Nine Vicious plays The Echo Lounge & Music Hall in Dallas on Thursday, August 13 — the Texas leg of his first headline North American run. The timing matters: he arrives here on the back of a Kanye West feature, a Young Thug co-sign, and a 23-track third album, Emotions, that dropped five weeks after Bully hit streaming.
About Nine Vicious
Trevon Echols has been making music since 2015, starting as Lil Trey out of Athens, Georgia, working in the trap and plugg scenes before he rebranded as Nine Vicious in 2022. The name is stitched from two different lineages: Izaya Tiji’s track “9” and punk bassist Sid Vicious. That crossing of reference points — southern underground trap and punk iconography — is accurate to his aesthetic. He makes cloud-rap and underground trap with androgynous visual presentation, melodic introspection threaded through aggressive production.
He found his first real audience on SoundCloud with “I Love You” and “Ill Nva,” then broke through with “U Fancy?” — a flip of Drake’s “Fancy” that earned a public co-sign from Young Thug and moved well past the underground circuit. His label is Studio Addicts / Create Music Group; he came up in the YSL orbit.
The catalyst for 2026 was Kanye West’s Bully (March 28). Nine Vicious contributed background vocals on two tracks — “Mama’s Favorite” and “This a Must” — then moved directly into the Emotions rollout, having already dropped the prelude EP B4EM in January. Emotions is a 23-track record with a deliberate arc: the first half runs aggressive — “Clock It,” “Fashion Killa,” “Amazing” — and the back half opens into something quieter and more exposed. “Sunset Hill” with Kacy Hill is where that range is clearest. FinallyOnline called it his most complete project to date, and the structural argument holds.
About the Venue
The Echo Lounge & Music Hall opened in 2022 in Dallas’s Design District — a Live Nation venue with 25,000 square feet of flexible space and a capacity of 1,000. The room operates cashless and has become a reliable stop for touring acts at exactly this stage of their trajectory in the Dallas–Fort Worth market.
Tickets
“NINE VICIOUS – A TOUR” runs July through August 2026. European dates included splash! Festival in Germany and Melkweg in Amsterdam before the US run began. The Dallas date falls one night after Houston — Nine Vicious plays House of Blues there on August 12. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Doors at 7:00 PM.