Not Like Us, it is like them — Kendrick Lamar and SZA will hit the highway collectively in 2025.
On Tuesday morning, Lamar and SZA introduced the Grand Nationwide Tour, which can hit 19 stadiums throughout North America subsequent spring and summer season, making a lone Canadian cease in Toronto on June 12.
The information arrives lower than two weeks after Lamar launched his newest album, GNX, which options SZA on two tracks: Luther and the nearer Gloria. In a evaluate, AP described the album as leaning into the identical creativity-juicing pleasure, self-righteous anger and supreme confidence that fuelled the Grammy-nominated Not Like Us and received his feud with Drake: “I kill ’em all earlier than I let ’em kill my pleasure.”
Lamar’s Not Like Us, launched on Might 4, is a diss observe in opposition to Drake, certainly one of a number of that the rappers exchanged earlier this yr. In it, he questions the Canadian rapper’s authenticity and claims he’s a sexual predator. It was seen because the breakout hit of the feud, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
Whereas the feud could also be over, it seems the hatchet is just not buried.
Final month, Drake launched two authorized actions in opposition to Common Music Group, the distributor for the file labels of each Drake and Lamar, in relation to the rap beef. The preliminary petition alleged UMG and streamer Spotify conspired to falsely increase the recognition of Lamar’s diss observe amid the beef between the 2 hip-hop superstars.
The second motion accused the music big of defamation and claiming it might have halted the discharge of Kendrick Lamar’s tune Not Like Us for “falsely accusing him of being a intercourse offender.”
Along with calling Drake a “licensed pedophile,” Lamar says within the tune: “Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger, You higher not ever go to Cell Block 1.”
A petition, which is what each of Drake’s filings are, comes previous to a lawsuit and is geared toward preserving and acquiring data from figures that may assist Drake’s accusations in a future lawsuit, in accordance with Bryan Sullivan, a founding accomplice on the legislation agency Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae who makes a speciality of threat administration within the leisure business.
Consultants have referred to as the petitions unprecedented and say they may haven’t solely authorized, however important cultural implications for Drake and the world of hip-hop.
Spotify has declined to remark to The Related Press on the filings.
UMG instructed the AP in a press release that the “suggestion that UMG would do something to undermine any of its artists is offensive and unfaithful.”
“We make use of the best moral practices in our advertising and marketing and promotional campaigns. No quantity of contrived and absurd authorized arguments on this pre-action submission can masks the truth that followers select the music they need to hear.”
Not one of the allegations have been confirmed in courtroom.
Lamar and SZA’s tour kicks off on April 19 in Minneapolis, then hits Houston; Arlington, Texas; Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Philadelphia; East Rutherford, N.J.; Foxborough, Massachusetts; Seattle; Los Angeles; Glendale, Ariz.; San Francisco; Las Vegas; St. Louis; Chicago; Detroit; Toronto; Hersey, Penn.; and Washington, D.C.
Tickets go on sale Friday. A pre-sale for Money App Visa Card holders will launch a day earlier.
