This summer time Rhyme Fest will host its eleventh annual celebration on the iconic LA Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, August 17, 2024. This main milestone occasion will likely 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- 12 months profession. Recognized for his or her susceptible lyrics, genre-pushing manufacturing, and everyman sensibilities, these quiet titans have launched 13 beloved tasks and dozens of basic tracks championed by the tradition worldwide. Rhyme Fest is ecstatic to deliver Ambiance’s charming stage present to the Los Angeles hip hop group. Tickets obtainable solely on Ticketmaster!
Additionally commanding this 12 months’s pageant, Rhyme Fest is proud to announce performances by Dilated Peoples, Dwelling Legends, Visionaries, Freestyle Fellowship, Funkdoobiest, Venture 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 Skills, A-F-R-O & 60East, Coyote, Quantity 10, Self Provoked, Communicate, and several other extra 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 can be a part of our universe which can be all the time featured at our occasions. Some are in home DJs and a few are MCs that we contemplate part of the Rhyme Fest household. Rhyme Fest is a gathering for the hip hop heads so it’s vital 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 12 months’s Rhyme Fest represents a major 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 Middle in Hollywood and was headlined by KRS-One and The Visionaries. This 12 months Rhyme Fest expects 10,000 hip hop heads to have a good time all components of the tradition within the LA Memorial Coliseum. So together with the timeless tracks, brolic beats, and breathtaking performances which have turn into synonymous with the Rhyme Fest model, graffiti, break dancing, and DJing are positioned on a pedestal as properly.
“The entire objective of Rhyme Fest is to include all components of hip hop and to domesticate and develop the hip hop group,” Dos Santos says. “This 12 months will boast a graffiti village space the place 30 artists will create reside 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 way in which up till at this time. Apart from the music this 12 months, one other dope factor that you could count on at Rhyme Fest is the entire graffiti space and quite a lot of artwork.”
