Kanye West adds Lagos to 2024 tour shortlist, set to release new album, vultures

By : Daniel Anazia and Chinonso Ihekire

Date: 10 February 2024 6:10am WAT

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 6, 2019 US rapper Kanye West attends the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards at MOMA in New York City. - The United States was on knife's edge on November 4, 2020 waiting for electoral results, but the fate of one candidate was clear: Entertainer Kanye West will not win the 2020 presidential race -- but still has future aspirations. The mercurial rapper, who decided to run for the nation's highest office late in the game as an independent candidate under the Birthday Party, received approximately 60,000 votes from the 12 states where he managed to get on the ballot. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

With the three installments of his new album, Vultures, in collaboration with TY Dolla $ign set to be released in the coming weeks and the first yesterday, Friday, February 9, American hip-hop heavyweight and fashion designer, Kanye Omari West well known as Kanye West has included Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt among possible countries he would be touring in 2024 and 2025 for his Vultures world tour.

The 24-time Grammy winner made the announcement via his micro-blogging platform, Instagram handle, on Wednesday, February 7. The screenshot outlined suggested tour dates on Eko Energy City in Lagos, Nigeria for December 14, 2024 and Nyayo International Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya for December 7.

According to the rapper, songwriter, and record producer, the tour will start in Toronto, Canada on June 22, and continue across the United States of America until August, when it will move to Mexico.

The possibility of GOOD Music label chief performing in Lagos has excited fans who are eager to see one of the most decorated and best-selling rappers of all time perform in the Afrobeats capital. Should he make a stop in Lagos as part of his 2024 tour, it would be the second time he has performed in Lagos, as he was part of the international artistes’ lineup at the 2007 Mega Star Jam powered by Nigeria Breweries Plc.

Recall that the entertainment mogul had previously interacted with Nigerian music, with Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, better known as D’Banj, signed his GOOD Music label in 2011 before going on to appear on the Scape Goat remix. In 2021, he described Wizkid’s Essence as the greatest song in the history of music.