List of hip hop festivals
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The following is an incomplete list of hip hop festivals, which encapsulates
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
| Festival name | Location | Attendance | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Loud | United States; Australia; Canada; The Netherlands; Portugal; Thailand; Germany | 255000 | 2015 - Present |
| Essence Music Festival | New Orleans, Louisiana , United States
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550000 | 1994–present |
| Cancun Jumpoff | Cancun, Mexico
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12000 | 2003–present |
| Urban Beach Week | Miami, Florida , United States
|
400000 | 1990–present |
Outside Lands Festival
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San Francisco, California , United States
|
200000 | 2008–present |
| SF International HipHop DanceFest | San Francisco, California , United States
|
~4000 | 1999–present |
| Longitude Festival | Dublin, Ireland | 40000 | 2013–present |
| Pemberton Festival | Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada | 180000 | 2008–present |
| Royal Arena Festival | Orpund, Bern, Switzerland | 20000 | 1999–present |
| Openair Frauenfeld | Frauenfeld, Switzerland | 170000 | 1985–present |
| Governors Ball Festival | New York City, New York , United States
|
150000 | 2011–present |
Made in America
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States
|
140000 | 2012–present |
| Bonnaroo Music Festival | Manchester, Tennessee, United States | 80000 | 2002–present |
| Couleur Café | Brussels, Belgium | 72000 | 1990–present |
| Afropunk Festival | New York City, New York , United States
|
70000 | 2005–present |
| Blockfest | Tampere, Finland | 10000 | 2005–present |
| Parklife | Prestwich, United Kingdom | 70000 | 2010–present |
| Dour Festival | Dour, Belgium | 225000 | 1988–present |
| 2x2 Hip Hop Festival | Columbus, Ohio, United States | 2015–present | |
| Summer Jam | East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States | 50000 | 1994–present |
| Lovebox | London, United Kingdom | 50000 | 2002–present |
| Garorock Festival (pop, rock, electro and techno) | Marmande, France | 160000 | 1997–present |
| #Plugfest | Silverston, South Africa | 45000 | 2018–present |
| Southside | Tuttlingen, Germany | 40000 | 1999–present |
| Big Day Out | Australia | 31000 | 1992–2014 |
| The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival | New York City, New York , United States
|
30000 | 2005–present |
| Soundset Music Festival | Minnesota, United States | 30000 | 2008–present |
Hip Hop Kemp
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Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | 20000 | 2002–present |
| Rock the Bells | United States | 17000 | 2004–2013 |
| Roots Picnic | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States
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70000 | 2008-present |
| Outlook Festival | Pula, Croatia | 15000 | 2008–present |
| Lyricist Lounge | Miami, Florida , U.S.
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8000 | 1991–present |
| Scribble Jam | Cincinnati, Ohio , United States
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7000 | 1996–2008 |
| Paid Dues | United States | 5000 | 2006–2013 |
| Freaknik | Atlanta, Georgia
|
1982–2010 | |
| DMC World DJ Championships | Thessaloniki, Greece | 1985–present | |
| Waga Hip Hop Festival | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 1997–present | |
| Hiphopplaya Festival | Seoul, South Korea | 25000 | 2016–present |
| Coast 2 Coast Music Conference | Miami, Florida , United States
|
1000 | 2008–present |
| B-Boy Park | Tokyo, Japan | 1999–present | |
| Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival | Thessaloniki, Greece | 2003–present | |
| Jingle Jam | Hartford, Connecticut, United States | 2004–2008 | |
| Breakin' Convention | London, United Kingdom | 2004–present | |
| Hip Hop goes Theatre | Salzburg, Austria | 2004–present | |
| Trinity International Hip Hop Festival | Hartford, Connecticut, United States | 2006–present | |
| Young London into Music | London, United Kingdom | 2009–present | |
| Urban Street Jam | Irvine, California, United States | 2010–present | |
| No Major, No Problem[6] | Los Angeles, California , United States
|
2015 | |
| Dooinit[7] | Rennes, France | 2010–present | |
| Supafest | Australia | 2010–2012 | |
| Fresh Island Festival | Novalja, Croatia | 2011–present | |
| Northern Touch Music Festival | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
|
2017–present | |
| A3C | Atlanta, Georgia , United States
|
2005–present | |
| WooHah | Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands | 32500 | 2014–present |
Gallery
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hip hop music festivals.
- Hip hop music
- OVO Fest by Drake
Related lists
The following lists have some or total overlap:
- Czech hip hop#Czech hip hop festivals
- List of music festivals
- List of jazz festivals
- List of reggae festivals
- List of electronic music festivals
Related categories
Music festivals- Blues festivals
- Jazz festivals
- Electronic music festivals
- Reggae festivals
- Hip hop festivals
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
- ^ "Blockfest 2016". Visit Tampere (in Finnish). Visit Tampere Matkailuneuvonta. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- YLE(in Finnish). 2 July 2019. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
- ^ Sherriffe, Mariah. ""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood". Sundial.
- ^ https://dooinit-festival.com/
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