Club Paradise Tour

With: Kendrick Lamar · A$AP Rocky · 2 Chainz · Meek Mill · Waka Flocka Flame · J. Cole

Overview

Club Paradise is the tour that crystallized Drake as a generation-defining headliner. Built on Take Care, it ran roughly 60 dates across North America and Europe and packaged together the future of rap — Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, and J. Cole all rotated through the bill, which in hindsight reads as one of the most loaded support packages of the 2010s. Live, Drake leaned into Take Care's late-night, melancholic palette: 'Marvins Room,' 'Headlines,' 'HYFR,' 'Take Care,' and 'The Motto' all became fixed centerpieces, with the Rihanna-less 'Take Care' becoming a crowd-led duet moment. Production stayed clean and band-driven, with Noah '40' Shebib's mixing aesthetic shaping the sonic feel of each room. The tour was widely cited by Billboard and Pollstar as one of 2012's highest-grossing hip-hop runs, and it set the architecture — heavy support roster, OVO-branded staging, hometown ACC moment — that Drake would scale up for every subsequent headline cycle. The Toronto Air Canada Centre date in particular became a recurring template for OVO hometown gravity.

Legs & Routing

North America
May 7 – Jun 16, 2012
- • Take Care arena rollout
Openers: Kendrick Lamar · A$AP Rocky · 2 Chainz · Meek Mill · Waka Flocka Flame · J. Cole
Notable venues
- · Madison Square Garden, New York
- · Air Canada Centre, Toronto
- · Staples Center, Los Angeles
Europe / UK
Mar 17 – Apr 4, 2012
- • European arena warm-up leg
Openers: A$AP Rocky