Jay Park’s Los Angeles Tour Finale Gives Fans Plenty to Remember
When you’ve been in the game as long as Jay Park has, it’s no surprise you’ve built a loyal audience—or that you can keep them on their feet for nearly three hours. That was the case in Los Angeles, where Park wrapped up the North American leg of his 2026 Serenades & Body Rolls tour with plenty of fan favorites and a few guests who made the send-off feel particularly special.
Opening the show was LNGSHOT, the four-member K-pop boy group that debuted this January under Park’s label, MORE VISION. His backing gave them a considerable head start in their career, while an R&B and hip-hop approach influenced by his artistic direction has helped them develop a sound that feels distinctive, enticing, and fun.
I first caught LNGSHOT a few weeks ago during their set at the Head in the Clouds Festival, where they were able to shine by themselves without their mentor. On this tour, they opened the setlist with some of their most popular songs, including “Saucin’,” “Backseat,” “Moonwalkin,” “FaceTime,” and “Never Let Go.” Naturally, it was an electrifying start to the show and gave them the attention they needed before Park came on stage.
PHOTO CREDIT: MORE VISIONWith dramatic lighting filling the Shrine Expo Hall, the show felt more like a rave than a typical K-pop concert—an atmosphere that felt fitting for Korean-American artist Jay Park, given rave culture’s presence in Asian American nightlife. Most attendees were in the venue’s general admission standing area, and with nowhere to rest my legs, I was almost worried about making it through a concert that lasted nearly three hours. Park, however, kept the energy high with a set drawn mostly from his own catalog. Once he got going, sitting down never crossed my mind.
With classics like “Drive,” “Yesterday,” “All I Wanna Do,” and “Solo” in the setlist, longtime Jay Park fans had a good chance of hearing most, if not all, of their favorites. He even worked in a little humor during “Need To Know,” acknowledging its viral meme status and giving the crowd another moment of laughter and levity.
The pacing helped, too. Park kept his banter brief and to the point, moving into the next song before conversations could drag. That brisk tempo left me with very little time to think about fatigue. He also worked in a few covers, including the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” and Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” Before the Jackson cover, Park spoke about his admiration for the late performer, describing him as one of his biggest inspirations. LNGSHOT later rejoined him for their collaborations, including “Gukbbong,” “Run It Up,” “No Hi, No Hey,” and “Yeah! Yeah!” and their return offered a welcome change of pace after his run of back-to-back solo songs.
If you’ve been keeping up with the tour at previous stops on social media, you may have noticed that he brought in special local guests to make each show unique. In San Francisco, rapper P-Lo joined him, while rapper MC Jin appeared at the Toronto stop, with Lil Mosey in Seattle.
Los Angeles had a particularly strong lineup. Rising R&B artist Sunkis performed “Top Tier” and “Baby Guai,” while LA K-Town’s finest, Dumbfoundead, made an appearance with “MiJangwon” and “Hyung.” The last time I watched Dumbfoundead perform was all the way back in 2018 on his Yikes! Tour, so seeing him again was a personal highlight, especially after following his more recent podcasting and content creation.
Of course, the crowd had another request for Park throughout the night: take off the shirt. The calls seemed to account for half the audience interactions, with Park jokingly responding, “Now’s not the time.” He finally granted their wishes toward the end of the show during the risqué “McNasty” and “Mommae,” both of which really got the audience going.
To cap the night off during the encore, Park brought out his most surprising guest, Prohgress of Far East Movement. No doubt that this was the most exciting guest so far, as many Jay Park fans likely grew up listening to the group too. Even if they didn’t, songs like “Like a G6” and “Rocketeer” were inescapable in the early 2010s—of course, those two were the songs that Prohgress performed. And with Los Angeles being such an important center of Asian American culture, hearing those hits from one of its best-known groups felt like the perfect send-off for the tour’s North American leg.
With a whopping 47 tracks across the evening, there’s far more to the setlist than I could cover. Remarkably, though, the nearly three-hour show went by much faster than I expected, and I enjoyed every moment. Almost two decades into his career, Park still knows how to show an audience a good time.
