Wiz Khalifa announces 2019 Decent Exposure Tour, including San Diego concert in August

Rapper Wiz Khalifa will perform in 29 North American cities on his 2019 Decent Exposure tour.

April 22, 2019 3:43 PM PT

Hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa will have a lot of on-stage assistance for his 2019 Decent Exposure tour.

Support acts for the 29-city North American concert trek include French Montana, Playboi Carti, Chevy Woods, Moneybagg Yo and DJ Drama.

The tour opens July 9 at Atlanta’s Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood, concludes Aug. 15 at Boise’s Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater and includes an Aug. 10 San Diego show at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre.

All tour dates appear below, along with ticket information.

The tour announcement follows Friday’s surprise release of Khalifa’s 14-track mixtape, “Fly Times Vol. 1: The Good Fly Young.”

Tickets for the Decent Exposure tour go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time at livenation.com. A pre-sale for Citi card members begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time and runs until Thursday at 10 p.m. local time. VIP and fan club pre-sales will also be held from 10 a.m. Tuesday local time until Thursday at 10 p.m. local time. A number of other online pre-sales will also be held for the San Diego show.

Wiz Khalifa 2019 Decent Exposure tour dates

July 9 — Atlanta, GA @ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood

July 10 — Charlotte, N.C. @ PNC Music Pavilion

July 12 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Banks Art Center

July 13 — Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre

July 14 — Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center

July 16 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

July 18 — Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion

July 19 — Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live

July 20 — Pittsburgh, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion

July 21 — Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater

July 23 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage

July 25 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center

July 26 — Indianapolis, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center

July 27 — Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

July 28 — Columbus, OH @ Express Live!

July 30 — Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center

July 31 — Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Center

Aug. 1 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Aug. 2 — Camdenton, MO @ Ozarks Amphitheater

Aug. 3 — Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion

Aug. 4 — San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre

Aug. 6 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium

Aug. 7 — Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre

Aug. 9 — Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre

Aug. 10 — San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

Aug. 11 — Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion

Aug. 13 — Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre

Aug. 14 — Ridgefield, WA @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater

Aug. 15 — Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater

George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”