Premo Rice returns to Chicago for the first time since 2023

The D.C.-area rapper brings his Another Night at the Chateau Tour to Bottom Lounge on Friday, Nov. 13.

The last time Premo Rice played Chicago was Aug. 31, 2023, at the Promontory in Hyde Park. More than three years and a stack of new records later, he is back. Premo Rice headlines Bottom Lounge on Friday, Nov. 13, with the show listed for 8 p.m.

Tickets are through OpenDate, where the date is billed as part of the Another Night at the Chateau Tour. The show was announced Oct. 22, and Bottom Lounge holds about 700, a step into a bigger room than the last visit.

The tour name is a nod to his own catalog. A Night at the Chateau is a 2019 Premo Rice project, with tracks including "Malaysia" featuring Larry June, as listed in his AllMusic discography. Naming a 2026 tour after it suggests a night that leans on the songs that built his following, not just the newest ones.

Premo Rice is a rapper from the Washington, D.C., area, most often tied to Prince George's County, Maryland, according to his Last.fm biography. He started out producing beats around 2013 and began rapping himself because he wasn't happy with how other people were using them, a backstory that explains a lot about his records. The sound leans soulful and sample-based, with a modern G-funk streak; he has named Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield among his influences.

He has also kept good company. His collaborations with Curren$y, including "Vintage Luxury," and with Larry June put him in a lane of laid-back, luxury-minded rap that rewards close listening as much as volume. The Rice Tape, from 2021, reached the Apple Music Top 50 without a major label push, per that same bio.

Three years away, a bigger room, and a tour named after the record that put him on. That is what a return is supposed to look like.

What has changed since 2023 is mostly volume of work. iHeartRadio lists a run of 2025 releases: Sucka Free in April, Bad Muhf\*cka in May and TCB Style in August. That is a lot of new material for a crowd that last saw him before any of it existed, and a Friday night set is the first chance Chicago has had to hear those songs live.

Expect a show that moves at the music's pace: smooth, confident and built on grooves rather than shouted hooks. Rooms like Bottom Lounge work well for that kind of set, close enough that the crowd can catch every bar.

It is a Friday, it starts at 8, and he has been gone long enough. Get a ticket, get there early, and welcome him back to town.

Sources: JamBase: Premo Rice at Bottom Lounge (jambase.com); OpenDate tickets: Premo Rice, Another Night at the Chateau Tour (app.opendate.io); AllMusic: Premo Rice (allmusic.com); Last.fm: Premo Rice biography (last.fm); iHeartRadio: Premo Rice (iheart.com); Apple Music: Premo Rice (music.apple.com)