With weekend one of Coachella in the rear view window, it’s time to get excited for Miami’s Rolling Loud. With the best festival lineup in the country last year, expectations for Rolling Loud 2018 were very high (no pun intended). Lucky for music fans in Florida and rap fans around the world, Rolling Loud delivered with an epic 2018 lineup that looks to be even better than 2017.
With anticipated performances from J. Cole, Cardi B, Young Thug, Post Malone, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Russ, N.E.R.D and many more, you can’t go wrong with whatever performances you catch over the weekend.
If you’ve been living under a rock, Rolling Loud will take place from May 11-13 at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. Fans can visit the festival’s official website for more information!
Hit the jump and check out our list of our ten most anticipated performances for Rolling Loud 2018.
Returning to Chicago’s Grant Park from August 2nd to the 5th, Lollapalooza is set to deliver another summer of great live music for its Windy City fans. And moments ago the top tier festival revealed its full 2018 lineup, just a day after 4-day passes went on sale.
1. The Return of Travis Scott
Travis Scott performs at Lollapalooza 2015 (Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration)
After arriving late to the festival grounds for his Lollapalooza performance in 2015, rapper Travis Scott tried to make up for lost time by delivering the wildest festival performance imaginable. Too wild for the taste of some, as Travis Scott was arrested only a few minutes into his set after encouraging his fans to climb over security barricades and storm the stage. It’s common for performances to get cut short by storms, but not of this kind. Although it was Lolla that decided to pull the plug on his 2015 performance, all is forgiven and both parties will try again this August. Needless to say, it will be a performance that you won’t want to miss.
2. Bruno Mars, But No Cardi B
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Lollapalooza will be dripping in finesse this year, as Bruno Mars is set to deliver a headlining Lolla performance that Chicago may talk about for years. The booking was unexpected, but made sense, as there was no Chicago date for Bruno Mars’ summer tour. However Bruno’s tour-mate, Cardi B, was heavily rumored to perform at Lolla this year, so it was a surprise when her name didn’t appear on the lineup poster this morning. Does this all but confirm those pregnancy rumors? We think so! Either way, Bruno will definitely bring some 24K Magic to Grant Park this summer.
3. No Female Headliners
Lana Del Rey headlines Lollapalooza 2016 (Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration)
While fans were instantly blown away by the top to bottom quality of this year’s lineup, many fan noticed that the festival booked no female headliners this year. From Lorde’s rainy performance last year, to Lana Del Rey’s headlining set in 2016 and more, female headliners have historically killed it at the Chicago festival. In fact, a female artist does not appear on the lineup poster until the 4th line.
And while this critique is certainly accurate, that is not to say that Lollapalooza isn’t full of amazing female performers. Bebe Rexha, St. Vincent, CHVRCHES, Dua Lipa, Jessie Reyez, Daya, Kali Uchis and Jessie Ware are just a few of the women artists who we can’t wait to see at Lolla this summer.
4. Camila Cabello!
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Camila Cabello is killing it right now, so we are so excited to see her bless the stage at Lolla this summer. But her booking is perhaps the most surprising, for a number of reasons. Music festivals are normally light when it comes to Top 40 pop performers, leaving fans to catch their performances on tour or perhaps an iHeartRadio event. Not only that, but Camila is already scheduled to perform three times in the Windy City, twice as a supporting act for Taylor Swift’s Chicago stops at Soldier Field and once for her headlining tour. Lolla usually frowns on their artists performing in the city (or within 100 miles) around the summertime, but I guess for Camila Cabello they had to make an exception! Chicago will never be the same.
5. You Can’t Rain on Lil Uzi Vert’s Parade
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Lil Uzi Vert was just at Lollapalooza in 2017, however heavy rain and lighting caused the festival to come to a close early, leaving fans of Lil Uzi Vert, Lorde and more left hanging. So let’s hope the festival gods bless fans with calm conditions when Lil Uzi returns to Lolla this year. Just a few months ago, Lil Uzi gave an awesome performance at the United Center for the WGCI Big Jam, so you can expect the same energy for his return to Chicago.
Rappers G-Eazy and Lil Uzi Vert will combine forces with Ty Dolla $ign and more for The Endless Summer Tour this year.
Currently on his Beautiful & Damned Tour, G-Eazy’s summer tour (which shares a name with his 2016 summer tour with Logic) will kick off on July 20th in Washington, and will make stops in Irvine, Chicago, Dallas, New York and many more, until things come to a close on September 8th in West Palm Beach.
Fans can visit Ticketmaster.com for more information, and don’t miss out because pre-sale tickets are schedule to begin today!
Check out the dates and locations for The Endless Summer Tour below.
WGCI’s Big Jam returned for another great year of music at the sold-out United Center, bringing the biggest names in rap and R&B to the Windy City to end 2017 in the best way possible.
From Chicago natives like G Herbo and Phor kicking the show off, to heavyweights like Chris Brown and Rick Ross closing things out, and of course a wild and energetic performance from Lil Uzi Vert, fans in Chicago got their money’s worth last night.
Year after year, WGCI not only fills the airwaves with the best names rap has to offer, but they bring the talent directly to Chicago, and last night was evidence of that.
Check out photos from last night’s show stopping Big Jam below!
Despite a couple devastating cancelations of his U.S. festival performances this month (Sasquatch! and Hangout), Frank Ocean fans everywhere can celebrate Ocean’s new contributions with Lil Uzi Vert and Quavo, on A$AP Rocky’s new track ‘RAF’. Debuting on Ocean’s Blonded Radio show on “Beats 1”, Frank shared two versions of the track.
Not only is Ocean spoiling fans with more tracks, after fans had to patiently wait years for new music from the Odd Future singer, but ‘RAF’ features a rapping Frank Ocean, whose raps often get overlooked for his singing.
While 2017 marked the third year for Miami’s Rolling Loud music festival, this was the first year that the festival really skyrocketed to its elite status. Rivaling lineups from top tier festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, Rolling Loud put together arguably the greatest rap and hip-hop lineup in the history of music festivals. With top names in rap like Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, Migos and Travis Scott and emerging stars like Jazz Cartier, XXXTentacion, 21 Savage and more, everyone in attendance this past weekend saw 3-days of amazing performances that they will not soon forget.
Hit the jump and check out our list of our 10 Favorite Moments from Rolling Loud 2017!
After 3 days and dozens and dozens of memorable performances from some of the biggest superstars and emerging names in rap music, Future and Travis Scott and Future closed down a great weekend for Rolling Loud‘s third year in Miami.
Perhaps the best night of the weekend, La Flame and Future were in great company as the Migos, Post Malone, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Amine, Blackbear, Robb Banks, Topaz Jonez and many others delivered great performances throughout the day.
Check out our photos below, of what the third and final day of Rolling Loud had to offer this year. Fans in Miami witnessed perhaps the best rap festival in the history of music this weekend.
Earlier today, Rose Presents and Rhymesayers Entertainment have announced the lineup for the big 10th Anniversary of the Soundset Festival. Headlining the Minnesota festival this year will be GOOD Music’s Travis Scott and Minnesota’s own, Travis Scott. Ms. Lauryn Hill is also scheduled to make a very special performance for Soundset.
Also performing at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on Sunday, May 28th will be Gucci Mane, Pusha T, T.I., Mac Miller, Kevin Gates, Lil Uzi Vert, DRAM, Ty Dolla $ign, the stand4rd (Allan Kingdom, Spooky Black & more), Talib Kweli, Brother Ali, Dave East and many others.
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