Westside Gunn is on the point of hit the highway for his first-ever worldwide headline trek known as the God Is Love Tour to advertise his newest album, 10.
The Griselda Data chief took to his Instagram on Thursday (December 15) to announce the 12-city tour which kicks off in Amsterdam on January 13 earlier than Gunn heads to Paris, Vienna, Milan, Athens, Dublin and extra. The Buffalo native will then shut out the primary leg of the tour on February 10 in Libson, Portugal.
“WORLD WIDE WEST season is upon US!!!! GOD IS LOVE TOUR 1st Run 10yrs within the making,” Gunn cautioned his publish. “It’s time for me to see my Supporters from Everywhere in the world, y’all supported me for therefore lengthy it’s time I come give y’all FLYGOD LIVE!!!! @griseldarecords CULTURE might be within the constructing don’t miss it, we’ll all be household that night time I promise u you don’t wanna miss this u by no means know wats going to occur…”
He continued: “If I’m coming to your nation lmk for those who’ll be there, and in case your spot not on right here possibly it’ll be on the 2nd run *Replace on final Merch drops is on my story staff working nonstop.”
10 is the ultimate installment of Westside Gunn’s beloved Hitler Wears Hermes mixtape sequence. The album dropped in October with options from A$AP Rocky, DJ Drama, Black Star, Run The Jewels, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon and extra.
In a 3.5 evaluation ranking of 10, HipHopDX‘s Scott Glaysher wrote: “The beats, bars, and blitzkrieg of “increase increase increase booms” are ever current like they’ve been for the final ten years. For individuals who are already followers of Gunn and his no-nonsense rap prowess, this undertaking might be music, or gun sounds, to their ears.”
“Science Class,” the fifth observe on the album, is nominated for Greatest Hip Hop Collaboration on the 2022 HipHopDX Awards. It options Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah and Range God Cooks and can go up in opposition to Drake and 21 Savage’s “Jimmy Cooks,” Jack Harlow and Drake’s “Churchill Downs,” Benny The Butcher and J. Cole’s “Johnny P’s Caddy” and GloRilla’s “Tomorrow 2” that includes Cardi B.
Westside Gunn’s largest collaboration on 10 will be the album intro, on which he collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan legend RZA. In an interview with Fader, Westside Gunn spoke on locking in with RZA and the way grateful he was to lastly get a collab carried out.
“It’s been a dream of mine since day one to be on the RZA beat,” Gunn stated. “And to have that sound — that is what I’m begging him for, like ‘Bro, I would like this.’ I bought it [and] I’m grateful. It’s not the top of me and RZA. We’ve got extra.”