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Drake is paying tribute to late fashion icon Virgil Abloh with a permanent heartfelt gesture.
The 35-year-old superstar rapper commemorated the former Louis Vuitton and Off-White designer, who died in late November following a battle with cancer, with a special new tattoo on his forearm. Los Angeles-based tattoo artist Joaquin Ganga took to Instagram on Wednesday (Dec. 22) to share a photo of Drake’s latest ink, a realistic design of Abloh launching a kite during the Louis Vuitton menswear show at Paris Fashion Week in 2018.
“A remembrance of the great Virgil Abloh done on Drake @champagnepapi @virgilabloh,” Ganga captioned the black-and-white snapshot.
Abloh passed away on Nov. 28 after a private two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Following his death, Drake was among numerous musical acts to honor the designer for his artistic contributions.
“My plan is to touch the sky 1000 more times for you…love you eternally brother thank you for everything,” the Toronto MC captioned an Instagram photo gallery of himself with Abloh.
In addition to his contributions in fashion, Abloh was a DJ and served as Kanye West’s longtime creative director. He also helped design iconic album covers by West, A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert and Pop Smoke, and teamed up with Kid Cudi on the Kurt Cobain-inspired floral print dress worn by the rapper during Saturday Night Live appearance earlier in the year.
See Drake’s new tattoo in honor of Abloh below.
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John Summit is preparing for the biggest tour of his career this fall with the launch of his 20 date CTRL ESCAPE arena tour, beginning Oct. 1. The massive run arrives in support of his latest album CTRL ESCAPE, which was released on April 15.
The tour will officially kick off in Champaign, a meaningful starting point for Summit since it is the same city where he studied accounting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before transitioning into music full time. His past life working toward a career in accounting also heavily inspired themes throughout the new album.
Following the opening date, the tour heads into Canada for three performances before returning to the United States for a stretch of East Coast shows and southern stops, including two dates in his adopted home city of Miami. Summit will then return to his hometown of Chicago for two performances before wrapping up the run with stops in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and a final show in Oakland.
The arena trek adds to what has already been another packed year for the producer. This summer, Summit is scheduled to hold a residency at UNVRS in Ibiza, headline Lollapalooza in late July, and host the second edition of his Experts Only Festival on Randall’s Island in New York on Sept. 19 and 20.
Summit has already started teasing the arena production on social media, recently posting a rendering of the planned stage design. A full scale arena tour of this size remains relatively uncommon within electronic music and follows previous major headline performances at Folsom Field in Boulder and Madison Square Garden in New York.
See the complete tour schedule below.
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