Lil Tjay Is Beating The Odds And Departing On New Tour

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on July 17, 2023649 Views

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 09: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Lil Tjay performs during day three of Wireless Festival 2023 at Finsbury Park on July 09, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

Lil Tjay is heading out on tour later this year.

Over the weekend Lil Tjay dropped his highly anticipated new album 222. The album features Summer Walker, The Kid LAROI, Fivio Foreign, Jadakiss, NBA Youngboy, Polo G, and Coco Jones. Now according to Uproxx, Lil Tjay is taking the album on the road. The 22-date tour will begin in September in Pittsburgh. From there he will travel around the United States and Canada, with four stops in between in New Zealand and Australia. He returns to the States and plays the final show of the tour in San Francisco on December 15th.

This is the first time Tjay will be on tour since he beat the odds by surviving a near-lethal shooting last year. It's an event he reflects on throughout the new album, specifically on the track "June 22nd" which was released one full year after it happened. That served as the first single for 222. It was followed up a few weeks later by "Project Walls" which featured NBA Youngboy. The tour announcement cites "special guests" that will be along for the ride with Tjay on tour. No official announcement has been made about who might be joining him but that hasn't stopped fans from speculating.

Lil Tjay Announces 2023 Tour

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 09: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Lil Tjay performs live on the main stage during day three of Wireless Festival 2023 at Finsbury Park on July 09, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

One of the standout tracks from Lil Tjay's new album is "Stressed" with Summer Walker. Additionally the song already has an accompanying music video that sees the pair at their most somber. The video has almost 500k views in just a few days.

There was supposed to be another collaboration with a beloved R&B girl on Lil Tjay's new album. SZA was working on a track with the rapper but it never officially materialized. According to SZA herself she "punked out" on the collab thinking she didn't bring enough to the track. What do you think of Lil Tjay announcing his 2023 tour? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.