Fans of the rapper were left speculating when he posted a countdown with the caption “20 years later” on his Instagram on the 3^rd May. 50 Cent announced the tour on the next day relieving the suspense with the caption, “You’ve waited long enough!”. He added, “I’m hittin’ the globe on this one, making stops across North America and Europe including Toronto, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Houston, Amsterdam, Oslo, Paris, and many more”.

The Final Lap Tour will kick off in July this summer in Salt Lake City with 50 Cent playing across the United States and Canada until mid-September. The rapper will then resume his tour 11 days in Amsterdam and play throughout Europe before finishing the tour in the UK in November.

Supporting 50 Cent across all dates will be his long-time friend Busta Rhymes and on all North American dates will be Chicago-based hip hop artist Jeremih. More guests are to be announced.

Tickets for Europe and UK dates will be available on local presale at 10 am local time on Wednesday 10^th May. Tickets will be on sale to the general public at 10 am local time on Friday 12^th May. For more information and tickets see here.

The best-selling album of 2003, 50 Cent put gangsta rap back in style with his effortless charm and heaps of swagger on his debut. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was released on the 6^th February 2003 via Interscope, Dr Dre’s Aftermath, Eminem’s Shady, and 50’s own label G-Unit. The record was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 46^th Grammys, won Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album at the 2003 American Music Awards, and Top Billboard 200 Album at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards. Numerous publications have listed it as one of the best records of the noughties with Rolling Stone placing it at number 280 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List.

Watch the video for “In Da Club” below:

It’s been a year since 50 Cent performed in the UK. Last June, the rapper played in Manchester, Edinburgh, and London as part of his Green Light Gang World Tour.

Last year, 50 collaborated with Lil Durk and Jermih on the single “Power Powder Respect”. The Rapper has not released an album since his fifth LP, 2014’s Animal Ambition. Fans are speculating that the title of his tour indicates this may be 50’s final tour before he steps back from music.

See below for the full list of 50 Cent’s Europe and UK dates:

28/09/23 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam
29/09 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg
30/09 – Royal Arena – Copenhagen
04/10 – Spektrum – Oslo
05/10 – Spektrum – Trondheim
07/10 – Avicii Arena – Stockholm
09/10 – Arena Riga – Riga
11/10 – Atlas Arena – Lodz
14/10 – Mercedes-Benz Arena – Berlin
15/10 – Rudolf-Weber-Arena – Oberhausen
20/10 – Hallenstadion – Zurich
21/10 – Palais Nikaia – Nice
22/10 – Mediolanum Forum – Milan
24/10 – Olympiahalle – Munich
25/10 – SAP Arena – Mannheim
26/10 – Forest National – Brussels
28/10 – O2 Arena – Prague
31/10 – Zenith – Strasbourg
02/11 – Zenith – Nantes
03/11 – La Defense Arena – Paris
06/11 – 3Arena – Dublin
09/11 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
10/11 – AO Arena – Manchester
11/11 – The O2 – London
12/11 – Resorts World Arena – Birmingham

The band have not held back with this year’s tour. Starting on the 24th of July, just after they release Starcatcher, they will be performing at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. And they will make their way around various countries all the way through until December where they will be making their grand finale in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Campo Pequeño, performing alongside Black Honey.

It is a grand tour which will be seeing the best of American arena shows throughout July, August and September before finally crossing the pond in November. Europeans will be happy to know that they will be visiting more countries than originally imagines, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Spain and, as mentioned before, Portugal. Most of these mentioned shows are to be held in arena stadiums. They do not go easy.

In just three years Van Fleet have gone from hopping through Detroit bars to selling out Arena tours quicker than a dog could lick a dish clean. Best known for their fans favourite “Safari Song”, “Highway Tune” and “Black Smoke Rising” from their debut album.

Within the creation of this ten track album, the musicians reflect and explore the duality of fantasy versus reality and the contrast between light and darkness. Hence the naming of the album Starcatcher. We had this idea that we wanted to tell these stories to build a universe,” says Wagner in a press release. “We wanted to introduce characters and motifs and these ideas that would come about here and there throughout our careers through this world.”

The album is a follow up from their last, of which they have taken concepts from to apply to their newly constructed project, in another formality. They have teased us with a previously released single of the lot “Meeting The Master”. Within music different questions lead to different answers. But their general concept stands the same. The band is very well known for their live performances and have never failed to sell out arena tours, such as the ones waiting ahead of them.

Tickets went on sale this morning (19 April) at 10 am.

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UK Tour Dates:

14/11/2023 – Wembley Arena – London
16/11 – 3Arena – Dublin
19/11 – Manchester Arena – Manchester
20/11 – OVO Hydro Arena – Glasgow