Before releasing his first album in six years, Ice Cube will get fans hyped with a lengthy North American tour.
Six weeks’ worth of dates are booked, starting in Anaheim, Calif., April 20. The rap legend will do several California dates, then make his way up the West Coast and across the country, with Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New York all on the itinerary.
The tour wraps back home in California at West Hollywood’s House of Blues.
Laugh Now, Cry Later is due June 6 and is Ice Cube’s first album released on his own label, Lench Mob Records.
“I’m putting my money where my mouth is because there’s nothing a major label can do for me that I can’t do for myself,” he said.
“Not being signed to a particular label, putting it out myself, not having to worry about what a company or anyone else has to think about the record, being able to just go in and do it how I feel it with no timelines or deadlines, it made me comfortable.
“I was able to recommitment myself to rhyming and rapping.”
Ice Cube hasn’t been on the road since 2000, when he appeared on the Up In Smoke tour and released his sixth album, War & Peace – Volume 2.
Source pollstar.com.
