Just yesterday, Big Boi announced plans for a second leg of his tour, along with the release of a new video. Big Boi will continue his Daddy Fat Saxxx Tour with eight more shows. He will make his way down from Canada, to visit Washington, Oregon and California. In September, the first leg of the tour hit stops in the east coast, the midwest and the south. This January, the iconic rapper will focus solely on the west coast. Tickets go on sale this Friday at Big Boi’s website.
In addition to the tour dates, the artist released a new video for his song, “In The South.” The song comes off of his most recent album Boomiverse, which was released this past June. The song features rap mainstay Gucci Mane and the posthumous, Houston hip-hop artist, Pimp C. The groovy song builds off the southern rap style that Big Boi and his collaborator, André 3000 popularized in their band, Outkast. Along with Outkast, Gnarls Barkely and Goodie Mop made this upbeat branch of rap popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. There are also traces of the G-Funk style that Dr. Dre introduced in 1992 with his album The Chronic, and 1999 with 2001. Like the name of the later album indicates, the style was ahead of its time because it paradoxically borrowed techniques from earlier artists of the 70s.
The video for the song is just as funky as its aforementioned predecessors. It features the three artists rapping in a car-but not just any car. They are brought to life through the animations of Cartoon Buck. They cruise along the make-believe streets of the animated South.
The video is a follow up to their collaboration with Adam Levine and Sleepy Brown on, “Mic Jack.” The rest of the album, which features other iconic artists such as Killer Mike, Curren$y, Kurupt, Troze, Eric Bellinger, Snoop Dogg, Scar, Big Rube and Jeezy, can be listened to this coming January on the second leg of Big Boi’s tour.
UPDATE (3/19): Big Boi has announced a third leg of his Daddy Fat Saxxx tour. This run of dates starts in mid-May and runs through the beginning of June. The majority of the dates are in the Southeast United States.
Tour Dates:
01/05 – Calgary, AB – The Palace Theatre
01/06 – Edmonton, AB – Union Hall
01/08 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
01/09 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
01/10 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
01/12 – San Francisco, CA- 1015 Folsom
01/13 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
01/14 – Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater
05/17 – St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room
05/18 – Little Rock, AR – The Rev Room
05/19 – New Orleans, LA – The Joy Theater
05/21 – Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
05/23 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
05/24 – Tampa, FL – Ritz Ybor
05/25 – Fort Pierce, FL – The Inlet
05/26 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Revolution
05/28 – Jacksonville, FL – 1904 Music Hall
05/30 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
06/01 – Jacksonville, NC – Hooligans Music Hall
06/02 – Greensboro, NC – The Blind Tiger
06/03 – Asheville, NC – Salvage Station
06/05 – Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre
06/06 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
06/08 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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