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| A promotional poster outlines the lineup for "The New Generation Tour." The 23-city international tour, beginning Sept. 1 in Rogers, Arkansas, marks Young Thug's first headlining run since 2019 and features special guest NAV alongside emerging Young Stoner Life Records artists. |
carry the label forward.
The Atlanta rapper announced “The New Generation Tour,” his first headlining run since 2019. The 23-date U.S. and European trek opens Sept. 1 at Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas, and closes Oct. 24 at Adidas Arena in Paris.
NAV will appear on all 19 U.S. dates. The tour also will showcase Young Stoner Life Records signees Tezzus, Diamond*, 1300saint, Iyrus, Yume, Biggs and Unky, placing a new YSL lineup alongside one of the most influential and unconventional rappers to emerge from Atlanta’s 2010s takeover.
The route includes a Sept. 20 homecoming at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, followed by three Texas dates: Sept. 27 at 713 Music Hall in Houston, Sept. 29 at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving and Sept. 30 at Moody Amphitheater in Austin.
The U.S. leg ends Oct. 4 at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. Young Thug and the YSL lineup then travel to Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Germany; Łódź, Poland; and Paris.
General ticket sales begin Friday at 10 a.m. local time through Live Nation, Ticketmaster and the tour’s official website. Artist and other presales began earlier this week.
The tour represents more than a return to buses, backstage rooms and nightly set lists.
Young Thug’s last headlining trek was the strangely titled Justin Bieber Big Tour, a 2019 co-headlining run with Machine Gun Kelly that did not include Justin Bieber. He has made several major festival appearances since returning to the stage, including Coachella this spring, but “The New Generation Tour” will be his first sustained headlining itinerary in seven years.
His formal return to live performance began at the Summer Smash festival near Chicago in June 2025, where Travis Scott, T.I. and Ken Carson joined him during his first public concert since March 2022.
Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Williams, had spent more than two years in custody before his release in October 2024 ended his part in the sprawling Georgia racketeering case involving YSL.
Williams pleaded guilty to one gang charge, three drug charges and two gun charges. He entered no-contest pleas to another gang count and racketeering conspiracy, meaning he did not admit guilt but accepted punishment as though he had.
A judge imposed a 40-year sentence structured around five years commuted to time served and 15 years of probation. An additional 20-year prison term can be imposed if Williams violates the conditions of his probation.
That case kept the YSL name attached to court testimony, criminal allegations and debates over the use of rap lyrics as evidence for years. The tour places the emphasis back on Young Stoner Life Records — not simply as the company behind Young Thug, but as a label attempting to establish its next class.
Tezzus and Diamond* have already begun attracting some attention as part of Atlanta’s younger underground movement, while the rest of the touring roster gives Young Thug an opportunity to introduce developing artists directly to an audience that may know little about them beyond their YSL affiliation.
That makes “The New Generation Tour” both a comeback and a handoff.
Young Thug has already shown that he can return to a festival stage and command attention. This fall, he will find out whether that return can carry a full international tour, and whether the YSL name can again become known for what happens on records and stages instead of inside a courtroom.
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