Theo Wargo, Getty Images Noel Vasquez, Getty Images ; Dave Kotinsky, Getty Images Nas and Kehlani are officially set to join Lauryn Hill’s MLH Caravan: A Diaspora Calling! The North American tour will hit Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Boston among other cities during its three-month trek. The tour will eventually head to Japan in late October before returning stateside for shows in San Francisco, Seattle and New Orleans. The outing was spawned from Hill’s Diaspora Calling! Music Festival which was held in Brooklyn back in April, and it will feature opening sets from Seun Anikulapo Kuti, Paul Beaubrun and the Soul Rebels. Of course, Nas and Hill have long shared a strong relationship, cemented by their hit collaboration, “If I Ruled the World,” from Nas’ 1996 sophomore effort, It Was Written. Nas will play two dates on the tour, Seattle and San Francisco. Hill says the tour is all about embracing togetherness. “The MLH Caravan allows me to continue the theme of unity and celebration of the many facets of cultural and artistic beauty throughout the African diaspora while on tour this summer and fall,” the singer said in a statement, adding that tour was extra fitting given the tension-filled times.
“In these days of tension, tumult and transition, an exchange of this kind can yield direction, expression, understanding and empowerment as well as connection, self Love and appreciation that hopefully overflows into our respective communities.” Check out the Diaspora Calling! 9/1 — Chicago, IL @ Ravinia (with No Name) 9/2 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore (with No Name) 9/4 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (with No Name) 9/9 — Paris, France @ Fete de L’Humanite Festival 9/11 — St. Louis, MO @ Loufest 9/13 — Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace 9/15 — Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall 9/16 — Toronto, Ontario @ Massey Hall 9/18 — Cleveland, OH @ Hard Rock Live Rocksino 9/20 — Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre 9/22 — Indianapolis, IN @ The Murat Theatre 9/24 — Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park 9/25 — Tuscaloosa, AL @ Tuscaloosa Amphitheater 9/27 — Memphis, TN @ Orpheum 9/29 — Charlotte, NC @ Charlotte Metro Credit Amphitheatre
10/1 — Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre 10/13 — New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall (with Kehlani, Little Simz) 10/20 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre 10/25 — Osaka, Japan @ Zepp 10/27 — Tokyo, Japan @ Zepp 10/29 — Yokohama, Japan @ Red Brick Festival 11/1 — San Diego, CA @ Copley Symphony Hall 11/4 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre 11/5 — San Francisco @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (with Nas and Kehlani) 11/6 — Seattle, WA @ McCaw Hall (with Nas and Kehlani) 11/8 — Vancouver, British Columbia @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre 11/10 — Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium 11/12 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Foundry at SLS 11/13 — Phoenix, AZ @ Comercia Theatre 11/27 — Austin, TX @ Moody Theatre 11/29 — San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theater 12/1 — New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre 12/6 — Tampa, FL @ Mahaffey Theater 12/8 — Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 12/13 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
12/18 — Silver Springs, MD @ Fillmore 10 Summer 2016 Music Festivals Oscars 2017: The Hottest Looks From the Red Carpet [PHOTOS] 10 Hip-Hop Couples That Didn’t Last Worst to Best: Every Prince Album Ranked A Complete Timeline of Cam’ron and Jim Jones’ BeefThis post is a little later than I planned, but what with us flying over to Las Vegas to plan our wedding and it being so flipping hot in England, everything has been running a little slower. For this travel diary I wanted to take a different angle to what I'd normally do. With Japan being so far away and somewhere that you definitely need to plan for, I want to put together as well as a few of our top tips. I'd love to hear from anyone who has been to Japan, or if you're thinking about going soon? Take Recommendations, But Find Your Own WayWith every district comes different interpretations of city guides and things to do, but with an economy which moves so fast it's hard to for guides to keep up.
Before we left for Japan Yasumi gave us some sound advice, "Don't worry about following specific guides. Recommendations are great but businesses come and go every single month, so the chances are that you'll be disappointed. Just go explore on your own!". Wander Down the Backstreets We were in Japan on business, but as it was a research project for Dan's furniture brand we constantly on the lookout for inspiration. Having Yasumi's advice in the back of our minds worked out perfectly, and as we weaved in and out of the cities backstreets we came across all sorts of coffee shops, design studios, independent stores, local makers, intriguing characters. Take Artless Craft for instance; a beautifully designed coffee + tea shop in central Harajuku. We spent a good hour chatting to the owners about their design business (just behind the coffee shop), football, and how the city is constantly changing... IThis short video takes you through the 24 steps each tennis ball goes through
Created by visual artist Benedict Redgrove for ESPN, and shot at the Wilson factory. Not only do these aswesome fictional basketball team illustrations, take me back to the cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid, it also reminds about how I would fill the back of my homework books with doodles of logos, mascots, cars, people in class and "cool" inventions. Not much has changed really..! See more from this project on Vanila Lab's Instagram here. All this week I'll be taking over Radisson Red's Instagram account! I'm mostly concentrating on a bunch of our favourite places we discovered in Las Vegas! We spent a decent amount of time in the downtown area of the city, and I can't wait to share what we found (did you hear we're getting married in Vegas next year?!). So if you like the kind of things I post on my personal account then head over to Radisson Red's Instagram account this week to see more from our trip to Florida and Nevada. I'd love to hear what you think so please do leave a comment on the photos!
Visit Radisson Red's blog for more travel inspiration. These made me smile. I'm a Piece of Garbage by Dirty Bandits is a project which involved finding abandoned everyday items and writing phrases on them, which play on insecurities and questions of self-worth. The artists have managed to turn a sorry tale into something quite humorous and strangely uplifting, simply by using Those unwanted items sure have personality, and a new lease of life! See more from this project here. First seen on Swiss Miss. It's been a good six weeks since I came back from my trip to Japan, and my heads been everywhere and back since. Things moved so quickly, and before I knew it we were on our way to America, so I've only just got around to properly looking through my travel photos. We were keen to visit a bunch of stores while in Toyko, and we did hit a few belters, but we generally took Yasumi's advice of just going with the flow exploring this vast city without a set-in-stone plan.