The North West tour that fans have been counting down to since June is officially not happening. Ticketmaster pulled the plug on the opening show of the Molly x North Kimokawaii Tour, and now the entire run appears to be unraveling just days before North and Molly Santana were set to hit the stage.
North, 13, is the oldest child of Kim Kardashian and Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and she has spent the past year building a music career of her own. She dropped her debut EP “N0rth4evr” in May, and the Kimokawaii Tour was supposed to be the victory lap. Instead, the North West tour dates started disappearing from ticketing sites this week, and the tour’s official website has been wiped from the internet entirely.
The 14 date co-headlining run with Molly Santana was announced back on June 16, just weeks after the pair shared a stage at Rolling Loud in Miami and later at Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash in Chicago. The tour was set to kick off August 5 at the House of Blues in Dallas and wrap August 27 in Los Angeles, hitting cities like Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Toronto and Chicago along the way.
Now the Dallas show and the August 17 stop in Toronto are both marked canceled on Ticketmaster, and nearly every remaining date has quietly been scrubbed from venue websites too. The Midway in San Francisco was reportedly the last venue still holding onto its August 25 listing, though even that could change any day now.
The Kardashian family had been fully locked in on this era of North’s career. Kim and the rest of the family had been posting themselves dancing along to North’s new album on Instagram, showing the same public support they gave her debut EP back in May. That makes the North West tour cancellation an even bigger gut punch, since it comes right as her family was leaning into her music in a very visible way.
Neither North nor Molly has offered any explanation for the abrupt cancellation, and their teams have stayed just as quiet. No mention of scheduling conflicts, no mention of production issues, no mention of anything at all. The North West tour just started disappearing off ticketing platforms with zero warning to the thousands of fans who already had tickets in hand.
That silence has fans filling in their own blanks. Some are pointing to the timing, since the cancellation news broke less than a week before the Dallas opener, which is an unusually late stage to be scrapping a run this size. Others are wondering if North’s age and the demands of a 14-city tour played a role, given she is still just 13 and juggling a music career alongside a very public family life. None of that has been confirmed by anyone close to North, Molly or the tour, so treat it as speculation until someone actually says something on the record.
This would have been North’s first true headlining tour, and it was shaping up to be a real moment for her. She has already logged features with FKA Twigs and pulled festival crowds at Rolling Loud, and she has also linked up with Lil Novi, the son of Lil Wayne, along with her uncle Travis Scott. Molly brought her own following into the mix too, coming off her album, “Molly and Her Week of Wonders” and a recent appearance on Drake’s “Iceman” cut Ran To Atlanta. Together they had real buzz behind the Kimokawaii name, which translates from Japanese as gross cute, a fitting description for the aesthetic North has been building since she started stepping into the spotlight on her own terms.
Fans who had already booked flights and hotel rooms around the North West tour are venting across social media, with plenty of them more frustrated by the lack of communication than the cancellation itself. Getting a heads up days before an opening show, after months of promotion, is not the experience most ticket holders expected from an artist who built so much of her fan base through direct access on Instagram and TikTok. That gap between how personal North’s online presence usually feels and how impersonal this cancellation played out is exactly what has people talking.
For now, anyone holding tickets should check directly with their point of purchase for refund details, since Ticketmaster and AXS listings are updating in real time as more dates get pulled. The North West tour saga is still unfolding, and given how fast this fell apart, more updates could land before the weekend is even over. Whatever North has planned next, fans are hoping the something special she teased shows up a lot sooner than answers about what actually happened here.
