Jungle Tour

Overview

The Jungle Tour was a compact 11-show run staged in summer 2015 to support If You're Reading This It's Too Late, the mixtape Drake had dropped without warning in February. Named after the IYRTITL short film and the song 'Jungle,' it was deliberately tight — just over two weeks, top-five North American markets only — and emphasized the colder, harder Drake of the post-Wayne, pre-Views moment. Future opened most dates, off the back of DS2 and just before What a Time to Be Alive (which Drake and Future would release in September), and Travis Scott also opened select shows during his Rodeo build. The Jungle setlist leaned on '6 God,' '10 Bands,' 'Energy,' 'Know Yourself,' 'Used To,' and 'No Tellin'' alongside a few Take Care anchors. Production was stripped back — a single elevated stage, minimal video, heavy use of low-end and red lighting — designed to mirror the cold, paranoid aesthetic of the mixtape itself. The tour functioned as a bridge cycle: it kept Drake in arenas in 2015 without the cost of a full Views rollout, and it directly set up the Future co-billing chemistry that would anchor Summer Sixteen the next year.

Legs & Routing

• North America

  Jul 24 – Aug 8, 2015
  • • Short, high-demand run during the If You're Reading This It's Too Late era

  Openers: Future · Travis Scott

  Shows: 11

  Notable venues

  • · Air Canada Centre, Toronto
  • · Madison Square Garden, New York
  • · The Forum, Los Angeles

Notable Moments

• Toronto ACC date with Future joining for joint Drake/Future cuts (preview of WATTBA)
• Madison Square Garden — sold out instantly on announcement
• 'Know Yourself' 'running through the 6' chant moments that became fan-tracked viral

Sources

Pitchfork, Billboard