New Orleans rap duo $uicideboy$ have a reputation for putting together some pretty amazing lineups for their recurring Grey Day Tour, and they did that once again with the ongoing 2024 edition, which supports their new album New World Depression. Direct support comes from Denzel Curry, whose own new album King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 came out earlier this year, and they also had support from Pouya, HAARPER, Shakewell, and Ekkstacy when they hit NJ’s Prudential Center on Saturday (9/21). Pictures of that show (sans Ekkstacy, who we missed) by Nick Karp are in this post.

For a little more on how $uicideboy$ got to where they currently are, Larry Fitzmaurice’s recent New York Times feature on the duo sheds some light:

The Louisiana rap duo Suicideboys have avoided nearly all the trappings of the contemporary music machine. They rarely grant interview requests and make the occasional public appearance with their faces partially covered. Still, Scott Arceneaux Jr. (known as Scrim) and Aristos Petrou (a.k.a. Ruby da Cherry) recently celebrated their biggest opening week on the Billboard chart yet: a No. 5 debut for their fourth album, “New World Depression,” last month.

[…] In 2021, on the strength of an audience they’d bootstrapped since 2014, they signed an eight-figure distribution deal with the Orchard, a Sony Music subsidiary, that was re-upped last year. Their semiannual Grey Day Tour — a mini-festival that’s featured similarly ascendant peers like the hardcore band Turnstile and the Florida rap aesthete Denzel Curry — has catapulted them onto the list of rap’s highest-grossing touring acts, taking in over $42 million and selling 431,000 tickets in 2023.

[…] “Everything that we can do as independently as we can, we do it,” Petrou said, noting that they do still have to play ball with touring behemoths AEG and Live Nation when it comes to booking events like Grey Day. Otherwise, “Labels don’t see a share of our profits, and we don’t really work with other artists. You’re not going to see us at the V.M.A.s. Scott and I just keep to ourselves.”

Read more at the NY Times and see more pics from the Prudential Center show below.

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