J. Cole‘s manager Ibrahim “IB” Hamad has responded to the droves of disappointed fans who are upset that the It’s All a Blur — Big As the What? Tour isn’t coming to their city.
Drake and Cole’s newly-announced tour includes a ton of make-up dates from Drizzy’s original It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage as well as some secondary markets, which is why major cities like New York, Los Angeles and D.C. haven’t been included.
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“I feel your pain but this is not a major city run, the run is for the secondary market we don’t get to go to as much and do shows like how we use to. All Love to DC though,” IB replied to one fan.
However, the Dreamville co-founder is excited to hit some of the markets often glanced over on tours that he and J. Cole used to run through when they were grinding before his leap to superstardom.
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“Gotta pull back up to some of those markets we use to grind through on the come up. Can’t wait to see those cities again, been a minute,” he added.
Check out IB’s comments below:
Cole and Drake will begin their co-headlining tour on January 18 in Denver, Colorado, and Cole will continue with the trek through March 10 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The 6 God will then perform the final four shows of the tour — including a Long Island show just 7.7 miles from Cole’s alma mater, St. John’s University — without the North Carolina rhymer.
Tickets for the shows will be available to purchase on Wednesday (November 15) as part of a Cash App debit card presale (a move Drake also did earlier in the tour), with a general sale to follow two days later on Friday (November 17) at 11 a.m. local time. All of the information about the shows can be found here.
There’s no word yet on whether the tour will include a reprise of the memorable Drake/Cole moment at April’s Dreamville festival, where Drizzy led the crowd in a sing-along of Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” as praise for the “No Role Modelz” rapper.
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The tour announcement comes just over a month after Drake told the world that he would be taking a year off from making music in order to focus on his health.
In the early morning hours of the day of the release of his latest album For All the Dogs, Drizzy revealed on his SiriusXM Radio show Table For One that he was unlikely to create new songs for the next year or so, in order to focus on being healthier.
