6LACK announces a 44-date world tour starting Sept 8 in Oslo, celebrating a decade of music and new album ‘Love Is The New Gangsta’
A decade in, 6LACK is not slowing down. The Atlanta singer announced his “10 Years of 6LACK Tour” on May 26, a 44-date global run set to open September 8 in Oslo and close December 11 in Minneapolis. The tour arrives just four days after the release of his fourth studio album, ‘Love Is The New Gangsta,’ out May 22 via LVRN/Interscope Records, and doubles as both a career retrospective and a victory lap for what critics are already calling his most emotionally complete work yet.
The timing is intentional. Ricardo Valentine, the Baltimore-born, Atlanta-raised artist who first surfaced in 2016 with the breakout debut ‘FREE 6LACK,’ has spent ten years building one of modern R&B’s most quietly devoted audiences. ‘Love Is The New Gangsta’ is the sound of that decade landing somewhere real. Speaking to ABC Audio, he explained the album title with the kind of directness that has always marked him: “When I was growing up, I kind of attributed that phrase to cool. And you grow up thinking certain things are cool that, as you mature, you realize what really is cool.” What is cool now, for 6LACK, is accountability. Family. Growth. The tour is the live extension of that argument.
Beats Per Minute described the album as a direct rejection of the detached posturing that made him famous, while Rolling Stone noted that space and contemplation are the ultimate foundation of the project. The 15-track record features collaborations with Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Leon Thomas, Odeal, and AZ Chike, and finds 6LACK stretching beyond his signature moody minimalism into soulful melody and atmospheric production that breathes differently than anything in his catalog.
Europe First, Then America
The tour opens its European run in Oslo before winding through Stockholm, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, and Paris, with UK stops in Bristol, Manchester, and London’s O2 Academy Brixton on October 1. Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre rounds out the international dates, with support from Johnny Venus on all European shows.
The North American leg launches October 21 in Portland, Oregon, with rapper and producer Eem Triplin joining as support for the full run. Major stops include Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium on November 3, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola Roxy on November 15, Brooklyn Paramount on December 7, and Toronto’s HISTORY on December 4. Pre-sale tickets go live May 28, with general on-sale starting May 29 at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
A Video, a Song, and a Statement
Ahead of the tour announcement, 6LACK shared a Levi Turner-directed video for “All That Matters,” the album’s third track, featuring Leon Thomas and AZ Chike. The visual is spare and grounded: electrical wires against a blue sky, shadows on brick, lovers moving in warm light. It suits a record that, at its core, is less about spectacle and more about what holds. “Before the pregnancy, our relationship was on the rocks,” 6LACK told Rolling Stone, referring to the period with his partner QUIN before the birth of their daughter Blaze in 2025. “I just started to vent and have open conversations about what I was going through, and we just knew we had to make an album about it.”
That kind of honesty carries through every show on this tour. Whether the room holds a thousand people in Tilburg or ten thousand in Houston, the message is the same one 6LACK has been working toward since his first record. Love, he says, is not a soft option. It is the whole point.
