This summer Rhyme Fest will host its 11th annual celebration at the iconic LA Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, August 17, 2024. This major milestone event will be headlined by Minnesota's incomparable hip-hop duo Atmosphere. Comprised of Slug (rapper) and Ant (DJ/producer), Atmosphere have created a legacy embedded in the talisman of underground hip-hop over their 27-year career. Known for their vulnerable lyrics, genre-bending production and everyman sensibilities, these quiet titans have released 13 beloved projects and dozens of classics that have been embraced by cultures around the world. Rhyme Fest is ecstatic to bring the captivating atmosphere of Atmosphere to the Los Angeles hip hop community. Tickets available exclusively at Ticketmaster!
Also curating this year's festival, Rhyme Fest is proud to announce performances from Distant Peoples, Living Legends, Visionaries, Freestyle Fellowship, Funkdoobiest, Blown project30th Anniversary Show, Wise Francis, The Shape Shifters, The LA Accord 25th Anniversary Show, Planet Asia, Daydream, DJ QBert, Demrick & Dizzy Wright, DJ Nu-Mark (of J5), DJ skills, AFRO & 60East, Coyote, Volume 10, Self-inflicted, Speakand several additional artists who are fondly considered part of the “Rhyme Fest Universe.”
“We're building a Rhyme Fest universe,” says founder Rafael “Scooby” Dos Santos. “We have our characters that are part of our universe that always appear at our events. Some are in house DJs and some are MCs that we consider to be part of the Rhyme Fest family. Rhyme Fest is a gathering for hip-hop heads, so it's important to have the people who helped us build Rhyme Fest from the ground up still a part of it and represented on the lineup.”
About Rhyme Fest
This year's Rhyme Fest represents a major step forward for hip hop's premier festival. The first Rhyme Fest took place on November 15, 2013 at the 500-seat Ukrainian Cultural Center in Hollywood and was headlined by KRS-One and The Visionaries. This year Rhyme Fest expects 10,000 hip hop heads to celebrate all elements of the culture at the LA Memorial Coliseum. So alongside the timeless tracks, brolic beats and exciting performances that have become synonymous with the Rhyme Fest brand, graffiti, break dancing and DJing are also placed on a pedestal.
“The purpose of Rhyme Fest is to incorporate all elements of hip hop and to cultivate and grow the hip hop community,” says Dos Santos. “This year it will boast a graffiti village area where 30 artists will create live paintings, for example. These are artists that started out of the LA graffiti scene—graphic artists from the 1980s, early 1990s, late 1990s to today. Besides the music this year, another dope thing you can expect at Rhyme Fest is the whole graffiti area and lots of art.”
