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Kendrick Lamar will return to Atlanta with SZA, Schoolboy Q and others on Top Dawg roster

Kendrick Lamar recently played Atlanta for the CFP National Championship concert. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Eye of Ramsess Media)

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Kendrick Lamar recently played Atlanta for the CFP National Championship concert. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Eye of Ramsess Media)
By Melissa Ruggieri
Jan 22, 2018

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

The Top Dawg Entertainment roster – Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Sir and Lance Skiiwalker – are taking to the road this summer for "TDE: The Championship Tour."

The show will visit Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood on May 25. Tickets will go on sale at noon Jan. 26 via www.livenation.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. Tickets are $39.50-$149.50.

Lamar, who is nominated for seven Grammy Awards at this weekend's ceremony in New York, will also perform on the broadcast. The lauded rapper recently made headlines as the first artist to perform during halftime at the College Football Playoff National Championship; he played a free, nine-minute set at Centennial Olympic Park.

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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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