Ja Rule And Eve Hooking Up For Tour
Yahoo! Music, Jan 15, 2003 1:00 pm PST(1/15/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- Ja Rule is scheduled to kick off a two-month tour on Thursday (January 16) at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The rapper will be joined on tour by Eve and on several dates by his labelmate Charli Baltimore.
Ja Rule recently released a second single, "Mesmerize" featuring Ashanti, from his latest album, The Last Temptation. The collection is Number 17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was recently certified platinum for sales of a million copies.
Meanwhile, Eve's latest set, Eve-olution, was recently certified gold for sales of 500,000 copies. Last week, she inked a deal with the UPN network to develop her own comedy series. Following the completion of her tour with Ja Rule, Eve will head to Europe in March for a European tour.
Ja Rule/Eve tour dates (subject to change):
January 16 - East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
January 29 - Lowell, MA - Paul E. Tsongas Arena
January 30 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
February 4 - Gainesville, FL - Stephen C. O'Connell Center
February 5 - Tampa, FL - USF Sun Dome
February 6 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House Of Blues
February 10 - Fort Wayne, IN - Allen Co. Memorial Coliseum
February 11 - East Lansing, MI - Breslin Events Center
February 12 - De Kalb, IL - Convocation Center
February 13 - Cedar Falls, IA - UNI Dome
February 15 - Carbondale, IL - So. Illinois University
February 16 - Champaign, IL - Assembly Hall
February 17 - Columbia, MO - Hearnes Center
February 19 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
February 20 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave / Eagles Ballroom
-- Yves Erwin Salomon, New York
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