NBA YoungBoy’s Make America Slime Again tour is shaping up to be one of the highest-grossing hip-hop tours in U.S. history.
According to Touring Data, the rapper has already sold more than 500,000 tickets across 42 shows, raking in over $70 million so far. That milestone places YB among an elite group of rap heavyweights, joining Drake, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, and Jay-Z on the list of the top 10 highest-grossing rap tours ever.
The MASA tour hasn’t been without its chaotic moments. Last month, a viral video from his Kansas City, Missouri stop showed a teenage fan assaulting a staff member at the T-Mobile Center on September 21.
Witnesses said the altercation began after the teen was told to move because he wasn’t sitting in his assigned seat. “He was asked to move to another place — because his ticket wasn’t where he was sitting — and immediately he just completely lost it,” one bystander explained. “But there is something going on in his heart that needs to be fixed — and what that is, is his emotions.”
The 14-year-old was later charged with felony and misdemeanor assault in connection with the incident.
Still, the tour has delivered major emotional highs for fans. Kai Cenat went viral after breaking down in tears at one of YoungBoy’s shows, a moment that many fans related to. Several other clips of concertgoers crying have since made the rounds online.
Not everyone was moved, though — Charleston White mocked the emotional reactions during an interview with SAY CHEESE!, saying, “Now, I heard you say a lot of good shit. Grown men coming together crying. They were not no goddamn crying in no muthafuckin’ NBA concert. That was a mentally retarded male. A mentally retarded male trapped in a grown man’s body, still embracing his childhood boy decisions.”
