’s billing is a nod to Lamar’s surprise-released new LP, GNX, which takes its name from the limited-run 1987 Buick “Grand National Experiment” coup, a model known by many as one of the last great American muscle cars [ticketing details].
The Grand National Tour will begin on April 19th, 2025 at Minneapolis, MN’s U.S. Bank Stadium and continue from there to major football and baseball stadiums around the country throughout the next two months before wrapping at Washington, D.C.’s Northwest Stadium on June 18th. While most of the tour’s stops are one-offs, the Compton-native Lamar and the New Jersey-raised SZA will give a little extra love to their respective home markets with two nights at East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium (5/8, 5/9) and two shows at Los Angeles, CA’s SoFi Stadium (5/21, 5/23).
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The first tickets for US dates to the Grand National Tour will be available for Cash App Card customers via an exclusive ticket presale presented by Cash App. From Wednesday, December 4th at 10:00 a.m. local venue time through Thursday, December 5th at 10:00 p.m. local venue time, Cash App Card cardholders can use the first 9 digits of their Cash App Card to access the pre-sale. In addition to the Cash App Card Presale, Cash App Card holders will receive a 20% instant discount on all official Grand National Tour merch purchased on-site with Cash App Card. For more information on the Grand National Tour Cash App Card pre-sale, head here.
Remaining tickets to the Kendrick Lamar/SZA 2025 tour will go on sale to the general public beginning on Friday, December 6th at 10:00 a.m. local venue time. Find ticketing details here.
Modern R&B maven SZA made waves in 2022 with her second studio LP, SOS, an accompanying arena tour, and a slew of major festival headlining slots. Her next album, Lana, which began as a deluxe edition of SOS and evolved into a new project entirely, was initially due in December but is now expected to arrive in early 2025.
Hip-hop heavyweight Kendrick Lamar, SZA’s former TDE label-mate, has had perhaps his biggest year yet in 2024 thanks in large part to his highly publicized feud with Drake and its resulting diss tracks—chief among them “Not Like Us”, the vitriolic anthem that became one of the summer’s biggest hits. On the back of the success of “Not Like Us”, Lamar was recently tapped to headline the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans in early 2025. Two days after the Super Bowl Halftime Show announcement, he also released an untitled, five-minute track exclusively via Instagram. Fans and media quickly took to calling the song “Watch The Party Die” after Lamar’s lyrics on its chorus.
All of that came before Lamar surprised fans with his sixth studio album, GNX, late last month. The album, which features prominent guest appearances by SZA on two tracks (“luther” and “gloria”), made an immediate splash in the music world, debuting at No. 1 on the December 7th-dated Billboard 200 albums chart. The individual tracks on the album have made an instant impact, too, capturing all five top spots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (“squabble up”, “tv off”, “luther”, “wacced out murals”, “hey now”) and seven of the top ten (including “reincarnated” at No. 8 and “man at the garden” at No. 9).
Kendrick Lamar – “squabble up” (Official Music Video)
Prior to the release of GNX and the announcement of the Grand National Tour, SZA and Kendrick Lamar interviewed each other for a Harper’s Bazaar cover story in which the two discuss their strengths, vulnerabilities, ambitions, egos, and relationship as friends and collaborators. Read that piece here.
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[Photo: Andre D. Wagner – Kendrick Lamar (left) and SZA (right)]