Kendrick Lamar Announces NZ Show

One of the hottest hip-hop superstars goring around today, Kendrick Lamar, has announced his first ever New Zealand show. The Compton born rapper will play the Powerstation in Auckland on Wednesday 12th December this year.

Kendrick Lamar's rise to prominence has been no fluke. The young MC rose through the ranks while searching for his own identity. He finally found it when he started using his real name and rapping about his real life.
The first result was 2009’s Kendrick Lamar EP which featured his trademark singles 'P&P', and 'She Needs Me'. He’d follow that up with 2010’s Overly Dedicated powered by the singles 'Michael Jordan' and 'Cut You Off'.

He became a lot of people’s favourite rapper almost overnight.

"It took me by surprise,” he admits. “I didn’t know people were going to take to it because it was different. It felt even better because it was really me. Me telling my story was easy. It’s easy for me to not talk about street shit all the time. It’s easy for me to not rap about killing people, because I haven’t.”

By the time he released his highly anticipated debut album Section.80 in July 2011, he was already being crowned as the voice of a new generation.

And now he has his Interscope debut album good kid m.A.A.d city ready to go, featuring the buzzed about singles 'The Recipe' and 'Swimming Pool (Drank).

good kid m.A.A.d city is set for release on October 26.

Tickets for Kendrick Lamar's NZ show are set for Pre-Sale Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th November.

General tickets on sale through Ticketmaster on Thursday 25th November.