Tour new: A$AP Rocky returns for first stadium show

A$AP Rocky will visit New Zealand for his first stadium show in February.

He's performed at New Year's Festival La Di Da and at Auckland's Logan Campbell Centre, but next time A$AP Rocky hits Auckland he'll be performing in a stadium.

The Harlem rapper, responsible for one of the year's best rap albums with May's At. Long. Last. ASAP, will perform at Vector Arena on February 24.

Rocky has previously headlined defunct New Year's festival La Di Da, as well as a Logan Campbell centre show with his A$AP Mob buddy A$AP Ferg.

Herald reviewer Chris Schulz said the show came in two parts, the first with Rocky performing on his own in front of a velvet red curtain.

"After delivering those early blows, Rocky disappeared behind his curtains to deliver the best track of the night in Suddenly, a slowburning soul stunner that morphed into moshpit mayhem as the curtains dropped to reveal Rocky's full band, including three members of his rap collective A$AP Mob," he wrote.

Rocky started his career by releasing the 2011 mixtape Live. Love. A$AP, which resulted in him signing a $3 million deal with Sony.

He's released two studio albums, with his latest hailed among 2015's best rap albums alongside Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and Vince Staples' Summertime '06.

Tickets are on sale from October 29. Pre-sales begin on October 27.

- nzherald.co.nz