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, also called rap music,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 is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhymin speech that is chanted.
Festivals
+The following is an incomplete list of both ongoing and defunct festivals. Festival name Location Attendance Years Beach, Please! FestivalCostinești, Romania2600002022 - PresentRolling LoudUnited States; Australia; Canada; The Netherlands; Portugal; Thailand; Germany; Austria;2550002015 - Present Essence Music Festival New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 550000 1994–present Les Ardentes Festival Liege, Belgium 245000 2006–present Cancun Jumpoff Cancun, Mexico 12000 2003–present Urban Beach Week Miami, Florida, United States 400000 1990–present Outside Lands Festival 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 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 20000 2002–present Rock the Bells United States 17000 2004–2013Roots PicnicPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States700002008-present Outlook Festival Pula, Croatia 15000 2008–present Lyricist Lounge New York City, New York/Miami, Florida, U.S. 8000 1991–present Scribble Jam Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 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 Once Upon a Time in LA Los Angeles, United States 2000 2021-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 Los Angeles, California, United States 2015 Dooinit 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
See also
Hip-hop OVO Fest by Drake Portland Hip Hop Week
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
References