Little Brother announced their final tour ever. On Monday, the legendary rap group — comprising rappers Phonte and Big Pooh (and formerly producer 9th Wonder) — shared that they will embark on the aptly-named Curtain Call: The Final Tour in May. The nationwide, 12-city tour will hold its last traditional show where it began for them in Raleigh, North Carolina. But they will play four more late October dates on the Rock the Bells cruise.
Little Brother MC Phonte referenced the Rock the Bells cruise in 2023, when he talked to Rolling Stone about performing for older fans. “I think hip-hop needs that space to say, ‘OK, if you a young boy starting out, OK, you on the Rolling Loud circuit,’” he said. “Once you get a little older, OK, now maybe we doing festivals, but now they doing the Rock the Bells cruise [too]. There’s a place to grow older in hip-hop and there are people that still want to hear that music, but you got to meet those people where they are.”
Curtain Call: The Final Tour comes after the pair reconnected (sans 9th Wonder) in 2018 and dropped 2019’s May the Lord Watch album. Since then, the duo has toured to celebrate their 2003 album The Listening, and later that year, dropped a pair of tracks, “Wish Me Well” and “Glory Glory.” In 2024, they released May the Lord Watch, a poignant documentary they crafted with documentary studio Rap Portraits.
on Monday, Pooh announced on the social platform X that they wouldn’t be dropping another album, solely focusing on the Curtain Call Tour as the last Little Brother endeavor.
Little Brother’s Curtain Call: The Final Tour Dates
May 24 — Baltimore, MD @ Artscape Festival
June 27-28 — Boston, MA @ Bams Fest
Aug. 1 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
Aug. 2 — Washington, D.C. @ Howard Theatre
Aug. 8 — Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
Aug. 9 — Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Aug. 28-31 — Napa, CA @ Blue Note Jazz Festival
Sept. 13 — Chicago, IL @ The Metro
Sept. 19 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Sept. 20 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda
Oct. 24 — Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
Oct. 27-31 — Rock The Bells Cruise
