This influential rapper is coming for an arena show, Boise. Snoop Dogg will be there, too

If you’re a hip-hop fan, prepare to mark your calendar.

Grammy-winning rap superstar Snoop Dogg will headline the Holidaze of Blaze tour, a five-act show rolling into the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa on Wednesday, Dec. 14. Also on the bill: T-Pain, Warren G, Ying Yang Twins and Justin Champagne.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at fordidahocenter.com. Prices start at $59. A Ford Idaho Insider presale also will launch Wednesday, Nov. 2, using the promo code “HOLIDAZE.”

A mainstream cultural force, Snoop Dogg is one of the most famous rappers of all time. Despite coming to prominence in the early 1990s, he remains undeniably relevant — and ubiquitous. How many more times will we see his new Corona ads with Andy Samberg on TV before the NFL season ends?

Still, some Boise fans might be even more stoked to see fellow Grammy winner T-Pain. The singer and rapper dramatically impacted the music industry in his own love-it-or-loathe-it way. As USA Today noted in 2021, “T-Pain almost single-handedly popularized the use of the pitch-altering technology Auto-Tune in hip-hop, beginning with his 2005 debut hit single, ‘I’m Sprung,’ which made it to the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.” Over the next several years, T-Pain had a string of hits with his signature, synthesizer-like vocal sound.

Snoop Dogg’s most recent Treasure Valley performance came in 2019, when he appeared at the grand opening of Hotbox Farms cannabis dispensary in Ontario, Oregon. His last concert in the immediate Boise area was in 2015, when he headlined the Revolution Center in Garden City.

As for T-Pain? It’s been a few years, but he performed at the Knitting Factory in Boise in 2014.

This story was originally published October 31, 2022 at 2:20 PM.