Kendrick Lamar and SZA have been sharing the spotlight with each other on their current Grand National Tour, and the “All the Stars” collaborators are bringing their A-list friends into the fold during select shows.
Playboi Carti was the first guest performer, popping out for “Good Credit” at the Atlanta show last month after Dot had been performing the MUSIC track dolo since the tour’s opening night in Minneapolis. Both Baby Keem and Kaytranada came out as surprise guests, performing “Family Ties” and Teedra Moses’ “Be Your Girl,” respectively, during the concert at the “Kill Bill” singer’s home state of New Jersey earlier this month. While SZA performed her “Consideration” collaboration with Rihanna from the latter’s iconic 2016 album Anti at the Jersey stop, we could only hope and dream that RiRi would one day join her on stage.
The stars have also been spotted on the sidelines, as videos of Pusha T attending their Foxborough show went viral.
And the upcoming trio of shows in Lamar’s hometown of Los Angeles might be looking like The Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert he hosted on Juneteenth last year, when the “Not Like Us” rapper brought out Mustard – who’s currently opening this tour and was one of the all-star guests during his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance earlier this year – Ty Dolla $ign, Tyler, the Creator, Roddy Ricch, YG, his former (and SZA’s current) TDE labelmates ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and many more.
Billboard rounded up all the guest stars who’ve popped up at the Grand National Tour, in order of oldest to most recent appearance.
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Playboi Carti
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Baby Keem
Lamar brought out his younger cousin Baby Keem to perform “Family Ties” at East Rutherford’s MetLife Stadium on May 10. The pgLang dynamic duo took over arenas three years ago when Keem was one of the supporting acts for Lamar’s Big Steppers Tour. They also headlined Camp Flog Gnaw in 2023, when they were billed as “The Hillbillies.”
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Kaytranada
SZA had Kaytranada on the 1s and 2s while they performed his viral remix of Teedra Moses’ “Be Your Girl” during their MetLife Stadium tour stop on May 10. “The OG of this song raised me . Kaytras version activates meee . Complex simplicity was so nuts . Humblest love to Teedra,” SZA wrote on X. Kaytra also DJed the after party for her Not Beauty brand that same night, which Lizzo and Ty Dolla $ign also attended.