Kendrick Lamar and Sza: the fever for their tour is going up
Their tour will officially start on April 19th by Minneapolisbut the fever for what in all respects will be a historical event for the hip hop world, and not only, is going up. Kendrick Lamar and Sza will also arrive in ItalySaturday 2 August, For a date at the Olympic Stadium in Rome which is almost sold out: will be the only stage of their Grand National Tour, which, starting from North America, They will present their new partnership in different parts of the world, shown in preview during the Half-Time Show at the Super Bowl Lix in New Orleans. And there are those who dream, in addition to more or less recent collaborations, a real album together: a project far from imaginative As explained by Sza himself during the SherrishowTV. To understand the magical relationship between the two, it is possible to reread the interview that the star of the R & B made Lamar for “Harper’s Bazaar America” in which the two find common ground on telling its vulnerability and on the search for a truth in music. Another on spy that shows how electric air is for the concerts of the two artists, It is provided by the Billboard 100 ranking where “Luther”song signed by the two and played during The Half-Time Showcontent in Lamar’s “Gnx”, he splashed first in the standings.
Even before “Gnx”, the latest effort of the compon rapper, (in addition to “Luther” Sza also appears in another track, “Glory”) The two artists, both launched by the Top Dawg Entertainment, agency founded by Anthony Tiffith, had combined their forces on more than one occasion. As we remembered in a previous article, it was 2014 when they duet together on “Babylon”among the songs contained in the album “Z” by Sza. Three years later, while his name had now ended up on everyone’s mouth thanks to the masterpiece “TO PIMP A Butterfly“, Which in 2020 will become the soundtrack of the protests of Black Lives Matter, the voice of the West Coast returned to appear in an album of Sza, “ctrl”dueting with his colleague on “Doves in the Wind”. A curiosity: in “For salt? (Interlude) “, Piece contained in “To Pimp a Butterfly”, Sza lends his voice to the choirs. In 2018, the year in which Lamar became the first rapper to conquer cleaning for literature with his “Damn”seeing himself recognized by the jury of Intellectuals of Columbia University in New York that “ability to offer images that affect and capture the complexity of today’s African-American society”, theirs “All the stars” It was included in the soundtrack of “Black Panther”. It is not over. In the “Sos deluxe: wool”the extended version of the acclaimed album “Sos” of Sza, with which the American star won the Grammy Award in 2024 in the “Best Progressive R&B Album” category, there is also “30 for 30” With Lamar, another important piece for the duo.
At the 67th edition of the Grammy Awards he triumphed Lamarwinning 5 prizes such as “Registration of the year”, “Song of the year”, “Best Rap song”, “Best performance Rap” and “Best music video” for the individual “Not like us”. The track, which has become a hymn and a hit, which puts the rival Drake in the sights, triumphed in all five categories in which he was named. At the beginning of 2024, however, the album “SOS” of the colleague received 9 nominations and won 3 Grammy Award: Best Progressive R&B Album, Best R&B Song for “Snooze,” and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Ghost in the Machine”. The collaborative traces between the two will certainly be in the lineup, but there will be surprises: The most famous songs of their solitary careers in addition to, it is to be expected, of the new feat between the two.
