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List of hip hop festivals
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Related genres	Hip hop music, funk, disco, dub, rhythm and blues, reggae, dancehall, toasting, performance poetry, neo soul, big beat, trap
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The following is an incomplete list of hip hop festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on hip hop music or other elements of hip hop culture. Hip hop music, also called hip-hop,^[1]^[2] rap music,^[2]^[3]^[4] or hip-hop music,^[2]^[5] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.^[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing.^[6]^[7]^[8] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.^[9]^[10]

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The following is an incomplete list of both ongoing and defunct festivals.
Festival name	Location	Attendance	Years	Description
Essence Music Festival	New Orleans, Louisiana	550000	1994-present	Soul, R&B, and hip hop music
Urban Beach Week	Miami, Florida	400000	1990-present	Hip hop cultural events held throughout city
Outside Lands Festival	San Francisco, California	200000	2008-present
Pemberton Festival	Pemberton, British Columbia	180000	2008-present
Openair Frauenfeld	Frauenfeld, Thurgau	170000	1985-present	Largest Hip Hop Openair in Europe
Governors Ball Festival	New York City, New York	150000	2011-present
Made in America	Philadelphia, Philadelphia	140000	2012-present
Paris Hip Hop Festival	Paris, Île-de-France	130000	2005-present
Bonnaroo Music Festival	Manchester, Tennessee	80000	2002-present
Couleur Café	City of Brussels, Brussels	72000	1990-present
Afropunk Festival	Brooklyn, New York	70000	2005-present
Parklife	Prestwich, Manchester	70000	2010-present
Summer Jam	East Rutherford, New Jersey	50000	1994-present	Hip hop music festival
Lovebox	London, London	50000	2002-present
Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival	Los Angeles, CA		2007-present
Southside	Tuttlingen, Baden-Württemberg	40000	1999-present
Chiemsee Summer	Chiemsee, Bavaria	35000	1995-present
Big Day Out	Australia	31000	1992-2014	Pop festival with hip hop focus
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival	Brooklyn, New York	30000	2005-present
Soundset Music Festival	Minnesota	30000	2008-present
Hip Hop Kemp	Hradec Králové	20000	2001-present
Rock the Bells	United States	17000	2004-2013	Hip hop music
Outlook Festival	Pula, Istria	15000	2008-present
Forbidden Fruit Festival	Dublin, Leinster	14000	2010-present
Lyricist Lounge	New York City, New York / Miami, Florida	8000	1991-present	Showcase of music and graffiti artists
Scribble Jam	Cincinnati, Ohio	7000	1996-2008
Paid Dues	United States	5000	2006-present
Freaknik	Atlanta, Georgia		1982-2010	Unofficial cultural event banned in 2010
DMC World DJ Championships	Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia		1985-present	Ongoing DJ contest
Festival Internacional de Hip Hop - FIH2	Curitiba, Paraná		2001
Waga Hip Hop Festival	Ouagadougou, Kadiogo		1997-present
Miami Hip Hop Fest '98	Miami, Florida		1998	Urban Music Hip Hop/Rap concert
B-Boy Park	Tokyo, Kant?		1999-present	Culture festival with dance, etc.
Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival	Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia		2003-present
Jingle Jam	Hartford, Connecticut		2004-2008
Breakin' Convention	London, London		2004-present
Hip Hop goes Theatre	Salzburg, Salzburg		2004-present	An international hip hop theater festival
Trinity International Hip Hop Festival	Hartford, Connecticut		2006-present
Young London into Music	London, London		2009-present
Urban Street Jam	California		2010-present
No Major, No Problem^[11]	Los Angeles, California		2015
Supafest			2010-2012
Fresh Island Festival	Novalja, Lika-Senj		2011-present
ENCORE FESTIVAL	Amsterdam		2014-present	HipHop & R&B
Appelsap	Amsterdam
Vunzige Deuntjes Festival	Amsterdam
Classic R&B and HipHop	Hengelo
WOO HAH!	Tilburg, The Netherlands	15000	2004-present
I Love HipHop Festival	The Hague

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References

^ Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from merriam-webster.com: A subculture especially of inner-city youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Encyclopædia Britannica article on rap, retrieved from britannica.com: Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted ("rapped") to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling (music and sounds extracted from other recordings), is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying (turntable manipulation), graffiti painting, and break dancing.
^ AllMusic article for rap, retrieved from AllMusic.com
^ Harvard Dictionary of Music article for rap, retrieved from CredoReference
^ Encyclopædia Britannica article on hip-hop, retrieved from britannica.com: Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form.
^ Kugelberg, Johan (2007). Born in the Bronx. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7893-1540-3.
^ Brown, Lauren (February 18, 2009). "Hip to the Game - Dance World vs. Music Industry, The Battle for Hip Hop's Legacy". Movmnt Magazine. Retrieved .
^ Chang, Jeff (2005). Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-312-30143-X.
^ Harvard Dictionary of Music article for hip hop, retrieved from Google Books: While often used to refer to rap music, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of entire subculture
^ AllMusic article for Hip-hop/Urban, retrieved from AllMusic.com: Hip-Hop is the catch-all term for rap and the culture it spawned. Archived March 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Sherriffe, Mariah. ""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood". Sundial.

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[Merriam-Webster-hip-hop-1] Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from merriam-webster.com: A subculture especially of inner-city youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

[britannica-rap-2] Encyclopædia Britannica article on rap, retrieved from britannica.com: Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted ("rapped") to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling (music and sounds extracted from other recordings), is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying (turntable manipulation), graffiti painting, and break dancing.

[AllMusic-rap-3] AllMusic article for rap, retrieved from AllMusic.com

[4] Harvard Dictionary of Music article for rap, retrieved from CredoReference

[britannica-hip-hop-5] Encyclopædia Britannica article on hip-hop, retrieved from britannica.com: Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and '90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form.

[6] Kugelberg, Johan (2007). Born in the Bronx. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7893-1540-3.

[7] Brown, Lauren (February 18, 2009). "Hip to the Game - Dance World vs. Music Industry, The Battle for Hip Hop's Legacy". Movmnt Magazine. Retrieved .

[8] Chang, Jeff (2005). Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-312-30143-X.

[9] Harvard Dictionary of Music article for hip hop, retrieved from Google Books: While often used to refer to rap music, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of entire subculture

[10] AllMusic article for Hip-hop/Urban, retrieved from AllMusic.com: Hip-Hop is the catch-all term for rap and the culture it spawned. Archived March 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.

[11] Sherriffe, Mariah. ""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood". Sundial.

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