Lil Wayne will bring 'Tha Carter VI' tour to Target Center
Lil Wayne will bring 'Tha Carter VI' tour to Target Center originally appeared on Bring Me The News.
Lil Wayne has somehow been churning out albums in his Tha Carter series for more than two decades, and that will continue this week with the arrival of Tha Carter VI on Friday.
The record will be accompanied by a North American tour that has the "Lollipop" rapper dropping into the Target Center in Minneapolis on Aug. 20 – the night before the start of the Minnesota State Fair, and just in time for him to grab some Mouth Trap cheese curds on his way out of town.
Tha Carter VI Tour is promising to spill "20+ years of Carter Classics" with support from Tyga and Belly Gang Kushington.
That 34-city tour will kick off with an album release show at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday. Then, Lil Wayne, who received a last-minute pardon on a federal weapons charge from President Donald Trump during his first term, will really get the tour underway with regular dates beginning on July 30.
Tickets for Lil Wayne go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on June 6. However, fans can sign up for presale access at Lil Wayne's website.
Fans will be hoping the artist makes it to Minnesota, with the rapper canceling previous metro shows on three occasions: twice in 2017 due to scheduling conflicts and then plane issues, and once in 2015 due to an issue with his entourage at Myth Nightclub.This story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
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