Kanye West will headline his first solo tour in five years to promote his album “Yeezus,†it was announced on Friday. Press representatives for the tour said in a news release that the Yeezus Tour, as it is called, will begin Oct. 19 at the Key Arena in Seattle and run for seven weeks, when it will conclude Dec. 7 at the Toyota Center in Houston. New York-area tour dates include a Nov. 19 appearance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and a Nov. 23 appearance at Madison Square Garden.
Mr. West will be joined at most of these tour dates by Kendrick Lamar, the Southern California rapper whose album “good kid, m.A.A.d city†was released to wide acclaim last year, as well as other special guests still to be announced. Mr. West previously toured with Jay Z in 2011 in support of their joint album, “Watch the Throne,†and as a solo artist in 2008 on his Glow in the Dark tour, which also featured artists like Gnarls Barkley, Chris Brown and N.E.R.D.
