Nelly Gears Up For US Run Of ‘Where The Party At Tour’
The North American shows begin on July 23 in Bristow, Virginia.
Nelly is gearing up for the US leg of his “Where The Party At Tour,” which will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his debut studio album, 2000’s Country Grammar.
The 56-date outing began back in March in New Zealand. On July 23, the North American run will begin with a gig at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia.
From there, Nelly will hit major cities like Toronto, Hartford, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, and more. The run will conclude on September 19 in North Little Rock, Arkansas at the Simmons Bank Arena.
The rap legend will have a ton of friends joining him throughout the run, with US and Canada dates featuring Ja Rule, Eve, Chingy, and Jermaine Dupri. In a statement upon announcing all the tour dates, Nelly said, “Yo, ‘Where Da Party At Tour’ we are taking this tour worldwide — I got my folks with me Ja Rule, Jermaine Dupri, Eve, the St. Lunatics, and Fabulous — … LETS GOOOOO..!!!” The tour marks Nelly’s first run of shows since opening for Janet Jackson on her 2023-2024 Together Again Tour.
It was recently announced that Nelly’s blockbuster 2000 album, Country Grammar, is getting a repressing to honor its 25 years. That new edition will arrive on July 25.
This release features the deluxe edition of Country Grammar on two translucent blue vinyl discs. The expanded tracklist includes the bonus tracks “Icey,” “Come Over,” “Country Grammar (Instrumental),” and “Ride Wit Me (Instrumental),” as well as gatefold packaging.
In a retrospective review in 2017, Pitchfork’s Paul A. Thompson praised Country Grammar as “a statement of purpose that gave order to the corner of the world Nelly and his friends inhabited, a syntactical maze of local culture that doubled as a flier for the greatest party you could ever imagine.” Three years later, Stereogum’s Tom Breihan declared of the title track, “Practically everything the 25-year-old Cornell Hayes Jr. says on ‘Country Grammar’ works as a hook.”
