Fresh from his surprise win of the 2018 Pulitzer Music Prize, ground-breaking US rapper and political activist Kendrick Lamar has announced a national tour in support of his hugely successful successful album Damn.

Already announced as the headliner for this year’s Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay, the twelve-time Grammy Award winner will kick off his visit Down Under with a show at Perth Arenaon July 10.

Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, Lamar is currently riding high on the Australian charts with Black Panther: The Album, which he curated, and collaborations with SZA (All the Stars), The Weeknd(Pray for Me) and Skrillex(Humble).

Humble also saw him land at number one on triple j’s Hottest 100 in January, one of four Lamar entries in this year’s countdown.

Tickets to the Perth Arena show go on sale at 2pm on Monday through Ticketek.