Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "KENDRICK LAMAR & SZA BREAK MAJOR RECORD ON GRAND NATIONAL TOUR OPENING NIGHT"

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

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Now, of course, getting into my favorite musician of all. Oh, hold up. Wrong artist. My fault. Getting into side seven, I mean, white tank top. I mean, oh, my goodness. How did I start off the segment messing up this gentleman's name entirely? All right, let me start over.

Getting into Kendrick Lamar, aka one of the biggest mascots currently when it comes to the genre of hip hop. and who I regard and consider maybe the best lyricists of all time. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's about time to start having those uncomfortable conversations because it's just like Steph Curry going further in the playoffs, then LeBron. Some agendas are going to start happening that Drake fans may be uncomfortable with. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip-hop. That Jay-Z fans may be uncomfortable.

with. And of course, the H&M fans, as far as M&M, you know, you already know that they are irate about those comparisons. But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? So with that being said, of course, I'm getting into Kendrick Lamar and Sizz's Grand National Tour, as if you don't know, it's currently going on right now.

And a lot of people were saying, right, there was coming out of the woodworks to say, oh, Susan Kendrick's stadium tour or arena tour Excuse me is not selling out right A lot of people saying that and then just so happens Opening night as far as Minneapolis April 19th It sold out 100% as far as all 47,354 tickets were sold So it's 100% sold out and

Minneapolis right and then you have a second show and then it broke the record again selling out once more this time grossing even more as far as 9.44 million when on April 19th it grossed 9.12 million now of course when it comes to specifics as far as the analytics it is objectively showcasing that this tour is successful and for the foreseeable future it's going to be successful for quite some time because of course Kendrick has not only the second most play album in the world with g and x but he also has good kin mass city that's a 36 most play album in the world and he has damn that's the 39th most play album in the world so safe to say that everybody is consuming kendrick at a breakneck pace to the point where kendrick is unequivocally the leader of hip-hop currently now so

switching over because of course another phenomenal artist is on this tour as far as siza she currently has the most played album in the world and of course i believe a week or two ago it was ken carson with his more chaos album but that is currently the 33 most played album but as far as ciza she has the number one most play album currently and she also has another album on the charts as far as control which is the 45th most play album in the world now why am i going over these statistics it's because if you don't think kendrick and scissor combined can sell out a stadium tour then what does that say for the rest of hip-hop you know i'm saying like the most consumed hip-hop musician currently going on tour should not be having any issues right and if he was having any issues what does that mean for you you

know a lot of people like to say oh kendrick's using bots which you know to be honest everybody has a marketing budget which if you don't have a marketing budget you probably don't want to take you you probably don't want to be taken seriously as an influence or entertainment in the industry because when it comes to bots when it comes to things of that nature there's a lot of things behind the scenes to uplift the overall perception that the average fan is not aware of and that's well technically in certain facets Spotify and apple they do not condone that type of activity but are they stopping it Of course not. So it's almost like when you go to the movie theater and you know that you're not supposed to bring snacks into there.

But are they stopping you? Of course not because you bought your ticket to watch the movie. So I would compare that to what's going on right now with Kendrick and Siza. They have phenomenal numbers on the charts. And I believe majority of that is authentically their fans. Because of course you can't fake people in the seats, right? Of course you can give free tickets. stadium tour once again let me mind you 9.1 million as far as the opening night as far as what that

performance grossed so when you get into the aftermath of the totality of the tour right safe to say it's going to be a lot of dollars generated to the point where now coming back to people proclaiming that Kendrick is out here using bots that argument just falls to the wayside because because you can't fake that type of engagement. Let me just tell you that right now. So with that being said, Kendrick is also running it up on the charts when it comes to specific tracks as he had,

he currently has six tracks on the charts on a chart. And of course, number one is with the one and only scissor. And just so happens that they're on tour together. So the number one most played track in the world, mind you, is peaked at number one and has been at number one for 22 weeks straight. So with that being said, Kendrick has the most played track in the world along with Siza, of course. And then not like us, it's still going crazy.

You know, y'all already know my sentiment as far as the pedophile anthem. But it's still encapsulating the masses to the point where now it's the 21st most played track in the world. And it's been on the charts for a whopping 50 weeks. That is insane. And then you have TV off, which is the 23rd most played track in the world. then you have squabble up that's the 27th most played track in the world and then you have peekaboo which is the 602nd most played track in the world and of course those are all of the six tracks that kendrick has on the charts now when it comes to scissors it's not as many but it's

still impressive nonetheless because she is attached to the most play song in the world as far as luther with kenserk Lamar and scissors that's once again been on the charts for 22 weeks and it stayed at number one very insane as far as those that type of performance and engagement and then you have 30 for 30 by Siza and Kendrick Lamar once again that is the 24th most played track in the world and of course the roundoff Siza's impact on the masses she has BMF that's a 63rd most play track and that's been BMF and 30 for 30 has been on the charts for about 18 weeks so getting back into the tour numbers right it's safe to say that

people are coming to this tour already very aware of what these two artists offer musically so when you look at the average ticket price being a hundred and ninety plus dollars right and this is the average if you want to get up close you're going to come out you have to come off some more fetichini my brother because guess what they are not skimming when it comes to the prices of these tickets and nor should they i think people underestimate how difficult it is to engage this type of audience that Kendrick and Siza individually have have garnered over time right so now they are reaping the benefits and the overall getting the fruits of the labor delivered to them in the form of a successful arena tour so there's a lot of great things i'm saying about

kendrick and scissor because they earned it i don't think anybody should ever look at a hardworking individual and their respective craft craft and be like, you know what? I think that is easy. I don't think anybody should look at any craft, right? See somebody performing at the top and be like, oh, he's only doing this because of X. He's only doing that because of Y. Because if that was the case, why are y'all not doing X or Y? Right. So anyways, those are just for the people who's talking about Kendrick having Bots. And of course, you know, when it comes to the overall disrespect of the stadium tour, as far as them saying, it wasn't going to sell out. Just know that majority, if not all of the tour days, so that

out and if it didn't it was like 97% 99% or close to 100% but it wasn't like 50 to 60 like previous reports were saying because people are saying like oh they're only going to be able to sell out like 50 to 60% of the stadium which is obviously wrong as far as the objective analytics that I'm going off of right so they had the most attended non-festival show for Kendrick and Siza combined as far as nearly 50,000 fans showing up. And if you didn't know, in totality, the tour goes across North America and Europe and they have a total of 39 shows. And guess where else they're going as far as this tour?

They're actually going to Canada. Now, I'm not going to lie to you. There's going to be some egregious things that happens whenever they go on tour and end up in Canada. I'm not going to say what's going to happen, but all I'm going to say is hopefully Chubs less than make it. it would be a shame if anything happens at the Canada show. Because Kendrick's the first one to ever bring this up as far as Drake.

What do you say? He said something like it's going to be a last stop or something if you come to whatever. I think it was LA or something like that. He said it's going to be a last stop. And that was pretty aggressive, right? I don't think Drake's ever said anything like that. But of course, like I covered when I covered this. So if you didn't know, hands, feet, and elbows was put on Rick Ross's security team.

Now, this event happened. When did this happen? Okay, so in general, when did this happen? Oh, okay, July 2nd, 2024. I reported on this as far as Drake fans attacking Rick Ross's team after he played, not like us in Canada. Already egregious that is not your track, right? Already blasphemous that you're not in the mix with your team, right?

letting them defend you because you're a so-called like gangster you know i'm not a gangster so i'm just going to believe them obviously the people at the canada show damn believe him because they rode up on him and they beat up his team so that happened back in july second 2024 and of course when it comes to that there's another thing that happened right there was a i don't know if this pulls up so i don't think i've reported on this i think i probably talked about him i talked about rick ross getting beat up by his team but uh rick ross playing landing All right, so Rick Ross's private jet landing gear is stuck after involvement in DFW private jet crash, right? So Rick Ross Jet had complications to the point where it had to crash in Dallas.

Now, where was he coming from? I'm going to let you figure that out. Actually, I'm not going to let you all. I'm going to let you know. That man was coming from Canada. So, you know, there's a lot of things that's just very specific. when it comes to the power of certain individuals from that specific country. So that being said, let's get into the rest of these analytics as far as the tour day,

because there's really not too much you get into. I just really wanted to uplift Kendrick and Siza just showcasing how they are really spearheading the R&B and hip-hop movement. It reminds me of when Jay-Z and R. Kelly went on a tour, which y'all going to think is blasphemous. But as far as numbers-wise, this is essentially what that looks like. the top hip-hop artist and the top rnb act literally on the same exact stadium tour worldwide north american in europe right so if you think of r kelly and j z back in that day j z was the top rapper engagement wise and r kelly was the top r mb act engagement wise same exact thing going on right now

so i think it's a one in a lifetime type of opportunity as far as kendr consists of going on tour because you get to have two phenomenal artists for the price of one but that price is pretty hefty as you know to charge around 190 plus as far as with the average ticket shows uh ticket prices are going for but when it comes to the show right a lot of people want to know what's happening in the show what does the show look like well i got you covered analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio and of course when it comes to the show they combined perform 52 tracks It's 2.5 hours of their set list. And Kendrick and Siza alternate every five to seven songs for each respective fan base, right?

So Kendrick comes on and gets five songs. Siza comes on and get five to seven. And they do that all the way up until the 52 song tracklisting that's out right now as far as the tour. Now, of course, it changes. So I'm not going to put it up to like get your high hope, get your hopes up thinking you're going to hear a specific song. or maybe they change up the entire set list for certain regions right because you know there's a data to analytics that exists to pinpoint what those specific regions like as far as from those particular musicians so they're probably going off that so you never know if you'll change but of course

they're going to play the classics like kendry's going to play the pedify anthem uh scissors is going to perform something off of control and you know the fans are going to like it so anyways that's basically how it goes and they say it's a proper stadium tour meaning they're using a lot of different theatrics to let you know that you definitely will get your money's worth as far as that the respective art is putting their effort forth as far as what you see on the stadium I mean if the Super Bowl halftime show showed you one thing is that Kendrick and scissors music alone is stadium is stadium quality Kendrick's performance as far as on the stage and his in this specific grand national tour he basically has a new or type of

stage design, right? And then when Siza comes on, she has an insect and nature theme type of stage when she's performing. And then, of course, when it comes to the visuals, I do have certain snippets from these shows and just wanted to showcase how when they was going to, well, when they started off their Grand National Tour, they was pulling out all the stops. So this is essentially what you could assume you're going to get from the stadium tour. so anyway so analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio i'm about to pull up

the videos of these of this show right now so uh let me see obviously i can't play the audio because you know i'm not trying to get copyrighted um but anyways as you can see right here this man kendrick is uh he has the baggiest show uh baggy his pants imaginable but you know he's showcasing i think that's mustard or whatever i think he's playing tv off or something like that but he's rocking the X chain. I saw this on social media. It was making a big deal about his chain. The diamonds are dancing.

I'm not going to lie to you. The diamonds are doing a little two step right now. So that's one image as far as his outfit on tour. And then of course you have the other one, which is this one. And this gives you more of a bird's eye view of what Kendrick looks like on the show. And as you could tell, I mean, this is, I've seen a lot of dancers and choreography going on in his show. this is probably just like the beginning portion of it so this is him coming out and uh he definitely has a hip-hop type of outfit on like the long sleeve white shirt and then the oversized pants and

shirt look like he's out of a ice cube movie you know but that's what stops the point so let's keep going so then you have another scene where this is a bunch of flashing lights right and i think this is done rehearsing let me see is this rehearsal uh oh no okay so the first appearance as far as a uh a guest feature was playbric cardi that's interesting so of course if you don't know good credit which let me see good credit um it's currently not on the charts that's interesting okay but playbric cardi is on the chart as he has two songs on the on the charts right now as he has uh timeless with the weekend is the 32nd most played track in the world been on the charts for about 30 weeks then you have rather lie with the weekend that's on uh that's the 60th most played track in the

world and that's been on the charts for about six weeks it's very interesting how the only songs on playbricardy's album to even still have a pulse on the billboard charts is with the weekend i mean it goes back to my sentiment as far as what i was saying about play with cardi but we're not going to reiterate that because of course i was completely wrong as far as in that element of thinking playb recording couldn't put up numbers by himself because of course he went number one to the point while made him the cover of last episode because of course when you affect the masses notorious pun intended i think it should be acknowledged and you know i go off i go off objective analytics and playbricardi really had one of the more standout performances as far as a hip-hop rollout right

so it's interesting me interesting to me to see that his album is currently uh only having the weekend track charting as far as from i am music you would think the track with kendrick will have a little bit more lasting power on the charts but i guess not because i'm trying to see when it just come out not the deluxe edition let me see the original so the original music album from playbordy came out march 14th and there's only one track remaining on the charts and it's with the weekend and you could go off of the familiarity as far as timeless coming out before the album and it's still the 30 second most played track in the world so i'm not going to say the weekend is hard carrying and play bickardi because of course that would be disrespectful i'm just going to say very interesting how the

weekend is attached to playbricard's only tracks remaining on billboard almost like the weekends to go but anyways let's keep going so that being said this is what playbukary looks like uh kensry brought him out right and as you can see they got a whole lot of red aesthetic going on right here and you can barely see that i mean i guess if you look at the screen you can kind of see obviously i'm not going to play the uh audio you could assume the playing good credit and then this is more of a close sub of Cardi on stage right here. And, you know, Cardi's standing by Kendrick. You kind of realize that man is very short.

There is no way that's Kendrick. And he's wearing like, but look at, that can't be Kendrick. There's no way. How tall is Playboy Cardi? That man has to be like, either he's humongous, Paul's. You guys. See, that's the problem. Or Kendrick's just super short.

Let me see. Play with Cardi's height. Oh, Playboy Cardi 6-1. Yeah, that's way, that's very tall. or a hip-hop musician. Most of these artists are out here like Kaisenet. And no shade of Kaysenet. I'm just showcasing that.

He's a very tiny man, right? So Kendrick Lamar falls in that category as well. So that is insanity. Look at this. I thought that was an extra for a second. Like, I was like, I thought I was watching an episode off Smurz. Anyways. So with that being said, that's the first feature that he brought out as far as on the stadium

tour, as far as Playb McCarty. I'm still stuck on this image. Like, this man has booted. on it look at this those add at least three inches y'all can't see my cursive i'm hovering around his boots in the in the bottom right that is at least two to three inches of elevation right there and he's still short let me look up this man height you know it's all about the heart and what they say is the heart in the dog not the it's the it's the i forget they say it's the um i forget what the term is hold up let me look at kendrick's height kensrik height oh my goodness that man's

five five that's insane all right Let me find out this quote because I think it pertains to Kendrick. Let me see. It's not the fight in the dog. It's the heart. I'll definitely mess that up. I'm trying to get that saying right. Because that's how I feel like looking at this image.

He rap so braggadocious and so aggressive, right? And he look at him in real life up to next to like a 6-1 male, right? And that man is tiny. Anyways, it's not the size of the size of the. dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog but then you know what i'm saying i was like damn look at the state of hip hop like what's going on so ladies and gentlemen that's all i have to say about kendrick's height that that just took me off uh that that basically threw me off like crazy but anyways uh with that being said obviously that's what the kendricks side of things looks like

uh i didn't look up the scissors side of things um but already like i kind of explained it a little bit of how her side of things look she has more of an insect and nature theme staging i know for this podcast you know a lot of people who enjoy every aspect of the music industry so let's just say let's just say having kendrick and ciza on the same stage alternating is a once in a lifetime type of opportunity right and with that being said the grand national tour already being a historic success as far as them selling out their opening dates right getting critical acclaim as far as the multiple albums on the charts as far as the multiple tracks on the charts.

I'm just basically showcasing how everybody who said that their tour was going to underperform, they are some of the biggest artists we've ever seen in hip hop and R&B. If they are underperforming, what does that say about you as a musician, right? If you do music. So with that being said, Kendrick, Siza, they're completely killing it. The Grand National Tour is still going on right now. Let me see if I can pull that. I was trying to pull it up.

Grand National Tour. What if I'm trying to cop some tickets? They probably like, hold on, is that, is that analytic? I know, I know he ain't, I know he ain't trying to get tickets after he called my Super Bowl performance the worst of all time. I just know he's not. Anyways, let me go to Ticketmaster. All right, this is a blog.

So it's not, let me see a link. Here you go. I'll come and see tickets. What is it? It's April 30th, right? So I think the next tour day is May 3rd. And they're going to be in Charlotte and they're going to be in Philadelphia. And then they're going to be in New Jersey, New Jersey.

So that's May 3rd, May 5th, and May 8th. So that's interesting. When he comes to New Jersey, I know he's going to shut it down. Oh, yeah. Actually, you're doing two tours, two dates in New Jersey. They're doing May 8th and May 9th. Wow, back to back. It's like the NBA with these successful touring artists.

I ain't going to lie to you. So anyways, that's where you can catch Kendrick Lamar and says the next. Just know the tour is going all the way. until August 9th and if you was wanting to be petty let me see if I can find this if you was wanting to be petty right just know that I may I actually may mark this on my calendar this is going to be like when Drake went to Philadelphia they're doing two shows just like they are doing in New Jersey right so this is a premieres location I wonder why June 13th 2025 and June 12th

2025 is when Kendrick and Siza will be in Toronto, Ontario at the Rogers Center. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to be a date to remember in human history. So that being said, click my link to you in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about Kendrick Lamar's and Siza's Grand National Tour? What do you think about all of the analytics coming out as far as it being a very successful show? And what is, if you've been to the Grand National Tour, what is your biggest take? away from your experience.