Playboi Carti announces The Antagonist Tour across North America

Playboi Carti has announced a broad North American arena tour that marks his first solo headline run since 2021. The Antagonist Tour is set to launch in Salt Lake City on October 3 and run through a Dec. 1 show at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, with stops across major markets including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and more. The trek will feature a roster of Opium-affiliated acts—Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, Homixide Gang, and Apollo Red—serving as openers, underscoring Carti’s ongoing collaboration with his in-house collective. Ticket presales begin August 26, with general onsales following August 29.

Carti’s announcement arrives after a year that positioned him as a high-profile touring figure. He spent much of the year opening on The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour, a stadium run that helped expand his audience, and he released MUSIC in March, a project that debuted at No. 1 on the charts and included all tracks charting on the Billboard Hot 100. The new tour therefore lands as a critical moment in Carti’s live performance arc, pairing his recent chart success with a return to arena-scale shows and a...