Rolling Loud, the global touring hip-hop music festival, is making its mighty return to the West Coast, this time settling into a new home at Hollywood Park in Inglewood March 3-5.
Future, Playboi Carti and Travis Scott will headline the three-day festival with a special guest set from Lil Wayne on its closing night. The event will also feature performances from both mainstream and up-and-coming acts like Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert, Moneybagg Yo, 2 Chainz, Shenseea, OhGeesy, Rubi Rose and Tyga throughout the long weekend. In addition, leading ladies of the genre including Ice Spice, Saweetie, Bktherula and Kamaiyah will also take over the stages.
Coming back from the pandemic-forced shutdowns, Rolling Loud has brought events to New York, Miami, Portugal and Toronto, but hasn’t taken place in the Los Angeles area since it took over Banc of California Stadium (now BMO Stadium) in 2019. The fest also marks Scott’s first headlining performance in the U.S. since the deadly crowd surge at his 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas. He was also set to play at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, but quickly dropped off the bill following the incident.
With Rolling Loud relocating to Hollywood Park, which sits adjacent to SoFi Stadium, it will be the first major music festival held on those redeveloped grounds, making it a milestone moment for the city and neighboring communities that spawned numerous hip-hop icons through the decades including Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle.
“When you look at the connection that Hollywood Park and SoFi Stadium have with the community and the rich hip-hop history in Inglewood already, we saw it as the perfect marriage,” Adolfo Romero, vice president of programming at Hollywood Park said during a recent phone interview. “It’s going to build that bridge of community and hip-hop, and we can’t wait to see that grow with Rolling Loud.”
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