THE BRONX
Ten years after Artist introduced him, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie is closing out 2026 the way an artist with his catalog should: in arenas, with the anniversary as the headline. The Bronx rapper will wrap the year with a North American arena run anchored by two sold-out nights at UBS Arena in Elmont on October 29 and 30 — billed as 10 Years of Artist — before hitting Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Orlando, Minneapolis and Hartford through mid-December.
Exclaim!, in its announcement of the anniversary dates, billed the Elmont pair as the centerpiece of the fall run. The full routing is compact and deliberate. After the Elmont pair, the tour plays Boston's Agganis Arena on November 7 and Philadelphia's Liacouras Center on November 14, crosses the border for Toronto's Scotiabank Arena on November 28, then swings south to the Orlando Amphitheater on December 5. Minneapolis gets the show at The Armory on December 12, and the year closes at Hartford's PeoplesBank Arena on December 19. Support across select dates is a lineup that maps the current rap landscape: DaBaby, G Herbo and Moneybagg Yo alongside BabyChiefDoit, Cash Cobain, J.I the Prince, NTG, Yung Miami and Zeddy Will.
The anniversary framing is earned. Artist, A Boogie's 2016 debut mixtape, is RIAA Platinum-certified, and the two UBS Arena sellouts say the hometown market — Elmont sits just outside New York City, a short trip from the Highbridge section of the Bronx where Artist Julius Dubose grew up — still treats those songs as home turf. A decade in, the mixtape that made his melodic, emotionally direct style a signature is strong enough to sell out an arena twice on its name alone.
The arena run is the capstone of a milestone year rather than a standalone victory lap. A Boogie opened 2026 with a sold-out hometown Boogie Bash at Radio City Music Hall, then released the six-track EP Before Artistry, which BroadwayWorld described as the next chapter of his run as "The Artist." The EP's standouts include "Glitchin," "Show Me Something Real," "PGD" with Kyle Richh and Zeddy Will, and "Red Light" with Trippie Redd — new material that gives the anniversary shows a present tense instead of leaving them as pure nostalgia.
Then there is the single that kept his name on the charts while the tour was being routed. "Part of Me," released last October, interpolates Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and became another worldwide hit for him, entering Billboard's Hot 100 along with the Rhythmic Airplay and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts and singles charts in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It is a neat piece of symmetry for an anniversary year: a new generation of listeners met him through a record built on one of the biggest R&B songs of the 2000s, and the arena dates now give those listeners the full ten-year story.
The catalog underneath the tour also got measurably bigger on paper this year. A run of new RIAA certifications at the end of 2025 moved "Look Back At It" to 7x Platinum, pushed "Jungle" and "Still Think About You" to 5x Platinum, took "Demons and Angels" and "Me and My Guitar" to 2x Platinum, brought "Friend Zone" to Platinum, and certified "Might Not Give Up" and "Bleed" Gold. Add the career totals carried in his billing — more than 21 billion streams and more than 50 RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications — and the arena routing stops looking ambitious. It looks proportionate.
What fans at these shows can expect is a set built on that depth. A Boogie's live catalog stretches from the Artist era through Hoodie SZN and beyond — "Drowning," "Swervin," "My Sh*t," "Timeless" and "Startender" are the kind of records that turned a Bronx mixtape run into a decade-long arena career, and an anniversary production gives him every reason to play the whole arc rather than just the recent singles. The support bill, rotating by city, should make each night feel locally distinct rather than a copy of the last.
There is also a Bronx logic to how the year was sequenced. Radio City in the winter, an EP in the spring and summer months, and arenas in the fall means the anniversary never had to carry the whole year by itself — each step fed the next, and the UBS sellouts arrived with momentum already behind them rather than nostalgia doing all the work.
Tickets for the run went through presales beginning September 30 with the general on-sale following on October 2, and the Elmont dates are already gone. For the remaining cities, the December stops in particular — Orlando on the 5th, Minneapolis on the 12th, Hartford on the 19th — are the kind of year-end arena nights that tend to move once the anniversary shows start generating footage. Ten years of Artist, it turns out, is not a look back. For A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, it is the biggest room he has ever closed a year in.
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