2.24.2023

Album: Key Glock – Glockoma 2

The Paper Route Empire Rapper Levels Up With His New Album, Spanning 15 Tracks of Piping Hot Memphis Music

The 25-Year-Old Shares the Video for Project Highlight “Dirt”

The Album:

In the five years since releasing his 2018 mixtape Glockoma, Memphis’s Key Glock has established himself as one of the South’s essential rising stars. Coming through with the highly-anticipated sequel to his breakthrough tape, Key Glock shares Glockoma 2, a brand new full length. Rhyming over soulful, speaker-knocking trap beats, Glock shoulders the 15 track length, as always, without any features: “I might just go and pay myself for a feature/It’s Glizock, I be fresh and I finesse ya like a preacher,” he spits on the closing track “F*ck A Feature.” The 25-year-old rapper levels up his pen game, taking inspiration from the late Young Dolph to hone his metaphors and sharpen his punchlines, while keeping the same suavity that his fans expect. Home to recent singles “Work” and “Dirt,” plus the Fall 2022 hit “From Nothin,“ along with new highlights like the triumphant “Chromosomes” and the cloudy lyrical showcase “Key Rex, “Glockoma 2 is available everywhere via Paper Route Empire.

Along with Glockoma 2, Key Glock shares the video for “Dirt.” Released earlier this week, “Dirt” is the album’s forceful opening track. Backed by a heartening, vintage soul-sampling instrumental, the track finds Glock powering through life’s highs and lows while maintaining a sober perspective on the streets: “Number one rule: get that money, mane, (I learned that sh*t from Dolph)/It ain’t no shame up in my game, (I’m tryna get it off)/This street sh*t is just not the same, (most of these n****s soft).” In the video, Glock heads out to the desert, spitting bars as spiky as the surrounding Saguaro cactuses.

Following the album’s release, Key Glock embarks on SiriusXM’s Hip-Hop Nation Presents: Key Glock – Glockoma Tour. The 32-date run kicks off on March 5th at Atlanta’s Coca-Cola Roxy, making stops in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, and more before wrapping up in Nashville, TN at Marathon Music Works on April 28th. Key Glock will perform his vast array of hits, including the recently Platinum-certified “Ambition For Cash” and the recently GOLD-certified “Dough.” The tour features support from NC riser TiaCorine, Glock’s Paper Route Empire brethren Kenny Muney and Jay Fizzle, and Dallas rapper BigXThaPlug will join as a special guest for the Texas dates. With five dates already sold out, and low-ticket warnings for multiple other shows, tickets for SiriusXM’s Hip-Hop Nation Presents: Key Glock – Glockoma Tour are available now at keyglock.com.

Glockoma 2 heralds a big 2023 for Glock, and follows up PRE5L, Glock’s EP, released on in November 2022. The five-track project paints a way forward for the legendary Memphis label, as the 25-year-old rapper shows his determination to lead Paper Route Empire into a bright future. Released on #DolphDay, PRE5L is dedicated to Glock’s mentor Young Dolph. Fans of Dolph and Glock can pay tribute to Dolph at the traveling Dolphland museum, which hits San Antonio this weekend, before heading to Washington, DC and CHicago in the near future.

Buy Glockoma 2: https://music.empi.re/glockoma2

Watch “Dirt”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBbfksGeWDk

Buy tickets for “The Glockoma Tour” at keyglock.com

Buy tickets for Dolphland at YOUNGDOLPH.COM

SIRIUSXM’S HIP-HOP NATION PRESENTS KEY GLOCK – GLOCKOMA TOUR DATES:

Sun Mar 05 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
Thu Mar 09 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
Fri Mar 10 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
Sat Mar 11 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
Sun Mar 12 – Greensboro, NC — Piedmont Hall
Wed Mar 15 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
Thu Mar 16 – Washington, DC – Echostage
Sat Mar 18 – Queens, NY – The Knockdown Center
Sun Mar 19 – Boston, MA – Big Night Live
Wed Mar 22 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center
Thu Mar 23 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
Fri Mar 24 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
Sat Mar 25 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
Sun Mar 26 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall
Wed Mar 29 – Chicago, IL – Radius
Thu Mar 30 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Fri Mar 31 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis
Sun Apr 02 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Tue Apr 04 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Thu Apr 06 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo*
Sat Apr 08 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Tue Apr 11 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Fri Apr 14 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
Sat Apr 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
Sun Apr 16 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Thu Apr 20 – San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theatre
Fri Apr 21 – San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theatre
Sat Apr 22 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
Sun Apr 23 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
Wed Apr 26 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore New Orleans
Thu Apr 27 – Birmingham, AL – Avondale Brewing Company
Fri Apr 28 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
*Not A Live Nation Date