Lupe Fiasco in Cleveland

Lupe Fiasco is an American rapper born in Chicago in 1982, known for intricate, socially engaged hip-hop. His 2006 debut album, Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor, introduced “Kick, Push” and “Daydreamin’”; later releases included The Cool and Lasers, home to “Superstar” and “The Show Goes On.” In 2008, he performed in arenas on Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour, which also featured Rihanna and N.E.R.D. He later built headline shows around complete-album performances, celebrating his debut’s tenth anniversary in 2016 and taking The Cool on a fifteenth-anniversary tour in 2022.

Gym Class Heroes are an American alternative hip-hop and rap-rock band formed in Geneva, New York, in 1997. Fronted by rapper Travie McCoy, the group uses live drums, guitar and bass and is known for “Cupid’s Chokehold,” “Clothes Off!!” and the Adam Levine collaboration “Stereo Hearts.” Its key albums include The Papercut Chronicles and As Cruel as School Children. In 2007, Gym Class Heroes toured North American arenas on Fall Out Boy’s Young Wild Things Tour, which also featured Plain White T’s and Cute Is What We Aim For. The following year they joined Panic at the Disco on the Honda Civic Tour, then returned to the road with Fall Out Boy for Believers Never Die Part Deux in 2009.