Hip-Hop festivals

Hip-Hop festivals in 2026

Every bill still ahead of you with real Hip-Hop on it, deepest first. A festival needs at least 2 Hip-Hop acts to be here, so one stray booking on a bill about something else does not count.

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  Camp Flog Gnaw 2026November 14–15, 2026 · Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA19 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Warped Tour Orlando 2026November 14–15, 2026 · Camping World Stadium Campus, Orlando, FL12 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Aftershock 2026October 1–4, 2026 · Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA10 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Lost Lands 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Legend Valley, Thornville, OH8 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Louder Than Life 2026September 17–20, 2026 · Highland Festival Grounds, Louisville, KY7 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Nocturnal Wonderland 2026September 19–20, 2026 · Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA6 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Riot Fest 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Douglass Park, Chicago, IL6 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  BOO Seattle 2026October 30–31, 2026 · WAMU Theater, Seattle, WA5 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  III Points 2026October 16–17, 2026 · Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL4 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Austin City Limits 2026October 2–11, 2026 · Zilker Park, Austin, TX3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Beyond The Valley 2026December 28 – January 1, 2027 · Lardner Park, Lardner, VIC, Australia3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Breakaway Carolina 2026September 25–26, 2026 · zMAX Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  EDC Orlando 2026November 6–8, 2026 · Tinker Field, Orlando, FL3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Escape Halloween 2026October 30–31, 2026 · NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Lights All Night 2026December 30–31, 2026 · Fair Park, Dallas, TX3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Lollapalooza India 2027January 23–24, 2027 · Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai, India3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Oceans Calling 2026September 25–27, 2026 · Ocean City Boardwalk, MD3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Portola 2026September 26–27, 2026 · Pier 80, San Francisco, CA3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Shaky Knees 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA3 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Corona Capital 2026November 20–22, 2026 · Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico2 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Decadence Colorado 2026December 30–31, 2026 · Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO2 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Good Things 2026December 4–6, 2026 · Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, Australia2 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →
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  Hulaween 2026October 22–25, 2026 · Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL2 Hip-Hop acts on the bill →

Who carries Hip-Hop this season

All 236 acts we have tagged Hip-Hop, sorted six ways. The lists disagree with each other, and the names they disagree about are usually the ones worth hearing.

Booked the most in 2026

The Hip-Hop acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

1. 12hollis8Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience — icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
2. 2Clipse8Pusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
3. 3Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
4. 4Fakemink6UK underground rap's internet-native riser — lo-fi menace and offhand melody built for the timeline, low-lit tracks that travel by repost.
5. 5LYNY6Textural, psychedelic bass music — heavy without being blunt about it.
6. 6P.O.D.6'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' — San Diego's nu-metal survivors, positivity intact through every scene cycle.
7. 7Ecca Vandal5Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
8. 8ISOxo5Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes — bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
9. 9Skepta5Grime's global ambassador — Konnichiwa-era bars and a DJ's instincts, London energy at any scale, 'Shutdown' still a detonation.
10. 10Tyler, The Creator5Odd Future's ringleader turned auteur — every record a full costume change, every tour a proper production, Grammy-decorated and still restless.

Most upcoming bookings

Everything still ahead of us, for anyone with festivals left on the calendar.

1. 1Twenty One Pilots5Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 2Limp Bizkit4Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
3. 3LYNY4Textural, psychedelic bass music — heavy without being blunt about it.
4. 4P.O.D.4'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' — San Diego's nu-metal survivors, positivity intact through every scene cycle.
5. 5TroyBoi4UK producer whose rhythmically intricate trap sounds like nobody else's — 'Do You?' swagger with global percussion baked in.
6. 6Codefendants3Fat Mike's genre-agnostic side project — punk, rap, and folk stitched into something genuinely odd, with Ceschi's rapid-fire verses at the center.
7. 7Doobie3Nashville rapper with a rock streak and a fiercely independent release history — melodic grit built entirely outside the label system.
8. 8Insane Clown Posse3The Faygo flies at sundown — whoop whoop, and genuinely one of music's strangest, most loyal communities gathered in one place.
9. 9Jutes3Toronto artist who moved from rap features into full pop-punk, and sounds more at home there — emo-rap roots showing through the power chords.
10. 10Vince Staples3Long Beach rapper with a comedian's timing and the bleakest source material — never once sentimental, and funnier live than most comics.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

1. 1Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 2Limp Bizkit5Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
3. 3Tyler, The Creator5Odd Future's ringleader turned auteur — every record a full costume change, every tour a proper production, Grammy-decorated and still restless.
4. 4DJ Snake3Paris-born hit machine — 'Turn Down for What' to 'Taki Taki', festival main stages are his natural habitat.
5. 5A$AP Rocky2Harlem's most style-conscious rapper, always a couple of years ahead of the room — cloud-rap haze, chopped-and-screwed detours, and high-fashion swagger folded into records that set trends instead of chasing them.
6. 6Dave2South London's laureate — novelistic UK rap that fills stadiums without raising its voice, Mercury-winning storytelling with a pianist's touch.
7. 7Doechii2Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters — theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
8. 8Don Toliver2Sings trap like a psychedelic crooner — a warped, weightless voice floating over beats built for a stadium's worth of low end.
9. 9Playboi Carti2Stripped rap down to ad-libs, texture and menace, then built a decade of imitators out of the wreckage — the vampiric centre of modern rage rap.
10. 10Stray Kids2K-pop's most self-produced group — noisy, maximalist records written and arranged largely in-house, stadium-scale chaos by design.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

1. 1Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 22hollis7Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience — icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
3. 3Clipse7Pusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
4. 4LYNY6Textural, psychedelic bass music — heavy without being blunt about it.
5. 5P.O.D.6'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' — San Diego's nu-metal survivors, positivity intact through every scene cycle.
6. 6Doechii5Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters — theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
7. 7Ecca Vandal5Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
8. 8Fakemink5UK underground rap's internet-native riser — lo-fi menace and offhand melody built for the timeline, low-lit tracks that travel by repost.
9. 9ISOxo5Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes — bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
10. 10Limp Bizkit5Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.

Most favorited by readers

The Hip-Hop people here actually listen to, booked or not.

1. 1DrakeToronto rapper and singer who made the sung-rapped hook standard, moving between dancehall, Memphis rap and late-night confessional over a decade of chart dominance.
2. 2Kendrick LamarCompton rapper whose dense, character-driven records turned West Coast storytelling into something closer to theatre. The only rapper with a Pulitzer.
3. 3Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
4. 4ClipsePusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
5. 5J. ColeFayetteville rapper and producer who builds his own beats and sells millions without guest features, writing long autobiographical verses about class and doubt.
6. 6JAY-ZMarcy Projects rapper turned mogul, still the sharpest technician of his generation over soul loops chopped up high and fast.

Most saved to a plan

The Hip-Hop acts people are building a Saturday around.

1. 1Kooley HighRaleigh's veteran hip-hop crew — warm, sample-driven North Carolina boom-bap with deep local roots and Little Brother lineage in the DNA.
2. 2OddiseeProlific DC rapper-producer whose warm, jazz-laced boom-bap and live band Good Compny make thinking-person's rap groove — craft over hype, always.
3. 3Black MilkDetroit beat-scene heavyweight — Dilla-lineage production with hard-hitting drums, often backed live by his band Nat Turner for a hip-hop set that swings like a fusion gig.
4. 4JooselordRaleigh's mosh-pit rap general — metal-adjacent, high-adrenaline hip-hop engineered for chaos in small rooms, and a local legend for it.
5. 5wav.ylivingRaleigh rapper, producer, and designer Dom — laid-back lifestyle hip-hop where everything is curated for an immaculate, elevated vibe, scene-building included.
6. 6ClipsePusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
7. 7GunnaAtlanta's melodic-trap stylist — liquid flows and designer-drip anthems, delivered with barely a raised pulse and total control.
8. 8Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
9. 9Wu-Tang ClanNine MCs over dusty kung-fu-flick soul loops — still the most-imitated blueprint in rap, '36 Chambers' eternal.

All 236 Hip-Hop acts

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