Lupe Fiasco is heading back out on tour this fall. In celebration of The Cool‘s 15th anniversary, the Chicago native has announced that he will embark on a five-city mini-tour beginning in September. From September 9 through October 1, Lupe Fiasco will share his classic album with fans in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
“[I’ll] be performing the album from front to back in a city near you,” he wrote on Instagram.
The Cool is Lupe Fiasco’s second studio LP. The 19-track project prominently featured classic tracks like “Superstar” with Matthew Santos, “Paris, Tokyo” and “Hip Hop Saved My Life” featuring Nikki Jean. It also features cult classics like “Go Go Gadget Flow” and “Intruder Alert” featuring Sarah Green. Jon Pareles of the New York Times called it “one of the year’s best hip-hop albums” and Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the 10th best album of 2007. The project moved more than 140,000 copies in its first week and landed at 15th on the Billboard 200 before earning a Grammy nomination for “Best Rap Album” months later.
“I dodged the sophomore jinx. That was the whole goal. It’s probably gonna wind up being my first platinum album,” Lupe Fiasco told Billboard about The Cool.
“I’ve never had a platinum album, and I’ve sold millions of singles. There was no rush, but it’s looking like The Cool is a few thousand albums from going platinum 15 years later. That’s the next milestone and the one commercial thing that can really put the stamp on it, and I’ll have the plaque to prove it.”
Tickets for The Cool 15th-anniversary tour are on sale. Check out the complete list of dates below.
