Tour Finale Spark
The Kendrick ScHoolboy Q reunion turned a blockbuster tour finale into a victory lap in Sydney. As Kendrick Lamar closed his Grand National Tour behind GNX, he surprised Allianz Stadium by bringing out ScHoolboy Q. The pair roared into Collard Greens. This Oxymoron standout cemented their chemistry in 2014. 
Black Hippy Ties
The moment carried the weight of Black Hippy lore. Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock formed their iron-sharpening circle around 2009 at Top Dawg Entertainment. A formal group album never arrived, but their cross-pollination shaped the last decade of West Coast rap. Collard Greens remains a calling card for that era, with Lamar’s elastic verse and Q’s rowdy charisma built for arenas.
Kendrick ScHoolboy Q reunion
Clips from the night show the stadium chorus swallowing the hook, a reminder that festival anthems grow into folk songs. It also underlined how rare the pairing feels on major stages today. Doechii and ScHoolboy Q handled opening duties on the Australian leg, setting a pace that Lamar accelerated with the surprise. The nostalgia hit, but it landed as momentum, not mere memory.
Record-Breaking Context
The Grand National Tour, co-headlined with SZA across much of its run, charted a new benchmark. Billboard reports $256.4 million gross and 1.1 million tickets sold through July alone. Even before the year’s end, it became the highest-grossing co-headline tour ever, surpassing Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s On The Run Tour. Europe in July and then Latin America in September extended the global footprint, even as SZA sat out the latter stretch.
Legacy In Motion
Collard Greens live in 2025 felt like a lineage meeting the present tense. The Kendrick ScHoolboy Q reunion mapped the continuum from TDE’s rise to hip-hop’s current stadium scale. It also hinted at how strategic nostalgia now powers live music, elevating already premium tours. If GNX framed Lamar’s latest chapter, this cameo reminded fans of the collaborative engine that helped build his myth. The finale doubled as a thesis: craft, community, and scale can coexist, and when they do, crowds sing every bar.



