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Kendrick Lamar to bring tour to North West

Seven-time Grammy award-winning Kendrick Lamar is bringing The Damn. Tour to the North West in Spring 2018.

Grammy nominated and Mercury Prize winner James Blake will be a special guest ahead of his performance across the entire tour.

Kendrick Lamar will be heading to the Manchester Arena on Saturday 10th February 2018.

Produced by Live Nation The Damn. Tour will see Kendrick perform 15 dates across 11 different countries beginning on 7th February in Dublin, Ireland at he 3Arena, and includes dates in the UK, Germany, Netherlands,France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

The Damn. Tour follows the release of his critically acclaimed fourth album DAMN. which debuted  at #1 on the Billboard 200 – marking his third time at the top spot – selling north of 2.3 million album units to date and
having amassed over 400 million streams and features 14 tracks observing the complexities of today’s culture.

Pitchfork cites “DAMN. is a widescreen masterpiece of rap, full of expensive beats, furious rhymes, and peerless storytelling about Kendrick’s destiny in America,” and Rolling Stone declares DAMN. a “dazzling display of showy rhyme skills, consciousness-raising political screeds, self-examination and bass-crazy-kicking…”

Tickets for the tour are available here.