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List of Hip Hop Festivals
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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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Location | Worldwide |
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Related events | Concert tour, music festival, jazz festivals, electronic music festivals, reggae festivals, blues festivals, block party |
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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 rap music,[1][2][3] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[1]
Festivals
The following is an incomplete list of both ongoing and defunct festivals.
Festival name
|
Country
|
Location
|
Attendance
|
Years
|
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Essence Music Festival |
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New Orleans, Louisiana |
550000 |
-
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Cancun Jumpoff |
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Cancun, [Maxico]] |
12000 |
2003-present
|
Urban Beach Week |
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Miami, Florida |
400000 |
1990-present
|
Outside Lands Festival
|
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San Francisco, California
|
200000
|
2008-present
|
SF International HipHop DanceFest
|
|
San Francisco, California
|
~4000
|
1999-present
|
Longitude Festival |
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Dublin, Ireland |
40000 |
2013-present
|
Pemberton Festival
|
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Pemberton, British Columbia
|
180000
|
2008-present
|
Royal Arena Festival
|
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Orpund, Bern
|
20000
|
1999-present
|
Openair Frauenfeld |
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Frauenfeld, Thurgau |
170000 |
1985-present
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Governors Ball Festival
|
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New York City, New York
|
150000
|
2011-present
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Made in America
|
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
140000
|
2012-present
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Bonnaroo Music Festival
|
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Manchester, Tennessee
|
80000
|
2002-present
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Couleur Café
|
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City of Brussels, Belgium
|
72000
|
1990-present
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Afropunk Festival
|
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New York City, New York
|
70000
|
2005-present
|
Blockfest
|
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Helsinki, Finland
|
10000
|
2005-present
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Parklife
|
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Prestwich, Manchester
|
70000
|
2010-present
|
Dour Festival
|
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Dour, Belgium
|
225000
|
1988-present
|
2x2 Hip Hop Festival
|
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Columbus, Ohio
|
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2015-present
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Summer Jam
|
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East Rutherford, New Jersey
|
50000
|
1994-present
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Lovebox
|
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London, London
|
50000
|
2002-present
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Garorock Festival
|
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Marmande, France
|
160000
|
1997-present
|
#Plugfest
|
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Silverton, Pretoria
|
45000
|
2018-present
|
Southside
|
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Tuttlingen, Baden-Württemberg
|
40000
|
1999-present
|
Big Day Out
|
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Australia
|
31000
|
1992-2014
|
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
|
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New York City, New York
|
30000
|
2005-present
|
Soundset Music Festival
|
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Minnesota
|
30000
|
2008-present
|
Hip Hop Kemp
|
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Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
|
20000
|
2002-present
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Rock the Bells
|
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United States
|
17000
|
2004-2013
|
Outlook Festival
|
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Pula, Istria
|
15000
|
2008-present
|
Lyricist Lounge |
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New York City, New York /
Miami, Florida
|
8000 |
1991-present
|
Scribble Jam
|
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Cincinnati, Ohio
|
7000
|
1996-2008
|
Paid Dues
|
|
United States
|
5000
|
2006-2013
|
Freaknik |
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Atlanta, Georgia |
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1982-2010
|
DMC World DJ Championships |
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Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia |
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1985-present
|
Waga Hip Hop Festival |
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Ouagadougou, Kadiogo
|
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1997-present
|
Hiphopplaya Festival |
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Seoul, South Korea
|
25000 |
2016-present
|
Coast 2 Coast Music Conference
|
|
Miami, Florida
|
1000
|
2008-present
|
B-Boy Park |
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Tokyo, Kant?
|
|
1999-present
|
Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival |
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Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia |
|
2003-present
|
Jingle Jam |
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Hartford, Connecticut |
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2004-2008
|
Breakin' Convention |
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London, United Kingdom |
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2004-present
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Hip Hop goes Theatre |
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Salzburg, Salzburg |
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2004-present
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Trinity International Hip Hop Festival |
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Hartford, Connecticut |
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2006-present
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Young London into Music |
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London, United Kingdom |
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2009-present
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Urban Street Jam |
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California |
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2010-present
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No Major, No Problem[4] |
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Los Angeles, California |
|
2015
|
Supafest |
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Australia
|
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2010-2012
|
Fresh Island Festival |
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Novalja, Lika-Senj |
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2011-present
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Northern Touch Music Festival
|
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
|
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2017-present
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A3C
|
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Atlanta, Georgia
|
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2005-present
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WooHah
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Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
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32500
|
2014-present
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References
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Sherriffe, Mariah. ""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood". Sundial.