Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour is already a runaway success. The co-headlining jaunt has captured two artists at their commercial zeniths and is the biggest co-headlining tour of all time, according to numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore. Meanwhile the pair’s collaborative single “Luther” ruled the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks as the tour commenced in April.
The run is displaying the pair at their creative peaks, too. Lamar’s GNX preceded his Super Bowl halftime show, a defiant and bold coronation as the scene’s premier showman. SZA’s SOS era — which includes deluxe edition LANA — is proving to be her creative pinnacle, pushing her songwriting and sound into new directions. The duo’s time as labelmates on Top Dawg Entertainment and previous collaborations (2014’s “Babylon” through to 2018 megahit “All the Stars”) has made them a dynamic duo with contrasting but complementary personalities.
No wonder, then, that the Grand National run is one of the U.K. summer’s most anticipated shows. Given that Oasis, Beyoncé, Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey and Sabrina Carpenter have all hit up similar venues in recent months, this is no small feat. The tour hit soccer stadiums venues in Birmingham, England; Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland; Cardiff in Wales and concludes at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a brace of shows. The tour hits mainland Europe next, and concludes following a run in Latin America and Australia in December.
Here are the best moments from Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour stop in London on Wednesday (July 23).
