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Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, T.I. and Trey Songz to play inaugural Tycoon Festival in Atlanta

Kendrick Lamar will be back in Atlanta this summer as the headliner for the inaugual Tycoon Festival.
By Melissa Ruggieri
April 6, 2019

The inaugural Tycoon Music Festival will bring Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, T.I. and Trey Songz to Atlanta this summer.

Created by Chris Brown’s longtime manager, Anthony Wilson, the event will take place at 7 p.m. June 8 at Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood.

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. April 8 via www.ticketmaster.com.

“We’re excited to launch this special festival and deliver an unforgettable, star-studded hip-hop concert to Atlanta,” Wilson said in a statement.

The show is co-sponsored by radio station V-103.

Lamar performed in Atlanta three times last year, most recently as a headliner of Music Midtown in September.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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