{"id":224288,"date":"2026-03-17T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:59:08","slug":"grammy-award-winning-rapper-lil-wayne-to-perform-at-long-beach-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224288\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-Award Winning Rapper Lil Wayne To Perform at Long Beach Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Multiple Grammy-award-winning hip-hop artist Lil Wayne will perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Amphitheater<\/a> on Saturday, Aug. 1 , the venue announced March 17.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is billed as <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\/event\/lil-wayne%3a-20-years-of-carter-classics-with-the-game-%26-2-chainz\/tm_vvg1iz_kew2pkh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;20 Years of Carter Classics,&#8221;<\/a> which is a nod to the artist&#8217;s full name, Dewayne Carter, as well as his series of &#8220;The Carter&#8221; albums, which began in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s two opening acts are rappers The Game and 2 Chainz, both of whom are also Grammy winners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/lil-wayne-20-years-of-carter-long-beach-california-08-01-2026\/event\/0B006469F23E519B?utm_medium=affiliate&amp;irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;clickid=T%3AVW5X2R1xyZUBGSoeyb%3A3umUkuz6kwYrRGCSI0&amp;camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_4241810&amp;impradid=4241810&amp;REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat4241810&amp;wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_4241810&amp;utm_source=4241810-Simpleview&amp;impradname=Simpleview&amp;ircid=4272\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets go on sale March 20 through Ticketmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city-owned amphitheater, which is currently still under construction, is expected to be an 11,000-seat outdoor venue. It&#8217;s slated to open to the public with a July 11 concert featuring rocker Les Claypool and his band, Primus.<\/p>\n<p>Other acts also scheduled for shows later this year include &#8220;yacht rock&#8221; acts Toto and Christopher Cross on Aug. 14, country star Luke Bryan on Aug. 15, and cumbia band Los Angeles Azules on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Multiple Grammy-award-winning hip-hop artist Lil Wayne will perform at the Long Beach Amphitheater on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-224288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}