Rapper Kendrick Lamar Announces Show In Phoenix

PHOENIX, AZ —Rapper Kendrick Lamar on Friday announced details of his "The Big Steppers Tour," which will visit 34 North American cities this summer, including Phoenix.

At 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, Lamar will play Footprint Center. The show also will feature Baby Keem, who is Lamar's cousin, and Tanner Leone. Tickets for the concert will go on general sale at noon MST on May 20 on Lamar's website oklama.com and Ticketmaster.

A Live Nation presale will take place on May 19.

Lamar announced his North American tour dates on the same day his long-awaited album "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" dropped. It's his first album since 2017's "DAMN," which debuted at No. 1, went triple platinum in just over a year and won five Grammy awards.

The album also earned Lamar the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, becoming the first non-jazz or classical record to win the award.

On the Pulitzer Prize website, the album is described as "a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life."

The new album, which is Lamar's last for longtime label Top Dawg Entertainment, features guest vocalists like: Sampha, Summer Walker, Blxst, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, actress Taylour Paige and rappers Baby Keem, Ghostface Killah and Kodak Black.

The North American leg of "The Big Steppers Tour" will begin July 19 in Oklahoma City and end with two shows in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15. Lamar then will embark on a 21-city European tour and a five-city tour of Australia and New Zealand.