This summer season Rhyme Fest will host its eleventh annual celebration on the iconic LA Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, August 17, 2024. This main milestone occasion can be headlined by the incomparable Minnesota hip hop duo Ambiance. Composed of Slug (rapper) and Ant (DJ/producer), Ambiance has crafted a legacy that’s embedded within the talisman of underground hip-hop over the course of their 27- yr profession. Recognized for his or her susceptible lyrics, genre-pushing manufacturing, and everyman sensibilities, these quiet titans have launched 13 beloved initiatives and dozens of traditional tracks championed by the tradition worldwide. Rhyme Fest is ecstatic to deliver Ambiance’s fascinating stage present to the Los Angeles hip hop neighborhood. Tickets out there solely on Ticketmaster!
Additionally commanding this yr’s pageant, Rhyme Fest is proud to announce performances by Dilated Peoples, Dwelling Legends, Visionaries, Freestyle Fellowship, Funkdoobiest, Mission Blowed’s thirtieth Anniversary Efficiency, Sage Francis, The Form Shifters, The LA Symphony twenty fifth Anniversary Efficiency, Planet Asia, Reverie, DJ QBert, Demrick & Dizzy Wright, DJ Nu-Mark (of J5), DJ Talents, A-F-R-O & 60East, Coyote, Quantity 10, Self Provoked, Converse, and several other further artists affectionately thought-about to be a part of the “Rhyme Fest Universe.”
“We’re constructing a Rhyme Fest Universe,” says founder Rafael “Scooby” Dos Santos. “We now have our characters which are a part of our universe which are at all times featured at our occasions. Some are in home DJs and a few are MCs that we take into account part of the Rhyme Fest household. Rhyme Fest is a gathering for the hip hop heads so it’s essential to have the folks that helped us construct Rhyme Fest from the very starting to nonetheless be part of it and be represented on the lineup.”
About Rhyme Fest
This yr’s Rhyme Fest represents a big step ahead for the seminal hip hop pageant. The primary ever Rhyme Fest was held on November 15, 2013 on the 500-seat Ukraine Cultural Heart in Hollywood and was headlined by KRS-One and The Visionaries. This yr Rhyme Fest expects 10,000 hip hop heads to have fun all parts of the tradition within the LA Memorial Coliseum. So together with the timeless tracks, brolic beats, and breathtaking performances which have grow to be synonymous with the Rhyme Fest model, graffiti, break dancing, and DJing are positioned on a pedestal as nicely.
“The entire objective of Rhyme Fest is to include all parts of hip hop and to domesticate and develop the hip hop neighborhood,” Dos Santos says. “This yr will boast a graffiti village space the place 30 artists will create stay work, for instance. These are artists that began within the graffiti scene in Los Angeles—graf writers from the Nineteen Eighties, early Nineties, late Nineties all the best way up till right now. In addition to the music this yr, one other dope ingredient which you can anticipate at Rhyme Fest is the entire graffiti space and plenty of artwork.”
