Isaiah Rashad’s ‘awful’ press tour to make a stop in his hometown of Chattanooga

Four years after being gifted a key to the city, Chattanooga’s preeminent hip-hop success story will return to his hometown this weekend.

A meet and greet for Isaiah Rashad will be held Saturday afternoon at a local vinyl store in Chattanooga’s Southside neighborhood. Rashad’s first public appearance in Chattanooga since 2022 will be spent signing autographs and promoting his latest record, “IT’S BEEN AWFUL,” which was released last month and has since peaked at No. 18 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

“I don’t know how it’s going to work, honestly. We’ll have them lining up there,” record store owner Marlo White said, pointing out the door of his record shop and toward the sidewalk along Market Street. “We’ll probably set Isaiah up right here in the middle of the store.”

In addition to Rashad’s appearance, local DJ Shoey Russell will fill the room with music from the start of the event until 3 p.m.