Watch Kendrick Lamar kick off his ‘The Huge Steppers’ world tour in Oklahoma

Kendrick Lamar has kicked off his ‘The Huge Steppers’ world tour in Oklahoma, showcasing a number of tracks from his new album.

• READ MORE: Kendrick Lamar reside at Glastonbury 2022: thought-provoking rapper takes the Pyramid Stage

The rapper premiered seven tracks from ‘Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers’ for the primary time on the Paycom Middle and introduced on Child Keem for his or her collaboration ‘Household Ties’.

Throughout the present he gave ‘Worldwide Steppers’, ‘Father Time’, ‘Purple Hearts’, ‘Die Arduous’, ‘Auntie Diaries’, ‘Crown’ and ‘Mr Morale’ their first reside outings because the rapper introduced on Tanna Leone on the latter observe. You possibly can view footage beneath.

The present was Lamar’s first of a raft of US dates earlier than he hits European and UK shores in October and November, together with two reveals at The O2 in London on November 7-8.

The present comes simply weeks after Lamar headlined Glastonbury which noticed him chanting “Godspeed for girls’s rights” in reference to the US Supreme Court docket’s latest determination to overturn Roe v. Wade.

An evening later he joined Child Keem on stage in the course of the latter’s gig in London the place the pair carried out the tracks ‘Household Ties’ and ‘Vent’ from Keem’s September 2021 debut album ‘The Melodic Blue’.

Lamar’s tour will now name on the Moody Middle in Austin tonight (July 21). Any remaining tickets for his US dates can be found here. Tickets for his UK reveals are additionally obtainable here.

Kendrick Lamar performed:

‘United In Grief’
‘N95’
‘ELEMENT’
‘Worldwide Steppers’
‘Backseat Freestyle’
‘Wealthy’ 
‘Wealthy Spirit’
‘HUMBLE’
‘Father Time’
‘m.A.A.d metropolis’
‘We Cry Collectively’
‘Purple Hearts’
‘Alright’
‘Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe’
‘Die Arduous’
‘LUST’
‘DNA’
‘Cash Bushes’
‘LOVE’
‘Household Ties’
‘Mirror’
‘LOYALTY’
‘Auntie Diaries’
‘Silent Hill’
‘Crown’
‘Mr. Morale’
‘Rely Me Out’
‘Savior’

Reviewing Lamar’s new document, NME awarded it 5 stars and described it as a “cathartic, soul-bearing autobiography”.