The Make America Slime Again Tour (abbreviated as MASA Tour) is the ongoing fourth concert tour by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, in support of his eighth studio album, MASA (2025).[1] The tour commenced on September 1, 2025, in Dallas, Texas, and will conclude on November 12, 2025, in Seattle, Washington, consisting of 45 shows.[2] The tour is Gaulden's first in five years since his Still Flexin, Still Steppin Tour in 2020.[3][4][5]
Originally a 27-date-long arena tour,[1] the tour was given new dates on several occasions due to increasingly high demand following its pre-sale, leading to an additional 18 dates being added to the tour: 5 in May,[6] and 13 in June.[7] Gaulden's set includes songs from different eras of his career; despite the tour supporting MASA, few songs are played from the album. The tour's supporting acts are DeeBaby, K3, Lil Dump, NoCap, Offset, and Toosii, with NoCap and Toosii switching for certain dates. Kevin Gates, Mellow Rackz, and OTB Fastlane have appeared as guest performers.[8]Teyana Taylor helped coordinate the creative photography and production direction for the tour.[9]
Background
On September 2, 2022, Gaulden's manager, Alex Junier, confirmed that he would embark on a 30-stop tour upon his release from house arrest with Never Broke Again signee, Quando Rondo.[10] Junier later revealed that Chicago would be the first stop on the tour, seemingly a dig at Chicago-based rapper, Lil Durk who Gaulden was in a publicized feud with, at the time.[11] However, on November 23, Gaulden took to his Instagram to denounce the tour, stating that he turned down a tour deal worth over $15 million: "Every $15 million tour come my way getting turned down. I don't wanna do another show. I don't want nothing but a bigger house. It gave me time for myself. My daughter know who I am – I know who I am".[12]
After years of being under house arrest, Gaulden was officially released on probation in April 2025.[13] Upon his release, on May 3, Gaulden released the tracks "Where I Been" and "Shot Callin" before his associate, Kyle "Montana" Claiborne revealed that he's working on an album and a tour.[14] On May 15, Gaulden and his Never Broke Again label announced the tour and its dates in a promotional trailer, revealing that tickets would be up for sale on May 20.[15]
Following the tour's pre-sale on May 15, resulting in several dates completely selling out, an additional five dates were added to the tour.[6] On May 18, EBK Jaaybo, a supporting act on the tour was arrested by Arkansas State Police for felony firearm charges. This resulted in rumors that he had been removed from the tour, which were later deemed false.[16]
On May 29, 2025, Gaulden was granted a presidential pardon by Donald Trump, permitting him to not have to submit to his previous probation restrictions.[17] Days later, on June 2, Gaulden and his team took to Instagram to announce an additional 13 dates due to high demand.[7]
On June 16, Gaulden took to his Instagram to announce that his album would drop on July 4, the day of independence for the United States, seemingly matching the name of his tour, which refers to Make America Great Again.[18]
Ahead of the first date of Gaulden's Make America Slime Again Tour in Dallas, Texas, he donated $50,000 to two non-profit charities, Manifest Freedom and Urban Specialists. Gaulden appeared on WFAA news and said: "You know, a lot of people be getting hurt, so it ain't really cool at this point to me, [...] I just want to help in any way I can".[19][20][21]
Concert synopsis
The Make America Slime Again Tour concerts are divided into three acts. They are often performed without guest appearances; however, there are exceptions on certain dates, during which Gaulden may choose to bring out a guest performer, for example, during the tour's first night, Kevin Gates joined Gaulden to perform their song, "TTG".[22]
Gaulden's sets were often lit with a gloomy, dark green color.[23] The coreography, directed by Teyana Taylor's The Aunties Production,[24] featured numerous women dressed in "military colors", as was Gaulden who adopted a mix of a hip-hop and rock fashion style.[23] Gaulden's outfits often incorporate leather jackets, wallet chains, large boots, gloves, and bedazzled belts.[23]
The stage screen often played videos of a cemetery with tombstones in the background, with hallucinations of ghosts rising above several Crucifixes, giving a spooky aesthetic.[22] The stage set-up included a model house with American flags, in reference to the cover art of his album, MASA.[22] The shows opened with the first verse from "MASA". Gaulden made his stage entrance through a coffin descending from above with Gaulden inside, with "his hands draped over his chest like a Chrome Hearts Dracula". As the coffin descended, "a line of dancers in American flag bandanas and fatigue skirts" shot fake rifles at a coffin descending from above with Gaulden inside.[22]
On several occasions, the model house on the stage would break in half with the roof lifting off so that Gaulden could "start aggressively rapping, standing supreme while the house crumbles around him", which critics would compare to the 2025 horror, Sinners.[23] Thousands of people at the shows were equiped with green bandanas, whcih were being sold by vendors outside the arenas for $7 each, with critics noting that the shows resemble a "2000s video game set in the Florida Keys swamp".[23] Critics also pointed out the "pungent" smell of cannabis in the arena, despite it being prohibetted.[23]
Critical reception
The tour received highly positive reviews from critics, who praised Gaulden's performance.
Reviewing the tour's fourth night in Houston, Texas, DeVaughn Douglas for the Houston Press wrote that "the stage show itself also reflected [Gaulden's] growth" and that "what once was a no-frills display of raw mixtape energy has evolved into a full-scale production", praising the tour's production.[25] He continued, writing that "the show underscored how far YoungBoy has come as a performer" and that Gaulden balances "raw energy" with "with production designed for arenas".[25] Reviewing the same night in Houston, Shawn Grant for The Source wrote that "everything about the show was turned up" and that "the bass was so heavy you could feel it in your chest", continuing that "the lights and visuals kept shifting with every beat, and YoungBoy’s dancers and team made sure the momentum never dipped".[26] Grant concluded, writing that "this wasn’t just a rap concert. It was a generational moment".[26] In a review of the tour seventh night in Oakland, California, Riff Magazine's AJ Tinio wrote that Gaulden "delivered a theatrical, tightly focused set that leaned heavily into the tour’s green theme".[27]
In a review of the tour's seventeenth night in Newark, New Jersey, Jayson Buford of Rolling Stone begun his review, noting that the number of songs Gaulden performed was almost "overwhelming" and that despite the potential of "a sensory overload", you will never be bored by Gaulden's "compulsion, appetites, or his enduring melancholy that exist in the fog of the music, even when he is being violent, even when he is an egotistical maximalist".[23] Commenting on the stage design, Buford wrote that "compared to other rap tours, YoungBoy’s stage design was more catered to the contemporary rap fan than to an elitist crowd", describing the concert as "a carnival of distrust".[23] In another positive review of the tour's seventeenth night in Newark, New Jersey, The Fader's Dylan Green wrote that "the crowd’s energy rarely faltered throughout the night" and that Gaulden "approached the show with a quiet magnetism".[22] Green Continued writing that "every ballad [became] the largest karaoke session in Newark".[22] Green concluded his review noting that, "the bleeding heart at the center of his music rang even louder than the cries of the adoring arena".[22]
Set list
This set list is representative of the show in Dallas, Texas, on September 1, 2025.[28] It does not represent all of the concerts for the duration of the tour.[29]
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