A local favorite is taking his show to a much bigger stage.

Rapper Post Malone is bring his “The Big Ass Stadium Tour” — his first-ever stadium tour — to Salt Lake City in 2025. The tour will visit 25 cities across the United States and Canada and kick off in April 2025.

After two April shows in California — the dates and location match with the Coachella Festival, though the event’s slate has yet to be announced — Post Malone’s stadium tour will launch in Salt Lake City at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

A release announcing the tour from Live Nation “promises fans a concert experience filled with a mix of his biggest hits, fan favorites, and brand new songs from his sixth studio album, ‘F-1 Trillion’.” Malone’s latest album is his first step into the country music world, featuring a hit single with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help,” which was just nominated for Best County Song at the Grammy Awards, alongside a nomination in the “Best Country Duo/Group” category.

Malone will perform alongside country artist Jelly Roll and American singer-songwriter Sierra Ferrell at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Malone kicked off his arena tour for his latest album in Utah earlier this year, with two shows at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in September. Jelly Roll kicked off his arena tour in Utah at the Delta Center in August.

Though Malone recently moved to a new state, he’s become a local favorite both for his music and for living in Utah for some time. A Raising Cane’s franchise in Midvale has his mark all over it. Whenever he performs here, he’s welcomed home by Utahns.

This is the second stadium show to be announced at Rice-Eccles Stadium for 2025. Earlier this year, a Billy Joel and Sting show was announced for May 23.

Presale for the show for fans with a Citi card begins on Wednesday. Artist presale beings on Friday. Sign up for the presale at signup.ticketmaster.com/postmalone. General sale begins Tuesday, Nov. 26, at noon local time, at livenation.com.

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Louisiana-based rap artist pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a large-scale prescription drug fraud ring that operated out of his multimillion-dollar home in Utah.

Rapper NBA YoungBoy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, walked into a courtroom in Logan, Utah, with his head hung low as he entered the plea for his part in the alleged scheme, KTVX-TV reported.

The 25-year-old rapper was originally charged in the Logan District Court with 46 charges related to the alleged crime. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree felony identity fraud, two counts of third-degree felony forgery and six counts of misdemeanor unlawful pharmacy conduct. Gaulden entered a “no contest” plea to the remaining charges.

As part of a plea deal, Gaulden will not serve prison time in Utah. Instead, his four felony charges were reduced to Class A Misdemeanors and he was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine, the television station reported.

District Judge Spencer Walsh agreed to suspend a prison sentence as Gaulden is expected to serve a “substantial” 27 months in federal prison for related charges in a case stemming out of Weber County, Utah. Following his release, Gaulden will then be placed on five years of federal supervised probation.

“This is somewhat of a unique case where there have been multiple jurisdictions involved both in the federal and the state systems,” said state prosecutor Ronnie Keller. “This is just really a smaller cog in the bigger wheel of ultimately seeking justice.”

Gaulden had been living in Utah under house arrest, having previously been allegedly involved in a 2019 Miami shooting. His relocation to Utah came as part of a deal in 2021 in which his lawyers argued that “moving to Utah would keep YoungBoy out of trouble.”

During his hearing Monday, Walsh said it was clear that Gaulden was a very talented young man.

“I’ve seen so many times where you have young men and women who have a lot of talent and potential. They can be robbed of that potential when they start to really struggle with their addictions,” Walsh told Gaulden. “I don’t want that for you.”

Walsh continued saying, “I’m sure that in your future, once you’re done with your federal prison time, you can be really successful on federal probation and have a really bright future where you can reach your full potential in every aspect of your life. Best of luck to you, Mr. Gaulden.”

Gaulden, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, also is known as YoungBoy Never Broke Again and has achieved four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and one Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. His music includes “38 Baby,” “Outside Today” and Tyler, The Creator’s song, “Wusyaname,” on which he is featured with Ty Dolla $ign. That collaboration earned them a Grammy nomination in 2022 for Best Melodic Rap Performance.

Billboard reported only pop star Taylor Swift and rapper Drake had more streams in 2022, despite Gaulden having nearly zero radio airplay. According to Spotify, Gaulden has over 16 million monthly listeners.

Utah responded well to a disappointing loss at Northwestern last week, easily dispatching McNeese 118-50 at the Huntsman Center on Monday night.

The Utes (3-1) looked sharp on offense most of the night, hitting 13 3-pointers while shooting 60.3% from the field in overpowering the visiting Cowgirls.

“That was a good kind of get-right game in terms of our shooting and scoring,” Utah coach Lynne Roberts said. “You know, everybody contributed, everybody did their job, which was the goal, but we just played with a lot more swagger.”

3 takeaways

An early run helped kickstart the offense. Utah led 7-6 four minutes into the game — with six of those points coming off a pair of 3-pointers from Gianna Kneepkens — but the Utes created some separation by ending the first quarter on a 17-3 run, with contributions from numerous players.

Utah went on several extended runs throughout the game against an overmatched Cowgirls team. In the second quarter after the teams traded 3-pointers to start, Utah rattled off a 16-2 run to push the lead to 29 just four minutes into the frame.

In the second half, after McNeese initially outscored the Utes over the first few minutes, Utah went on a 20-4 run over four minutes, and through three quarters, Utah nearly had 100 points (the Utes went into the fourth quarter leading 99-48).

Utah then capped the contest by outscoring McNeese 19-2 in the final period.

The Utes ended the night shooting 60.3% from the field, with a quarter-best 75% in the second quarter when they scored 38 points to go into the half with a 62-27 lead.

That efficiency extended over to 3-point range, where Utah made 13 of 22, and the free-throw line, as the Utes went 23 of 29 from the charity stripe. Utah had assists on 27 of its 41 made field goals.

McNeese, meanwhile, shot just 25.8% for the game.

Kneepkens ended up with a team-high 24 points, breaking the 20-point barrier for the first time this season, showing the kind of competitiveness she’s been known for in her accomplished career at Utah.

The junior guard also had two assists and two steals.

“The goal was 25 assists. We had 27 on 41 made baskets. That’s awesome. Everybody did a good job,” Roberts said. “No game is perfect. As a coach, that’s kind of my job to nitpick, but I’m not going to do it tonight.

“I thought we played as hard as we could … and we shot much, much, much better than we did the other night in a game we will not mention, but proud of our team.”

It was a good night in the post. The Utes dominated inside against McNeese, finishing with a 54-12 edge in points in the paint.

Utah also outrebounded the Cowgirls 47-30. While both teams had eight offensive rebounds, the Utes owned a 15-7 edge in second-chance points.

Maye Toure, the transfer from Rhode Island, was nearly unstoppable, as she made 9 of 13 shots for 21 points — her second 20-point game of the season — while adding eight rebounds and two blocked shots.

Reese Ross also continued her strong start to the year, as she looks increasingly comfortable in her sophomore season. By night’s end, she had 16 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two steals and a blocked shot.

“I think the most important thing we tried to focus on this week was to just play simple and do our jobs and not doubt, just play with confidence, because we work hard and just play like it,” Toure said.

Maty Wilke bounced back well from a tough outing. In Utah’s two-point loss at Northwestern, junior guard Maty Wilke was 0 of 7 from 3-point range and had a tough night offensively, as she finished with 6 points. She had a shot to give Utah a lead in the final minute, but her final 3-point attempt was off the mark.

Wilke, like many of her teammates Monday, came out with a dogged determination against McNeese. She quickly made a pair of 3-pointers near the end of the first quarter, then found teammates for assists to help spark an early second-quarter run.

“I thought Maty came in really fearless,” Roberts said.

All totaled, Wilke had a career high 19 points, plus six assists and two steals in 19 minutes in her best game of the young season.

She made four 3-pointers.

Wilke said following last week’s loss, the focus for the Utes has been “to do our jobs” — and for her, that means bringing energy and shooting touch off the bench.

“I’ve worked a lot in a couple days we had … of just getting my mindset right to bring energy and then hitting open shots,” she said. “So basically, (the focus was) just doing our job and then trusting my teammates that they’re going to do theirs as well.”

What’s next

Utah will stay at home for a couple more games before heading to Grand Cayman Islands for a Thanksgiving week tournament.

The Utes host Saint Joseph’s on Friday at 7 p.m. in the back end of a doubleheader with the Utah men’s basketball team. The game will be streamed on ESPN+, with the radio broadcast on 700 AM.